Videos
Sixty seconds each, and none of them guesses: every number on screen comes from a dataset you can check below the video.
Races 41
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1:12 Cigarettes per adult, 1910–2010 owid_cigarettes -
1:11 Metro systems, 1890–2026 wikipedia_metro_systems -
1:02 Working hours, 1870–2023 owid_working_hours -
0:53 EV stock, 2010–2025 iea_via_owid -
0:58 Sex ratio at birth, 1986–2023 unwpp_via_owid -
0:54 Antidepressant consumption, 2000–2024 oecd_health_phmc -
1:03 Prison population rate, 2000–2024 wpb_via_owid · wpb_via_owid_carried -
1:04 Tertiary attainment, 1950–2020 barro_lee_via_owid -
1:09 Fertility rate, 1950–2023 un_wpp_via_owid -
1:12 Total GDP maddison_2023_extrapolated · maddison_2023_gdppc_x_pop · maddison_gdp_total -
1:06 Homicide rate, 1990–2022 unodc_via_owid -
1:01 Meat consumption, 1961–2023 fao_via_owid -
1:06 Obesity rate, 1980–2024 who_gho_via_owid -
1:05 Cars: share of the world oica_via_wikipedia -
1:14 Chess ratings, 1851–2026 chessmetrics_sonas_retro · fide_official -
1:13 CO₂ cumulative, 1850–2024 owid_global_carbon_project_cumulative -
1:01 CO₂ per capita, 1900–2023 owid_global_carbon_project -
0:58 Coal: share of the world owid_coal_production -
1:08 Military expenditure, 1960–2023 wb_MS_MIL_XPND_CD -
1:22 Nuclear warheads, 1945–2024 fas_nuclear_notebook · owid_nuclear_stockpiles -
0:58 Oil: share of the world owid_oil_production -
1:23 Global population by polity linear_extrapolation_2022 · maddison_2023 · mcevedy_jones_1978_estimates · owid_population_historical · owid_population_historical_extrapolated · un_wpp_2024 · worldometer_2026 -
0:53 Sugar: share of the world owid_sugar_cane_fao -
1:03 Wine production, 1961–2023 owid_wine_fao -
0:58 Happiness, 2011–2024 owid_world_happiness_report -
1:14 Milk production, 1961–2024 owid_milk_fao -
0:54 AFCON by country afcon_by_country -
0:53 Asian Cup by country asian_cup_by_country -
1:01 ATP finals by player atp_finals_by_player -
0:49 Davis Cup by country davis_cup_by_country -
1:02 Eurovision wins by country eurovision_wins_by_country -
0:54 F1 constructors by team f1_constructors_by_team -
0:56 Gold Cup by country gold_cup_by_country -
0:59 Handball World Cup by country handball_wc_by_country -
0:55 Olympic football gold by country olympic_football_gold_by_country -
0:57 Olympic hosts by country olympic_hosts_by_country -
0:49 Rugby World Cup by country rugby_wc_by_country -
0:49 NBA MVP by player nba_mvp_by_player -
0:56 Painting auctions, USD painting_auction_usd -
1:05 Steam peak CCU steam_peak_ccu -
0:59 WTA Grand Slam by player wta_gs_by_player
Maps and stories 37
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1:21 How Austria-Hungary split -
1:23 How merchants beat a kingdom -
1:25 How one survivor founded al-Andalus -
1:21 The boys who ran an empire -
0:48 Austronesian languages: one canoe -
1:21 How Czechoslovakia split -
1:21 How Normandy made England -
0:44 Languages: centum and satem -
0:38 Sino-Tibetan languages: one river -
1:24 The tribes that named Europe -
1:23 Four empires, one week -
1:26 How chess travelled -
1:18 How chocolate travelled -
1:13 How far Islam went -
1:13 How far the Vikings got -
1:13 How gunpowder travelled -
1:21 How paper money left China -
1:14 How silk escaped China -
1:21 How Spain learned to pass -
1:24 How the calendar won -
1:14 How the dead are honoured -
1:21 How the horse came back -
1:30 How the plague travelled -
1:22 How the secret ballot spread -
1:11 How the turkey crossed back -
1:19 How the zodiac travelled -
1:22 Inca without the queue -
1:19 One god, many names -
1:20 Roman ruins not in Rome -
1:22 The Silk Road you can drive -
1:28 Who invented calculus -
1:17 Writing, invented alone -
1:23 The alphabet tree -
1:34 How football split -
1:34 Mongol successor states -
1:30 Silk Road convergence -
0:27 Greek terms