Season 2024 Episodes
56 episodes1
South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
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Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
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The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
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How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
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How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
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Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
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The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
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The Logistics of White House State Dinners
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The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
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How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
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Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
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Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
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Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
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Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
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Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
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The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
Video written by Ben Doyle
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Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
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How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
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The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
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The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
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How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
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Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
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The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
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The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
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Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
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Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
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Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
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Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
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The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
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Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
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How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
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How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
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How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
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How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
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The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
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The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
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The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
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The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
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The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
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The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
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The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
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Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
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How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
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Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
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How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
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How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
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How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
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How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
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Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
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The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
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How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
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How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
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The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
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How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
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How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
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The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau