Norway’s $47BN Coastal Highway | The B1M

Wow. Talk about a massive undertaking. This video has been viewed over 1M times in less than a week...

The Norwegian government are embarking on the largest infrastructure project in the country's history.

The B1M

This Is Where Your Wine Corks Come From

Look at them skin that tree! No one ever thinks about the cork - other than popping it. After watching this video, perhaps you'll think differently...

Uncorking a bottle of wine after a long day is one of the few true pleasures in life. But ever wonder where that small cork—aka the last thing standing between you and your favorite red—comes from? In Portugal, there’s a long and rich history of harvesting cork trees. Harvesters strip trees of their bark by hand, using a process that makes certain the tree remains alive and healthy. The method is so difficult that harvesters begin learning the trade from a young age, keeping up a skill passed down through the generations. So, the next time you kick back with a bottle of wine, give that pesky cork a second glance—its journey from bark to bottle is more surprising than you think.

Great Big Story

Why you shouldn't drive slowly in the left lane

Yes, some people actually do this...

Can we all agree that the left lane is for passing, please?

Vox

Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Why can't we fly a plane into space ?

We kind of know why but this video explains it superbly!

Why can’t we fly a plane into space, what stops it from just flying higher and higher until we are in space?
Well, there several issues but assuming we are in something like a normal jet airliner, then one of the main problems is the air, or lack of it as we get closer to space.

Curious Droid

What Would Happen If We Drained the Mediterranean Sea?

At first, it sounds like a crazy idea but a German architect back in the 1920s had a similar idea illustrating how this could be possible with his gigantic engineering and colonization idea called 'Atlantropa'...

RealLifeLore

This incredible animation shows how deep the ocean really is

We love this kind of animated stuff. It makes understanding things so much easier...

Just how deep does the ocean go? Way further than you think. This animation puts the actual distance into perspective, showing a vast distance between the waves we see and the mysterious point we call Challenger Deep.

Tech Insider

Why there are mysterious giant arrows across the US

To show the aliens how to get to Area 51?...

In the 1920s, the US government started delivering mail by plane. But planes could only travel during the day. Delivering a letter from coast to coast required a plane and then a train that would travel at night.

Business Insider

✈ Shortest runway in the world ! (HD 1080p) ✔

We've seen the world's shortest international flight, now check out one of the world's shortest commercial runway located on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba at Yrausquin Airport, named after the Aruban Minister Juancho Irausquin...

Shortest runway in the world! HD 1080p, landing and take off, Saba airport (Yrausquin Airport)

The airport's risky reputation arises from the airport's physical position: it is flanked on one side by high hills; and on the runway's other side and both ends, cliffs drop into the sea. Additionally, the runway at the airport is extremely short (400m) this creates the possibility that an airplane could under/overshoot the runway during landing or takeoff and end up in the sea or dashed on the rocky cliffs.

Eli van Witsen

Although the airport is officially marked as closed to traffic (X), regional airline propeller aircraft are able to land there under waivers from The Netherlands Antilles' Civil Aviation Authority. The most common aircraft to land there are the Twin Otter and BN-2 Islander

Jet aircraft are unable to land at the airport, because the runway is too short (approx. 1,300 ft or 396 m). However, smaller airplanes (DHC-6, BN-2 and helicopters) are common sights there. There is a small ramp and terminal on the southwest flank of the runway. The ramp also has a designated helipad. The terminal building houses offices for Winair, immigration and security, a fire department with one fire truck and a tower. The tower is an advisory service only and does not provide air traffic control. Aviation fuel is not available on the island of Saba.

The only airline currently serving Yrausquin Airport is locally owned Winair, which operates daily flights to Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius aboard a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter.

These Are The World's Oldest Countries (+ Newest)

Italy? Surprisingly, no middle-eastern countries were mentioned...

China celebrates its founding year as 221 BC, but there might be a country that's even older. What are the world's oldest countries?

Seeker Daily

What Are the World’s Newest Countries?

In 2016, South Sudan will turn just five-years-old. The new country has spent decades fighting for its independence. So what are some of the other countries that recently obtained autonomy?

How Far Away Can You Get From Everybody Else?

Would you like to be able to get as far away as possible from the rest of the world??...

How far away can you possibly get from every other human on the planet? The answer is actually quite far, there are a lot of extremely remote places left in the world and some of them have actually yet to be reached by anybody in all of history.

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