Tom Scott’s most viewed videos of 2015
Lifetime totals, not views in this range.
Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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Sinking Ship Simulator: The Royal Navy's Damage Repair Instructional Unit
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Why I Can't Show You The H******** S***
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The Link That Can Crash Chrome: http://a/%%30%30
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So You've Learned To Teleport
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The Human-Powered, Giant Theme Park Playground: Ai Pioppi
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The secret underground pipeline across Britain
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7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election
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The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard
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How Green Screen Worked Before Computers
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Paternoster Lifts: Dangerous, Obsolete and Quite Fun (including over the top!)
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Why Can't Adults Learn Languages Like Children?
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Why Computers Suck At Translation
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What Counts as a Word?
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Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel
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How The Rosetta Stone Unlocked Hieroglyphics
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The world's largest indoor waterpark
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Seeing Other People's Steam Accounts: The Christmas Caching Catastrophe
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The Bielefeld Conspiracy
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The Effective Power Bug: Why Can Weird Text Crash Your iPhone?
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The Moonpig Bug: How 3,000,000 Customers' Details Were Exposed
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The Magic Roundabout: Swindon's Terrifying Traffic Circle and Emergent Behaviour
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How To Visit Svalbard
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Risk, Immortality, and the Terrifying Pulpit Rock
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Big Industrial Simulators in Finland
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Why The Prime Meridian Isn't At 0º
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The Collapsed Dam That Stopped Los Angeles
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How to Visit Chernobyl
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Long and Short Words: Language Typology
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The Most Complex Borders in Europe: Why Do We Have Nations?
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A Christmas Computer Bug, and the Future of Files
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The Toxic Blue Lagoon of Buxton
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The Islands Where Guns are Required
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How The Netherlands Stopped The Wind
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The Abandoned Village of Imber: How Far Can Emergency Powers Go?
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Britain's End-of-the-World Bunkers
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The Fictional Bridges That Became Real
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Crash Blossoms and Being Drunk: Ambiguity
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Why Leap Seconds Cause Glitches
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Ships, Mines and Magnetism
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The Sightlines of London
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The Man Who Had Himself Taxidermied: Jeremy Bentham
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The Strange St Pauli Elbtunnel
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The Russian Woodpecker of Chernobyl: How To See Over The Horizon
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The Weirdest Bridge in Wales: The Newport Transporter Bridge
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The SS Bessemer and Ask Heaves: Citation Needed 3x01
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A Message from Earth and Flappy Gloves: Citation Needed 2x04
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Sergeant Reckless and Terry Google: Citation Needed 3x03
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Real Life Emoji Keyboard!
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The Giant Cranes and Robots That Keep Civilisation Running
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Sidney Weltmer and the Queen's Package: Citation Needed 3x04