Things You Might Not Know

Tom Scott
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			The Runways of Fire That Let WW2 Planes Land In Fog: FIDO by Tom Scott			2:15
			Why Sci-Fi Alien Planets Look The Same: Hollywood's Thirty-Mile Zone by Tom Scott			2:08
			Voyager 1's Getting Closer to Earth Right Now by Tom Scott			3:26
			Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories by Tom Scott			4:18
			Why Song Translations Usually Suck by Tom Scott			4:25
			The Foil That Went To The Moon And Back by Tom Scott			4:54
			The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse by Tom Scott			4:21
			You Can Hear The Difference Between Hot and Cold Water by Tom Scott			2:38
			One Town, Four Elements: Ytterby by Tom Scott			2:16
			The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand by Tom Scott			3:22
			ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone by Tom Scott			2:39
			The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets by Tom Scott			3:13
			Fallout Shelters and Zurich's Water: Swiss Resilience by Tom Scott			2:10
			Why YouTube Streams Don't Count For Christmas № 1 by Tom Scott			3:21
			In Old Movies, Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up? by Tom Scott			3:16
			Wheels, Bombs, and Perpetual Motion Machines by Tom Scott			3:23
			The City of the Dead: Colma, California by Tom Scott			2:45
			The World's Most Famous Teapot: The Utah Teapot by Tom Scott			2:34
			3D Printing Stainless Steel with Giant Robot Arms by Tom Scott			4:51
			The Spider Dress That Reacts To Personal Space Invaders by Tom Scott			3:12
			The Grave of the Man Who Never Was: Operation Mincemeat by Tom Scott			3:17
			The Bizarre Plan to Drain the Mediterranean: Atlantropa by Tom Scott			3:29
			The Solar Power Towers of Southern Spain by Tom Scott			2:42
			Cold Wars, Cruise Ships, and the Northwest Passage by Tom Scott			4:28
			ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ and ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ by Tom Scott			4:06
			Internet to the Arctic: A Greenlandic Relay Station by Tom Scott			3:19
			No-One Knows Who Got To The North Pole First by Tom Scott			3:33
			The Front Falls Off: Glaciers Don't Go Backwards by Tom Scott			3:01
			Seeing Things: Visual Disturbances We All Experience by Tom Scott			3:44
			Why Mountain Dew Rots Your Teeth More Than Coca-Cola by Tom Scott			3:58
			The Battery That's Lasted 176 Years by Tom Scott			4:07
			The Problem With Renewable Energy (and how we're fixing it) by Tom Scott			4:06
			The Mushroom Cloud Over Britain: RAF Fauld and the Hanbury Crater by Tom Scott			4:42
			The Fake Vinegar In British Fish and Chip Shops by Tom Scott			2:15
			The Man Who Invented, Then Hated, Shopping Malls by Tom Scott			2:26
			Nobody's Exactly Sure How Much A Kilogram Is Right Now by Tom Scott			3:45
			The Flower That Smells Like Death by Tom Scott			2:55
			Why You Can't Advertise Cancer Cures In Britain by Tom Scott			3:07
			Help, My Fusion Reactor's Making A Weird Noise by Tom Scott			3:55
			In Norway, Everyone Can Know How Much You Earn by Tom Scott			3:13
			American Alcohol Has To Be Radioactive by Tom Scott			3:33
			Why You Should Write Down Your Goals by Tom Scott			2:28
			Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery by Tom Scott			3:28
			Power, Politics and Pragmatism: The British National Grid by Tom Scott			3:23
			What Counts as the World's Largest Clock? by Tom Scott			1:58
			How To Make Snow by Tom Scott			3:23
			Calling The Police Doesn't Charge Your Phone Battery by Tom Scott			2:46
			Crosswalks Don't Always Make You Safer by Tom Scott			2:11
			Why Britain Sucks At Product Placement by Tom Scott			5:18
			Automated Weapons and the Battlefield of 2050 by Tom Scott			3:18
			Drones, Deserts and Danger by Tom Scott			2:24
			How The Rosetta Stone Unlocked Hieroglyphics by Tom Scott			2:46
			The Collapsed Dam That Stopped Los Angeles by Tom Scott			3:18
			Why I Can't Show You The H****** S* by Tom Scott			2:25
			The Bielefeld Conspiracy by Tom Scott			2:21
			Britain's End-of-the-World Bunkers by Tom Scott			3:35
			The Man Who Had Himself Taxidermied: Jeremy Bentham by Tom Scott			4:00
			The Secret Underground Pipeline Across Britain by Tom Scott			2:42
			G-Forces, Gliders, and Graveyard Spirals by Tom Scott			2:59
			The Abandoned Village of Imber: How Far Can Emergency Powers Go? by Tom Scott			3:11
			Hovercraft, Concorde, and the Dreams of the 1970s by Tom Scott			2:41
			The Weirdest Bridge in Wales: The Newport Transporter Bridge by Tom Scott			2:21
			The Giant Cranes and Robots That Keep Civilisation Running by Tom Scott			3:59
			The Sightlines of London by Tom Scott			2:30
			The Toxic Blue Lagoon of Buxton by Tom Scott			1:35
			Paternoster Lifts: Dangerous, Obsolete and Quite Fun (including over the top!) by Tom Scott			1:55
			The Most Complex Borders in Europe: Why Do We Have Nations? by Tom Scott			2:51
			The Fictional Bridges That Became Real by Tom Scott			1:32
			How The Netherlands Stopped The Wind by Tom Scott			2:13
			Risk, Immortality, and the Terrifying Pulpit Rock by Tom Scott			3:02
			Ships, Mines and Magnetism by Tom Scott			2:30
			7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election by Tom Scott			3:30
			The 400,000,000-Year Link Between Scotland and Canada by Tom Scott			1:57
			How To Make Something One Atom Thick by Tom Scott			3:10
			Turnpikes and Tolls: What if all major roads were private? by Tom Scott			2:07
			How to Program a Quantum Computer (sort of) by Tom Scott			3:01
			The Driverless Cars of Greenwich by Tom Scott			2:13
			How Green Screen Worked Before Computers by Tom Scott			3:36
			How Many Colours Are In A Rainbow? by Tom Scott			2:25
			The British Rail Flying Saucer by Tom Scott			2:27
			The Magic Roundabout: Swindon's Terrifying Traffic Circle and Emergent Behaviour by Tom Scott			1:40
			Why The Prime Meridian Isn't At 0º by Tom Scott			3:14
			Why Doesn't Britain Have Rabies? by Tom Scott			2:17
			Can It Be "Too Cold To Snow"? by Tom Scott			2:20
			Ley Lines and Avebury Henge, the Better Version of Stonehenge by Tom Scott			2:28
			The Hottest Place in Britain, and the BBC Theme Park by Tom Scott			2:07
			The Concrete Pillars On Top Of British Hills: Trig Points by Tom Scott			1:43
			Why "Four Score and Seven Years Ago"? by Tom Scott			1:46
			The Floating Lighthouse in New York: The Lightship Ambrose by Tom Scott			1:57
			The Liquid Nitrogen Tanks of New York by Tom Scott			1:33
			The Diner Where You Microwaved Your Own Food by Tom Scott			1:50
			There's a Bit of England in New York, Literally by Tom Scott			1:26
			What Did Witches Actually Use? by Tom Scott			2:00
			The Man Who Set Up His Own Toll Road, Without Permission by Tom Scott			2:42
			Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps by Tom Scott			2:58
			How To Snap Someone's Neck by Tom Scott			2:01
			Scotland is Rising and England is Sinking, Literally by Tom Scott			1:56
			Ultrasonically Vaporized Vodka! by Tom Scott			3:04
			The Ice Bucket Challenge Lowers Your Heart Rate by Tom Scott			2:16
			How To Read Text In Binary by Tom Scott			3:29

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