Tom Scott
@tomscottgo · 6.7M subscribers
Tom Scott’s most viewed videos of 2023
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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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I tried using AI. It scared me.
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I thought this rotating house was impossible.
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I rode the world's fastest train.
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Spherical houses weren't a great idea.
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This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
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I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.
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0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
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there’dn’t’ve
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I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
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The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
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Why use many streetlights when one will do?
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Boarding planes could have been very different
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This man built his office inside an elevator
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Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.
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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
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The largest telescope that will ever be built*
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It's the Matrix, but for locusts.
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Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel
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Storing dead people at -196°C
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Why are adverts so loud?
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This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
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This tiny hovercraft went viral.
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Every mistake I've made since 2014.
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This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
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If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
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This library has every book ever published.
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Why the government drops flies on California
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A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
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People are going to be angry about pylons.
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This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically
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Why don't subtitles match dubbing?
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This café sends food through pneumatic tubes
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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
- Rank 34:
The world's cleanest railway
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The city with a hundred private cable cars
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Why Australia bottles up its air
- Rank 37:
This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
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The people who get paid to get sick
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The military base where you drive over the runway
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I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
- Rank 41:
A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
- Rank 42:
How languages steal words from each other
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These tiny ships have a serious purpose
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This bus transforms into a train
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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
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Does the language you speak change how you think?
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No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.
- Rank 48:
I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage
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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
- Rank 50:
The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well