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Why Mountain Dew Rots Your Teeth More Than Coca-Cola
- Published_at:2016-08-29
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know chase sciencec coca-cola mountain dew ph ta titratable acidity tooth decay enamel rot science
- description: GUEST VIDEO! Go subscribe to Chase's channel: http://youtube.com/c/sciencec "Hi Tom, I've got two of my sister's teeth dissolving in cola." That was the best pitch I got for guest videos - and so please welcome Chase from ScienceC, to talk about pH,...
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The Battery That's Lasted 176 Years
- Published_at:2016-08-22
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know sally le page shed science oxford electric bell oxford university physics dry pile voltaic cells
- description: GUEST VIDEO! Go subscribe to Sally's channel: http://youtube.com/sallylepage In a laboratory at Oxford University sits the Oxford Electric Bell, which has spent 176 years constantly ringing. And no-one's quite sure what the battery that powers it is...
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The Man Who Invented, Then Hated, Shopping Malls
- Published_at:2016-07-04
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott things you might not know victor gruen shopping mall shopping center suburbia sprawl brent cross brent cross shopping centre
- description: Victor Gruen is, according to history, the man who invented the shopping mall... but that wasn't quite what he was aiming for. And it seemed like an appropriate day to do a video about suburban sprawl -- happy Independence Day, America! I'm at...
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The Flower That Smells Like Death
- Published_at:2016-06-20
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know eden project cornwall corpse flower titum arum rainforest nathan mansbridge 4k
- description: There's a titan arum - a corpse flower - blooming at the Eden Project in Cornwall. For years, it stores energy: and then for 48 hours, it heats up and sends out the smell of decay and death through the rainforest. And it stinks. The Eden Project:...
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Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality
- Published_at:2016-05-23
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott computer explanations exploit bug computer minutiae youtube bitrate video quality quality h264 compression confetti snow interframe compression intraframe compression mbps kbps
- description: Your sports team wins. The confetti drops. And suddenly, the video quality falls apart. Why? Let's talk about interframe compression, bitrate, and unnecessary green screen effects. I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott...
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The Most Dangerous Stretch of Water in the World: The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
- Published_at:2016-05-09
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott amazing places the strid strid bolton abbey yorkshire rapids river wharfe boy of egremont
- description: I know, I know, it's a clickbait title. But I stand by it, because the water is so deceptive, and so pretty, and there's a path that leads straight down to it and that jump looks very, very possible... The 12th century legend is the "Boy of...
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Why 1/1/1970 Bricks Your iPhone
- Published_at:2016-02-12
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott bug exploit glitch ios iphone apple unix epoch integer overflow
- description: People keep finding bugs in iPhones, and other people keep asking me to make videos about them. So here you go! Here's a tale of binary, of the Unix epoch, and a date beyond the lifespan of the universe. GET IN TOUCH: http://tomscott.com - TWITTER...
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Why Wuppertal's Suspended Monorail Wasn't The Future Of Travel
- Published_at:2016-01-25
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott amazing places wuppertal suspended monorail monorail germany travel urban planning Schwebebahn
- description: In Wuppertal, Germany, there's the Schwebebahn: a suspended monorail that carries 80,000 people a day above the streets of the city, and above the river Wupper. It's a wonderful thing: but it wasn't the future of travel, and here's why. INSTAGRAM:...
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Why Britain Sucks At Product Placement
- Published_at:2016-01-04
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott things you might not know product placement tv license tv licensing alexandra palace advertising standards authority advertising code piccadilly circus houses of parliament advertising united kingdom britain england
- description: Britain has some of the strongest product placement rules in the world - and it means YouTube vloggers have to declare their advertising before you click on the video. Why? And what did it mean for our version of The Price is Right? Thank you to Rob...
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Seeing Other People's Steam Accounts: The Christmas Caching Catastrophe
- Published_at:2015-12-26
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott exploit steam caching cache varnish steampowered bug
- description: On Christmas Day, someone at Steam changed a setting and brought down their whole games platform. I wasn't expecting to do a video this Christmas, but when enough people tweet me, it turns out I can be convinced... (I should note: while Steam have...
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700 Flavours of Soda Pop: Galco's in Los Angeles
- Published_at:2015-11-27
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott amazing places galco's soda pop stop Los Angeles (City/Town/Village) Highland Park (Neighborhood) Soft Drink (Beverage Type) Soda Fountain (Product Category) soda pop Cola (Beverage) Food (TV Genre) Flavor
- description: Welcome to Galco's Soda Pop Stop, and the wonderfully knowledgeable John Nese. Thank you to John for his time, and to all the team at the Soda Pop Stop! You can visit them here: http://sodapopstop.com In Highland Park, in Los Angeles, sits something...
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Real Life Emoji Keyboard!
- Published_at:2015-09-21
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott Emoji Computer Keyboard (Computer Peripheral Class) emoji keyboard bodge bodging
- description: http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - This is the most ridiculous thing I've built in a long while: a full-size, real-life emoji keyboard, made of 14 keyboards and over 1,000 individually placed stickers. And yet, it's got everything...
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Containing the Worst Nuclear Disaster in History: Chernobyl's New Confinement Structure
- Published_at:2015-07-27
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott amazing places Disaster (Quotation Subject) Chernobyl Disaster (Disaster) Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Structure) Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (Location) Chernobyl (City/Town/Village) Nuclear Power (Industry) Nuclear Reactor...
- description: http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - Deep in rural Ukraine sits what was once the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station. Now, it's the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history: and one that still needs to be contained, thirty...
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The World's Largest Indoor Waterpark
- Published_at:2015-07-20
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott amazing places Tropical Islands Resort (Amusement Park) Indoor Water Park (Building Function) Water Park (Industry) Amusement Park (Industry) Swimming Pool waterpark brand Germany (Country)
- description: http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - The biggest uninterrupted indoor space on the planet, Tropical Islands Resort ( https://www.tropical-islands.de/ ), sits on an old airfield in Germany. How on earth could anyone afford to build...
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