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Happy Hour In Africa

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Watch the elephants knock the fruit out of the tree and all the animals eat it off the ground.

This is a real video from a French documentary about Africa . You may not understand French, but the video is funny. There are trees that grow in Africa which, once a year, produce very juicy fruit that contain a high percentage of alcohol. The tree is known as the "Elephant Tree," because elephants have a fondness for the fruit. Because there is a shortage of water in that area, as soon as the fruits are ripe, animals come there to help relieve themselves of the heat. You will easily know who had over-indulged...on purpose or not!
PS. The tree is the Marula tree. You can buy a great liqueur named "Amarula," which is made with the fruit and cream.

Animals With a Sense of Humor

Jeb Corliss Wing-suit Demo

Jeb Corliss wing-suit demo from Jeb Corliss on Vimeo.

Time Lapse Video: Rapture

Tom Lowe is an amazing photographer who makes devastating, astonishing timelapse videos of the night sky. Once again, he does not disappoint. Here’s your must-see video of the day: Rapture.
Rapture is a paean to the American Southwest, one of my favorite regions on the planet. But the video’s loaded with gorgeous, sensuous astronomical skyscapes as well. Tom takes time exposures long enough to register faint night sky objects, but at the same time uses slow tracking to move the camera. The superposition of the ground and sky motion is simply mesmerizing. The music by Nigel "John" Stanford is incredibly compelling, too.
How many deep-sky objects can you identify in the video? The Andromeda Galaxy makes a brief appearance, and when the hub of the Milky Way slides across the sky, it’s awesome to behold.

FedEx ..... the real ending

You've probably seen the movie Castaway, where Tom Hanks played a FedEx employee who was stranded for years on a remote island, struggled to survive, and struggled to hold onto his sanity by talking to a volleyball he named " Wilson." Do you remember the FedEx box that survived the plane crash -- which Hanks was compelled to deliver after he was rescued? Did you ever wonder what was in that FedEx Box? Well, here is a FedEx commercial that answers the question.

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell

I know a lot of you are too young to remember this stuff but watch and see the definition of what being tight with flawless timing is all about.
ELEANOR POWELL was just too good.
FRED ASTAIRE never elected to be paired with her again.
He later said it was not to his benefit, she was just too great, but they were both great.
Frank Sinatra said we will not see the likes of this again.
Eleanor Powell is fully clothed with a dress below her knees, and in high heels,
sadly a bygone era of true beauty, civility and grace.

1. The year:1940 (71 years ago).
2. The narrator is Frank Sinatra.
3. It was filmed in ONE unedited camera shot! Amazing.