{"id":12833,"date":"2024-01-05T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/i-am-so-tired-youtuber-tom-scott-ends-things-you-might-not-know\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:37:35","slug":"i-am-so-tired-youtuber-tom-scott-ends-things-you-might-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/i-am-so-tired-youtuber-tom-scott-ends-things-you-might-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am so tired\u2019: YouTuber Tom Scott ends Things You Might Not Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British YouTube star posted a weekly video for 10 years, about everything from pegasus crossings to the National Grid<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, Tom Scott held up his phone camera and recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X5V45wYwrkY\">a 90-second video about traffic lights on bridleways<\/a>. In Britain, we have pelican crossings, toucan crossings and puffin crossings, he explained, \u201cand then, because all those are named after flying things, we have this: a pegasus crossing. And that is a thing you might not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then, a day later, he posted another \u201cthing you might not know\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SQ3g5gPKlDM\">about Battersea heliport<\/a>. And then another, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nYxFrMNWbtI\">about flammable orange oil<\/a>. And more and more. The cadence settled down to one a week, but the videos kept coming.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/05\/youtuber-tom-scott-ends-things-you-might-not-know-series\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9698f661a74082646d8c3d71cc11650a9884b4d5\/396_155_4323_2594\/master\/4323.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a6434fce4dd8b3304e90f26d6876b131\" title=\"\u2018I am so tired\u2019: YouTuber Tom Scott ends Things You Might Not Know\" \/>British YouTube star posted a weekly video for 10 years, about everything from pegasus crossings to the National Grid<br \/>\nTen years ago, Tom Scott held up his phone camera and recorded a 90-second video about traffic lights on bridleways. In Britain, we have pelican crossings, toucan crossings and puffin crossings, he explained, \u201cand then, because all those are named after flying things, we have this: a pegasus crossing. And that is a thing you might not know.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd then, a day later, he posted another \u201cthing you might not know\u201d, about Battersea heliport. And then another, about flammable orange oil. And more and more. The cadence settled down to one a week, but the videos kept coming. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British YouTube star posted a weekly video for 10 years, about everything from pegasus crossings to the National Grid Ten years ago, Tom Scott held up his phone camera and recorded a 90-second video about traffic lights on bridleways. In Britain, we have pelican crossings, toucan crossings and puffin crossings, he explained, \u201cand then, because &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/i-am-so-tired-youtuber-tom-scott-ends-things-you-might-not-know\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I am so tired\u2019: YouTuber Tom Scott ends Things You Might Not Know<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}