Tom Scott’s most viewed videos of 2020
Lifetime totals, not views in this range.
Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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This Video Has 77,292,145 Views
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Why you can't buy Dasani water in Britain
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YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.
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Why dark video is a terrible mess
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A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip
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Why You Can't Name A File CON In Windows
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Why You Can Spot Bad Green Screen
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Would you swim in power plant wastewater?
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I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.
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The Worst Typo I Ever Made
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Five Things You Can't Do On British Television
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The Hidden Rules of Conversation
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The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can
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1,204,986 Votes Decided: What Is The Best Thing?
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It’s pronounced GIF.
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The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing
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Why some "remastered" music videos look awful
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If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods.
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The Greatest Title Sequence I've Ever Seen
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How Weird Is My Audience? I Polled 15,408 People To Find Out
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Stopping A Laser Beam In Mid-Air
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Why this British crossroads was so dangerous
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Swimming between two continents, debunked
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This billion-euro nuclear reactor was never switched on
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We walked the most dangerous path in Britain
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Why The Web Is Such A Mess
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Which Is "Bouba", and Which Is "Kiki"?
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Britain once forgot how long an inch is
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Are There Problems That Computers Can't Solve?
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The country where all public transit is free
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Why My Teenage Code Was Terrible: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Notation
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Ə: The Most Common Vowel in English
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Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?
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Why You Should Turn On Two Factor Authentication
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The Abandoned Hill With Two Members Of Parliament
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The bridge that's in two countries at the same time
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The never-used road where the BBC crash cars
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Abso-b████y-lutely: Expletive Infixation
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The Village That The Luftwaffe Bombed By Mistake
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My unlicensed hovercraft bar is technically legal
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How Many Languages Are There?
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The theme park inside an old nuclear power plant
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The tiny monorails that once carried James Bond
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The Part Of Britain That Rises And Falls Twice A Day
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How Binary Search Makes Computers Much, Much Faster
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How England's Oldest Road Was Nearly Lost Forever
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The "first internet bench" probably wasn't
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DISCONNECTED with Jaiden Animations, Ellen Rose and Hank Green
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How Neurosurgeons Navigate Inside The Brain
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Why TRUE + TRUE = 2: Data Types