Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

  • Premiered: Jan 2014
  • Episodes: 269
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Season 2022
2022x1
There's a £100,000 coin buried under this London building
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Jan 17, 2022
The 1933 British penny is one of the most famous coins in the world. I'm not saying this is definitely a heist movie waiting to happen... but I do think someone should write it. I Thanks .. show full overview
2022x2
The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire
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Feb 14, 2022
In the 1960s, America was running "Operation Plowshare": the idea that perhaps nuclear bombs could be used for peace, not war. At least some British scientists had similar ambitions, and .. show full overview
2022x3
Reopening an airport terminal is harder than you might think
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Mar 21, 2022
On Sunday, the South Terminal at London's Gatwick Airport will reopen for the first time since 2020. It turns out that mothballing an entire terminal isn't quite as easy as turning out .. show full overview
2022x4
How does Britain know what time it is?
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Apr 04, 2022
Did I need to get a radio controlled clock and travel to Anthorn to film this video? Absolutely not. But for a few minutes, that clock was really, really accurate.
2022x5
I flew with birds. You can too
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May 16, 2022
In southern France, there's a man called Christian who flies a microlight aircraft, alongside flocks of birds. And he takes passengers
2022x6
The massive Fatigue Carousel helps keep roads safe
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May 28, 2022
The "accelerated pavement testing facility" in Nantes can simulate decades of road traffic in a few months. Here's how.
2022x7
This clock was famous, but the Internet ruined it
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Jun 27, 2022
Royal FloraHolland's flower auction in Aalsmeer had a famous clock: a literal Dutch auction where the first person to press their button would win. But it's no more, and that's down to the internet.
2022x8
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
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Aug 08, 2022
At the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, keyers process 1.2 billion images of mail every year. It's a more difficult job than I thought.
2022x9
This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes
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Aug 29, 2022
The "T-Rex" is the University of Texas' large mobile shaker, and I got to see it in action.
2022x10
Why do YouTubers clap at the start of videos?
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Sep 19, 2022
It's about synchronisation, right? Well, not exactly...
2022x11
Keeping the world's longest railway tunnel safe
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Oct 10, 2022
The Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland is 57km long: and I think its greatest piece of safety equipment is nowhere near the tunnel itself.
2022x12
The government approves of this shark now.
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Oct 24, 2022
The Headington Shark, in Oxford, UK, is a local icon: but it was protest art, put up without permission. Now, the local government wants to protect it
2022x13
Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?
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Oct 31, 2022
There's a lot of articles written about how tap water in Warsaw is constantly tested by a small team of clams. It felt like a hoax to me: so I went to find out.
2022x14 Season finale
The US government is giving out free wasps
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Dec 12, 2022
The brown marmorated stink bug is an invasive pest. To help deal with its numbers, the Oregon Department of Agriculture is releasing its natural enemy: the tiny samurai wasp. There's a lot of work that goes into it

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