Veritasium’s most viewed videos of 2025
Lifetime totals, not views in this range.
Snapshot from 18 Oct 2026.
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Can you swim in shade balls?
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The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
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The Biggest Chemical Coverup In History
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Why we put spiders on soccer balls
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Can You Keep Zooming In Infinitely?
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This Skyscraper Was Days From Collapsing And No One Knew
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Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
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Testing the US Military’s worst idea
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The Strangest Implication of Quantum Mechanics
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Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
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There Is Something Faster Than Light
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Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?
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The Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
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Renting A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
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The Most Controversial Idea In Math
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The most counterintuitive device you'll ever see
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The Biggest Misconception in Physics
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The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
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The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
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Why do all animals jump to about the same height?
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How this helicopter survived 1004 days on Mars, then disappeared...
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You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life Wrong
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Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?
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AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
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The Nobel prize has a dark history...
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The Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
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Why do planes fly so high?
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Can you solve this SAT question?
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Why Is MIT Making Robot Insects?
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Why is there antimatter?
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This is the natural disaster to worry about
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Why don't trains make that clacking noise anymore?
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The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
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How to solve any maze
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We don't understand how a football works (ft. Tom Brady)
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How To See Atoms
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The Most Controversial Idea In Biology
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There are 96 million black balls on this lake
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The blue LED was almost impossible to make
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Can you solve the prisoner's riddle?
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Seeing Inside A Thermite Reaction
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Why did light bulb lifetimes get shorter?
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Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong
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The Future of Veritasium
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How aerogel can make the ocean drinkable
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How To Solve a Quadratic Equation
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How Strong Is Super Glue?
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This Is The Perfect Bowling Strategy
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Why didn't this skateboard stunt start from the top?
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What Happens When You Spin a Football?