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Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

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4 min

S2023 · E1 · Jan 9, 2023

This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically Episode 1

The Great Scenic Railway, at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia, is the second oldest rollercoaster in the world: and it's one of only a few which still uses a manual brake.

3 min

S2023 · E2 · Jan 16, 2023

These chickens save lives. Episode 2

"Sentinel chickens" are an early-warning system against some nasty mosquito-borne diseases. I visited a flock in New South Wales, Australia.

9 min

S2023 · E3 · Feb 27, 2023

This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway. Episode 3

The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can't be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that

6 min

S2023 · E4 · Apr 10, 2023

This tiny hovercraft went viral. Episode 4

Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft.

6 min

S2023 · E5 · May 1, 2023

How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese Episode 5

Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures... just in käse

8 min

S2023 · E6 · May 22, 2023

Shake tables are way more complex than I thought Episode 6

At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world.

7 min

S2023 · E7 · May 29, 2023

This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel Episode 7

The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind tunnel but in reverse. So rather than just show it to the world, I thought l'd answer a question: if you stick a camera on the outside of your car, how much does the drag cost you?

6 min

S2023 · E8 · Jun 5, 2023

No-one knows how explosions work (yet) Episode 8

The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it.

4 min

S2023 · E9 · Jun 26, 2023

Climbing frames were meant to hack kids' brains Episode 9

Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking.

8 min

S2023 · E10 · Jul 3, 2023

How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910? Episode 10

Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B: a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.

6 min

S2023 · E11 · Jul 17, 2023

If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test. Episode 11

At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by actual bears.

7 min

S2023 · E12 · Jul 24, 2023

A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie Episode 12

An unexpected update to the Bear test video

7 min

S2023 · E13 · Sep 4, 2023

Why are adverts so loud? Episode 13

This was so much more complex than I thought.

7 min

S2023 · E14 · Sep 11, 2023

This library has every book ever published Episode 14

The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK - and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. This video has a correction: it turns out the formal interview requirement for a reader pass has been dropped. However, you'll still need to get a pass, and you're not allowed to take books out of the reading rooms!

5 min

S2023 · E15 · Oct 23, 2023

0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving. Episode 15

AMZ Racing's "mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it.

5 min

S2023 · E16 · Oct 30, 2023

Boarding planes could have been very different Episode 16

There's a world in which everyone boards planes with "mobile lounges", PTVs, or Plane-Mates... but this is not that world.

5 min

S2023 · E17 · Nov 27, 2023

Why use many streetlights when one will do? Episode 17

The moonlight towers of Austin, Texas, are the last urban municipal lighting towers in the world: because before every street was wired to the grid, how else would you light up a city?

6 min

S2023 · E18 · Dec 18, 2023

Why the government drops flies on California Episode 18

There's a good reason for it.

7 min

S2023 · E19 · Dec 25, 2023

People are going to be angry about pylons. Episode 19

Britain's power grid is turning inside-out, which means pylons are about to become a lot more controversial in Britain. At the National Grid Training Centre, I climbed one.

19 episodes in Season 2023

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Cast

3 people

Matt Gray

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Tom Scott

Host

Rob Blake

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Total runtime 17h 52m · Episode length 4 min · Country United Kingdom

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Premiered

January 1, 2014

Final episode

December 25, 2023

Status

Ended

Network

YouTube

Country

United Kingdom

Episode length

4 min

Total runtime

17h 52m

Original language

English

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