Season 2023 Episodes
76 episodes1
Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
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The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
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Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
4
The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
5
The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
6
Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
7
The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
8
How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
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Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
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Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
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The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
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How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
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Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
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Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
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Why American Lawns All Look The Same
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The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
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North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
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How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
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How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
20
The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
21
How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
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The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
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The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
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This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
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Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
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The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
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How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
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How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
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The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
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Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
31
Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
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The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
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Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
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How Planes Forecast Turbulence
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Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
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How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
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How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
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The Intense Logistics of Truffles
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Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
40
How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
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We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
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Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
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Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
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Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
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How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
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Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
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The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
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Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
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Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
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The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
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How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
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The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
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Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
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The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
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Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
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The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
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How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
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How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
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Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
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The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
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Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
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How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
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Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
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Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
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How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
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How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
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Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
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The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
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Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
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The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
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NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
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The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
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The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
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What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
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The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
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Why China Took the US’ Pandas