Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today's TikToks

Irish artist Niall de Buitléar's eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices...

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Toyo Ito's Expo Hall "Shining Hat" looks like a portal opening in the sky

This structure called Expo Hall, or "Shining Hat", creates a stunning optical illusion in the sky....

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Cat goes full threat-mode over owner's cat-shaped slippers

In this video, a cat makes it clear that there is no way in hell it will share a home with the...

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Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming

This video shows a tame crow perched on a person's lap in a workshop, getting its feathers brushed....

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Ancient Loops turns the Playdate's crank into a sound instrument

The Playdate's hand crank was built for games, but it keeps luring developers to go weird. Ancient...

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For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn

The Colossi of Memnon are "two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III" that have stood on...

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Mysterious glowing balls rise from the Mekong every year

Every year around the end of the Buddhist Lent, crowds gather along the Mekong River to watch the...

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The masked prisoner of Louis XIV whose name was never spoken

The Man in the Iron Mask was "an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV of...

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There is a real Swiss political party devoted to abolishing PowerPoint

The Anti-PowerPoint Party is a real Swiss political party "dedicated to decreasing professional use...

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The schizophrenic Chicago artist who became an outsider rock legend

Wesley Willis was "an American musician and visual artist" from Chicago who, after being "diagnosed...

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For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee

For three decades, a Hollywood director who wanted to disown a film could take his name off it and...

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For 60 years, an 84-year-old has let a deck of cards build his map

Jerry Gretzinger is 84, and for most of the past six decades he has spent nearly every day adding...

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A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant

The Kőbánya cellar system under the 10th district of Budapest is, according to...

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In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon

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