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Trending City of Samba

Tilt shift photography is the art of making videos and photos appear miniature and toy-like. The art form has gained a lot of popularity in the last year, but the latest tilt shift sensation to hit the web is one of the best yet. The short film is titled "The City of Samba", in which this year's Carnaval party in Rio de Janeiro is captured and edited to appear as though it were performed by ants. The video, the colors, and the music choice make this piece very entertaining. Enjoy!

Trending Dolphin Stampede

A massive pod of dolphins made for a spectacular show just off of Laguna Beach, California.

Trending What Are Years?

A short scientific breakdown of what constitutes a year here on earth, as well as what a year looks like in other parts of the universe.

Trending Gambling Cat

OK. I've got my money on the cat.

Trending Mayan Light Beam

Is it alien contact? A sign of the End of Days? Or was it a smart phone glitch?

An image showing a beam of light descending from the sky and onto a pyramid in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza has taken the web by storm. Hector Siliezar snapped the picture on his iPhone when he visited the ruins with his family back in 2009. The beam of light seems to come down on top of El Castillo, a pyramid once serving as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan.

Siliezar is quoted as saying that he didn't see the light beam in person. In fact, a storm was brewing at the time and he wanted to take a picture to capture the lightning dancing across the sky. In the first two pictures he took, nothing was amiss. However, the third picture is where the light beam can be seen.

So was it a sign from an ancient god or a distortion in the image from a lightning bolt that caused the beam to appear? Either way, the picture is pretty cool.

Trending World Record Paper Airplane

The new world record for a paper airplane flight (once verified by Guinness) is 226 feet, 10 inches - breaking the previous world record by 19 feet. The previous record was 207 feet and 4 inches set by Stephen Kreiger in 2003.

Trending Optical Illusion

200 tiny white squares are slowly placed on specific spots on a checkered pattern, causing the pattern to appear as being warped.

Trending Leap Year Explained

Have you ever wondered about the importance of leap year? Check out the video above for a thorough explanation of our imperfect calendar system.

Trending Start FAIL

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Trending Facebook Troll

So a report from the FAKE news network The Onion is making its way around Facebook, and it's apparently freaking some people out. Again, this is NOT real... but it IS funny.