Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

  • Estreou: Jan 2014
  • Episódios: 269
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Temporada 2023
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This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically
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Jan 09, 2023
The Great Scenic Railway, at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia, is the second oldest rollercoaster in the world: and it's one of only a few which still uses a manual brake.
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These chickens save lives.
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Jan 16, 2023
"Sentinel chickens" are an early-warning system against some nasty mosquito-borne diseases. I visited a flock in New South Wales, Australia.
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This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
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Fev 27, 2023
The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can't be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that
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This tiny hovercraft went viral.
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Abr 10, 2023
Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft.
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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
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Mai 01, 2023
Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures... just in käse
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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
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Mai 22, 2023
At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world.
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This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
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Mai 29, 2023
The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind tunnel but in reverse. So rather than just show it to .. show full overview
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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
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Jun 05, 2023
The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it.
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Climbing frames were meant to hack kids' brains
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Jun 26, 2023
Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking.
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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
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Jul 03, 2023
Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B: a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.
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If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
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Jul 17, 2023
At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by actual bears.
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A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
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Jul 24, 2023
An unexpected update to the Bear test video
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Why are adverts so loud?
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Set 04, 2023
This was so much more complex than I thought.
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This library has every book ever published
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Set 11, 2023
The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK - and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and .. show full overview
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0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
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Out 23, 2023
AMZ Racing's "mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it.
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Boarding planes could have been very different
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Out 30, 2023
There's a world in which everyone boards planes with "mobile lounges", PTVs, or Plane-Mates... but this is not that world.
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Why use many streetlights when one will do?
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Nov 27, 2023
The moonlight towers of Austin, Texas, are the last urban municipal lighting towers in the world: because before every street was wired to the grid, how else would you light up a city?
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Why the government drops flies on California
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Dez 18, 2023
There's a good reason for it.
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People are going to be angry about pylons.
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Dez 25, 2023
Britain's power grid is turning inside-out, which means pylons are about to become a lot more controversial in Britain. At the National Grid Training Centre, I climbed one.

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