Tom Scott’s most viewed videos of 2018
Lifetime totals, not views in this range.
Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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We Sent Garlic Bread to the Edge of Space, Then Ate It
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The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle
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If Educational Videos Were Filmed Like Music Videos
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G-force, jerk, and a giant centrifuge
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Testing the world's longest echo
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2½ Hours of Unedited Garlic Bread Flight Footage
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The giant freezer that tests winter boots
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The US president has a bulletproof railcar
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What's The Longest Word You Can Write With Seven-Segment Displays?
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Testing the sound mirrors that protected Britain
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Why Computers Can't Count Sometimes
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⚫ How The Black Point Message Crashes Android Apps
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That Time I Got In Trouble With The Government
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How the 90s VHS look works
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The moiré effect lights that guide ships home
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How the first ever telecoms scam worked
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᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜
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The canyon that humans made by accident
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Making an international standard cup of tea
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Making 200,000 tons of arsenic dust safe
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European clocks ran slow for a bit. British clocks didn't.
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Why NASA Spun Astronauts Around, But Doesn't Any More
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Britain's largest battery is actually a lake
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I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
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The Quiz That Was Shared A Million Times
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Making artificial earthquakes with a huge steel ball
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The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century
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Why You Don't Want To Go Viral
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Why do London's manholes keep exploding?
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The Consequences of Your Code
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The city of golf carts
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A Town Called Asbestos
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Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
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Your New Social Credit Score
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An American Stonehenge: The Mysterious Georgia Guidestones
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The other tree that owns itself
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The town that was burned for science
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The collapsible crash-test robot car
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This city centre has no street names
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The Norwegian Butter Crisis and the Ark of Taste: Citation Needed 8x02
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Juan Pujol Garcia and Thirtynineitude: Citation Needed 8x03
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The Battle of Fishguard and "Brandy": Citation Needed 8x01
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There's a mermaid show in Florida
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Hail Cannons and Operation Popeye: Citation Needed 8x04
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How formation flying works
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The Crazy Eights Incident and the Pumpy Thing: Citation Needed 8x05
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The Sweater Curse and Clothing Controversies: Citation Needed 8x06
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Your private messages travel under this beach
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Wingwalking used to be a lot more dangerous
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This nuclear reactor is run by students