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For me: 1.) Cicada 3301 - Lemmino [17:53]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI

2.) Why gravity is NOT a force - Veritasium [17:33]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU

3.) The cost of Concordia - Internet Historian [48:48]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9KBwqGxTI

4.) Fast inverse square root - Nemean [20:08]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo

5.) The dark side of the Silk road - Barely Sociable [1:14:45]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpMP6Nh3FvU

Sorry, i'm a nerd. If you are not: only watch no. 3; it's funny.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bill Wurtz's history of the entire world, i guess and its predecessor history of japan. They both blur the line of "documentary" a little, but are very good, and his music (beyond those videos) is also great.

Most any of Qxir's or Plainly Difficult's videos.

I could probably go on, but my nerd is showing maybe a little too much, and I watch way too much youtube.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seconding Qxir. His humor + artstyle + accent combine into a really amusing end result, plus he actually does a fair bit of research into the topics he covers.

Along those lines, Sam O'Nella Academy is another channel of "amusing narration + semi-crude yet understandable illustrations + genuinely informative". I started with his video on Tarrare and chortled mightily throughout.