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Tom Scott

741 videos · 22 shorts · 3x a month

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This machine breaks things.

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Clocks are so much more interesting than I thought.

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Why robots still can't pick strawberries

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In this arcade, you drop metal balls on rich people.

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When I blow this whistle, a swimming pool appears.

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Can I get into the Top 100 of tiddlywinks in one day?

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Thomas, a tank engine, is not Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Flying a plane badly, on purpose.

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This Mars rover's cool. But have you seen its wheels?

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How do you keep 8,995 codebreakers secret?

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This 100-year-old ride must never change again.

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Turns out building dry stone walls is difficult

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I'm so glad this hidden monorail broke down.

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I get excited about &.

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I have a weird conspiracy theory about this bridge

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If I get this wrong, 50,000 people will hear it.

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To help fire this trebuchet, I climbed inside it

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I got hit in the teeth at England's oldest ritual

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We can't invent a robot better than these ferrets

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I cannot believe Jodrell Bank let me do this

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Why do some British trains still rely on old levers?

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I took a long walk on a dangerous beach.

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The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe

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I should not have liked the world’s first smart home.

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If you found candy with my name in it, here's why.

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Hello from inside a tiny boat.

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I was not prepared for a mannequin that can bleed.

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These people walk towards mining disasters.

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"I feel like I've just destroyed evidence!"

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They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here's how.

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I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay.

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I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.

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After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos.

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People are going to be angry about pylons.

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Why the government drops flies on California

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A robot just swapped my electric car's battery

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Why don't subtitles match dubbing?

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Why use many streetlights when one will do?

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These tiny ships have a serious purpose

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Every mistake I've made since 2014.

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Does the language you speak change how you think?

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Boarding planes could have been very different

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0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.

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there’dn’t’ve

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I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.

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The largest telescope that will ever be built*

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Spherical houses weren't a great idea.

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How languages steal words from each other

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This library has every book ever published.

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Why are adverts so loud?

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This man built his office inside an elevator

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No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.

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This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.

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This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)

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Storing dead people at -196°C

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A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie

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Grizzly bear GoPro selfie: raw unedited footage

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If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.

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I thought this rotating house was impossible.

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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?

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The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains

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The cable car that you pedal by hand

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I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator

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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)

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This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel

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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought

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The people who get paid to get sick

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The world's cleanest railway

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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese

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The military base where you drive over the runway

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It's the Matrix, but for locusts.

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This tiny hovercraft went viral.

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I rode the world's fastest train.

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I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage

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This bus transforms into a train

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Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel

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The city with a hundred private cable cars

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This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.

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This café sends food through pneumatic tubes

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I tried using AI. It scared me.

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Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.

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Why Australia bottles up its air

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I took a ride on a moving radio telescope

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These chickens save lives.

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This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically

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The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well

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Doing robotic surgery on a copy of myself

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I was wrong (and so was everyone)

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The US government is giving out free wasps

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Firing radioactive stuff at high speed under city streets

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Cheap, renewable, clean energy. There's just one problem.

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Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?

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This river can be switched on and off

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This electric ferry uses a very long extension cord

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Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?

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The government approves of this shark now.

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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world

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Keeping the world's longest railroad tunnel safe

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I finally found a useful monorail.

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I thought the treadmill crane was fictional.