Things You Might Not Know
259 videos • 14,270,429 views • by Tom Scott
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People are going to be angry about pylons.
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Why the government drops flies on California
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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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0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
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This library has every book ever published.
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Why are adverts so loud?
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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
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The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
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This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
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This tiny hovercraft went viral.
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This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
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These chickens save lives.
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This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically
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The US government is giving out free wasps
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Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?
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The government approves of this shark now.
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Keeping the world's longest railroad tunnel safe
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Why do YouTubers clap at the start of videos?
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This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes
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How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
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This clock was famous, but the internet ruined it.
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The massive Fatigue Carousel helps keep roads safe
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I flew with birds. You can too.
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How does Britain know what time it is?
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Reopening an airport terminal is harder than you might think
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The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire
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There's a £100,000 coin buried under this London building
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The hidden background noise that can catch criminals
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The world's most expensive object by weight
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An actual, real-world use for robot dogs
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The Islands With Too Much Power
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The Shocking New Use for Red Telephone Boxes
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History forgot these old fireworks. We recreated them.
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The world's last turntable ferry has a really clever design
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The long-forgotten history of the British moon spacesuit
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I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.
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Why Hollywood explosions don't look like real explosions
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THIS VIDEO IS WRONG: Why 18th-Century Firefighters Let Some Buildings Burn
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Hill Hill Hill Hill, debunked, debunked
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Five Things You Can't Do On British Television
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My unlicensed hovercraft bar is technically legal
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The tiny monorails that once carried James Bond
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Would you swim in power plant wastewater?
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The Part Of Britain That Rises And Falls Twice A Day
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Britain once forgot how long an inch is
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The Village That The Luftwaffe Bombed By Mistake
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How England's Oldest Road Was Nearly Lost Forever
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Why some "remastered" music videos look awful
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Why this British crossroads was so dangerous
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Why dark video is a terrible mess
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Why you can't buy Dasani water in Britain
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How Neurosurgeons Navigate Inside The Brain
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I visited the US National Helium Reserve
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The elevator shaft was invented before the elevator
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Why Helsinki's library robots aren't important
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What counts as the world's shortest river?
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Flying a plane with fireworks on the wings
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How to stop a colossal bridge corroding
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Mr Olds' remarkable elevator
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The brain-eating amoebas of Kerosene Creek
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Where two oceans meet, debunked
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How Auto-Tune Works
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How to slow down a stock exchange
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This Is Your Brain On Stale Air
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How Knot To Hang A Painting
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The Fishermen That Hold Their Breath For 10 Minutes
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Why NASA Spun Astronauts Around, But Doesn't Any More
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The other tree that owns itself
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Britain's largest battery is actually a lake
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Why do London's manholes keep exploding?
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᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜
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Wingwalking used to be a lot more dangerous
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Your private messages travel under this beach
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How the 90s VHS look works
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We Should Let Some Wildfires Burn
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The sourtoe cocktail has a human toe in it
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How planes stay safe over the Atlantic
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Making an international standard cup of tea
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How formation flying works
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European clocks ran slow for a bit. British clocks didn't.
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The moiré effect lights that guide ships home
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Canada's Most Successful King
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A Language Made Of Music
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Sign Language Isn't Universal
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The null hypothesis
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Batman's village of fools
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Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.
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What Is Sea Level, Anyway?
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The centuries-old debt that's still paying interest
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The US government will sell you freeze-dried urine
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What counts as a mountain?
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I can't show you how pink this pink is.
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Why old screens make a ʰᶦᵍʰ ᵖᶦᵗᶜʰᵉᵈ noise
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The Runways of Fire That Let WW2 Planes Land In Fog: FIDO
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Why sci-fi alien planets all look the same
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Voyager 1's Getting Closer to Earth Right Now
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Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories
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Why Song Translations Usually Suck
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The Foil That Went To The Moon And Back
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The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
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You Can Hear The Difference Between Hot and Cold Water
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One Town, Four Elements: Ytterby
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The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand
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ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone
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The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets
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Fallout Shelters and Zurich's Water: Swiss Resilience
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Why YouTube Streams Don't Count For Christmas № 1
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In Old Movies, Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?
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Wheels, Bombs, and Perpetual Motion Machines
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The City of the Dead: Colma, California
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The World's Most Famous Teapot: The Utah Teapot
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3D Printing Stainless Steel with Giant Robot Arms
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The Spider Dress That Reacts To Personal Space Invaders
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The Grave of the Man Who Never Was: Operation Mincemeat
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The Bizarre Plan to Drain the Mediterranean: Atlantropa
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The Solar Power Towers of Southern Spain
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Cold Wars, Cruise Ships, and the Northwest Passage
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ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ and ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ
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Internet to the Arctic: A Greenlandic Relay Station
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No-One Knows Who Got To The North Pole First
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The Front Falls Off: Glaciers Don't Go Backwards
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Seeing Things: Visual Disturbances We All Experience
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Why Mountain Dew Rots Your Teeth More Than Coca-Cola
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The Battery That's Lasted 176 Years
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The Problem With Renewable Energy (and how we're fixing it)
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The Mushroom Cloud Over Britain: RAF Fauld and the Hanbury Crater
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The Fake Vinegar In British Fish and Chip Shops
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The Man Who Invented, Then Hated, Shopping Malls
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Nobody's Exactly Sure How Much A Kilogram Is Right Now
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The Flower That Smells Like Death
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Why You Can't Advertise Cancer Cures In Britain
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Help, My Fusion Reactor's Making A Weird Noise
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In Norway, Everyone Can Know How Much You Earn
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Why You Should Write Down Your Goals
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Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery
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Power, Politics and Pragmatism: The British National Grid
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What Counts as the World's Largest Clock?
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How To Make Snow
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Calling The Police Doesn't Charge Your Phone Battery
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Crosswalks Don't Always Make You Safer
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Why Britain Sucks At Product Placement
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Automated Weapons and the Battlefield of 2050
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Drones, Deserts and Danger
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How The Rosetta Stone Unlocked Hieroglyphics
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The Collapsed Dam That Stopped Los Angeles
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Why I Can't Show You The H******** S***
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The Bielefeld Conspiracy
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Britain's End-of-the-World Bunkers
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The Man Who Had Himself Taxidermied: Jeremy Bentham
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The secret underground pipeline across Britain
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G-Forces, Gliders, and Graveyard Spirals
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The Abandoned Village of Imber: How Far Can Emergency Powers Go?
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Hovercraft, Concorde, and the Dreams of the 1970s
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The Weirdest Bridge in Wales: The Newport Transporter Bridge
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The Giant Cranes and Robots That Keep Civilisation Running
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The Sightlines of London
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The Toxic Blue Lagoon of Buxton
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Paternoster Lifts: Dangerous, Obsolete and Quite Fun (including over the top!)
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The Most Complex Borders in Europe: Why Do We Have Nations?
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The Fictional Bridges That Became Real
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How The Netherlands Stopped The Wind
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Risk, Immortality, and the Terrifying Pulpit Rock
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Ships, Mines and Magnetism
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7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election
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The 400,000,000-Year Link Between Scotland and Canada
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How To Make Something One Atom Thick
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Turnpikes and Tolls: What if all major roads were private?
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How to Program a Quantum Computer (sort of)
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The Driverless Cars of Greenwich
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How Green Screen Worked Before Computers
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How Many Colours Are In A Rainbow?
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The British Rail Flying Saucer
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The Magic Roundabout: Swindon's Terrifying Traffic Circle and Emergent Behaviour
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Why The Prime Meridian Isn't At 0º
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Why Doesn't Britain Have Rabies?
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Can It Be "Too Cold To Snow"?
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Ley Lines and Avebury Henge, the Better Version of Stonehenge
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The Hottest Place in Britain, and the BBC Theme Park
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The Concrete Pillars On Top Of British Hills: Trig Points
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Why "Four Score and Seven Years Ago"?
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The Floating Lighthouse in New York: The Lightship Ambrose
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The Liquid Nitrogen Tanks of New York
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The Diner Where You Microwaved Your Own Food
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There's a Bit of England in New York, Literally
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What Did Witches Actually Use?
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The Man Who Set Up His Own Toll Road, Without Permission
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Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps
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How To (Appear To) Snap Someone's Neck (On Stage)
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Scotland is Rising and England is Sinking, Literally
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Ultrasonically Vaporized Vodka!
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The Ice Bucket Challenge Lowers Your Heart Rate
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How To Read Text In Binary
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YouTube Doesn't Know Your Password
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Gravity Doesn't Always Point Straight To The Earth's Core
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Giant Underground Trampolines!
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What's The Longest Word In The English Language?
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