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Veritasium’s most viewed videos of 2026
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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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What happens if you cut the green rope?
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The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine
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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew
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The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
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Why Cold Drinks Were Deadly Before 1914
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What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?
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Can something go faster than it’s pushed?
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What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?
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What does asbestos do to a person?
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Do we know how magnets work yet?
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The Crystal That Could Destroy All Medicine
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The Absurd Engineering Behind the Internet
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We Made A Giant Zipper To Explain How It Works
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Is spider web really stronger than steel?
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How easy is it to steal $10,000 from a locked phone?
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The Most Radioactive Place On Earth
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This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50
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Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain
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This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...
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The Most Dangerous Escalator In Europe
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Rubber used to be useless…
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You Can't Feel Wet
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Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?
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We're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove it
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The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering
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The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
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How Pressure Can Come From *Nothing*
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Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top
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Why don't trains make *that* sound anymore?
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We Took $10,000 From @mkbhd's Locked iPhone
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Zippers are stronger than you think...
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How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips
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How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster
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How does light 'know' the shortest path?
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World’s Largest Spiderweb
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The Shadow Illusion
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AD - Why do I get this spark when I unplug my hair dryer?
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You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
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The World's Heaviest Weight
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The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies
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What is edge dislocation?
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The Crazy Physics of Jet Engines
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The CIA's new tech doesn't make sense
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How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable
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A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong...
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We sent a camera to space to film the solar eclipse
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We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years
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How do submarines know where they are?
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AD - Why are plants colder than their surroundings?