This is the BelAZ 75600, Russia's largest dump truck, getting loaded up with rocks at the Bachatsky coal mine in Siberia. Nothing unexpected happens in this video. I just love it because I am secretly five years old.

Most larger-than-life leaders need to invent stories about their larger-than-life accomplishments. Not Vladimir Putin: When he says he taught birds how to fly south for the winter, believe it.

This thing? I found it inside an abandoned square-mile Soviet-era military factory in Siberia. It would have worn a gas mask to help illustrate to workers proper safety protocols upon nuclear war with America. Now, it's just another artifact of the USSR's once mighty military machine.

Back in July, I rolled a Ural sidecar into a ditch off road and pretty much snapped my left wrist in half. Last week, I rode one for the first time since that accident. In Siberia. In the snow. In sub-zero temperatures. Was it scary? Absolutely. But no other vehicle could have gotten me here.

What the Soviets lacked in ability for effective governance, they made up for in ballsy engineering prowess. Really, who else would think to pack two nuclear reactors into a ship and set it loose in the Arctic breaking ice? The North Koreans? Psshhh, not likely.

To promote his business, a Siberian entrepreneur had his pilot turn his helicopter into a butler — opening bottles, delivering drinks and finally shaving a volunteer's stubble with a razor. Impaled by a rotor/is no way to die/but all the girls/will say you look fly/Chopper Shave.