Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell’s most viewed videos of all time
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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
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The Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection
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What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)
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The Egg - A Short Story
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The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison
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The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)
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The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
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What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
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The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison
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Why Black Holes Could Delete The Universe – The Information Paradox
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Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
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Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death
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The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
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What if We Nuke a City?
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Three Ways to Destroy the Universe
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The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant
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Loneliness
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Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
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Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox
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String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality?
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How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE
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What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea
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Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime
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How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
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What Happened Before History? Human Origins
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The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe - Strange Stars Explained
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This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)
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Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes
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TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
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Milk. White Poison or Healthy Drink?
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute
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How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
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What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth?
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The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth
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Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
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Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument
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What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
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This Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane Method
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AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?
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What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
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What if We Nuke the Moon?
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The Deadly Power of a Coin-Sized Black Hole
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You Are Immune Against Every Disease
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How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
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Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology
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What If You Fall into a Black Hole?
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How to Cut a Sandwich Perfectly – With Science
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The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware
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Optimistic Nihilism
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What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1