Season 2022 Episodes
76 episodes1
Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?
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The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work
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The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry
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Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
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Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes
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The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast
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Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City
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Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color
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How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years
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Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square
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How to Start Your Own Town
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The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
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Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously
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Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight
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Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
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Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?
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Why This Sound is Illegal to Play
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You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.
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Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos
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Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
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Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
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The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code
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Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp
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How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute
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The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2
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Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive
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⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
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How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise
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Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination
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How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
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Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village
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Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company
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How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret
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Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona
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Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012
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Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore
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Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph
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How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote
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Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline
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The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)
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The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying
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The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money
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Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland
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The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries
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Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s
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Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands
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Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year
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Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona
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Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year
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The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating
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We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year
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The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other
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Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border
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The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
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How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
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Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop
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Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency
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Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie
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Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution
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Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US
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The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake
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Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s
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Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem
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Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?
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Why DC's Shaped Like That
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Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam
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All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
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The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die
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Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
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The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure
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Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System
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Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
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Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day
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The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land
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Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)
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How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World