Youtube has long been a resource for videos that amuse, entertain, and outright surprise us. Covering the first half of 2016, this list chronicles the videos that have earned the most views thus far.
Incredible Whale Encounter
This video shows a gray whale pushing her calf out of the water seemingly to help it get a better view of onlookers.
Views: 10.3 million
Date: March 14, 2016
Snowboarder Girl Chased By Bear
Kelly Murphy seems pretty relaxed as she sings Rihanna’s “Work” while snowboarding. Apparently, she had no idea that a bear was chasing her as she went downhill.
Views: 8.9 million
Date: April 10, 2016
World’s Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot
Jay Flatland chronicles how as robot he built with his friend can solve a Rubik’s Cube in less than one second.
Views: 8.1 million
Date: January 11, 2016
Woman uses lighter while filling a car with gas
It’s also a testament to stupidity and a warning on what not to do when getting gas for your car.
Views: 7.5 million
Date: January 4, 2016
Helicopter Crash Pearl Harbor 2/18/16 10:15am ORIGINAL Eyewitness
At only 11 seconds long, the clip is pretty easy to watch over and over again due to its shock value.
Views: 6.8 million
Date: February 18, 2016
Zipper Merge
When a motorcycle rider isn’t allowed to merge on a zipper lane by a woman driving a Honda, he immediately reports the violation to a police vehicle and justice is swift to arrive.
Views: 5.4 million
Date: June 28, 2016
A very happy wolf
Lakomi the wolf was found surviving in the wild at eight months old. At the time of her rescue she was wearing a harness. Her skin had grown over the harness and removing it took hours of surgery and months of medication to fight an infection that nearly took her life.
Views: 5 million
Date: May 24, 2016
Crushing Nokia 3310 with a Hydraulic Press
For those of us who had the ubiquitous Nokia model in the early 2000s, watching this can be a traumatic experience.
Views: 4.5 million
Date: March 17, 2016
Drowning in Portsall, 16-02-08
A retired couple is swept away by a wave due to a storm. They were saved by a guy from Paris in vacation with his friend in Landéda area. A mechanic in Lannilis came to give a hand.
Views: 4.4 million
Date: February 8, 2016
Risks life to prove physical law
Physicist Andreas Wahl knows that things rotate faster when they approach a central point. Therefore he let himself be dropped 14 meters towards the ground only attached to a loose rope with a weight at the other end.
Views: 3.8 million
Date: January 3, 2016
