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January 4, 2023
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01. Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
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7min
January 4, 2023
02. The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
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6min
January 11, 2023
03. Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
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January 18, 2023
04. The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
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6min
January 20, 2023
05. The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
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6min
January 21, 2023
06. Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
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5min
January 30, 2023
07. The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
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6min
February 2, 2023
08. How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
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6min
February 5, 2023
09. Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
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5min
February 13, 2023
10. Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
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6min
February 16, 2023
11. The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
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5min
February 22, 2023
12. How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
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6min
February 24, 2023
13. Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
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6min
March 1, 2023
14. Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
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6min
March 6, 2023
15. Why American Lawns All Look The Same
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6min
March 9, 2023
16. The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
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6min
March 16, 2023
17. North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
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7min
March 18, 2023
18. How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
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6min
March 23, 2023
19. How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
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7min
March 28, 2023
20. The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
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6min
March 31, 2023
21. How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
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7min
April 7, 2023
22. The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
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7min
April 12, 2023
23. The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
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6min
April 15, 2023
24. This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
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6min
April 24, 2023
25. Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
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7min
April 28, 2023
26. The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
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7min
May 1, 2023
27. How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
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6min
May 7, 2023
28. How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
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7min
May 9, 2023
29. The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
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6min
May 12, 2023
30. Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
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7min
May 20, 2023
31. Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
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6min
May 23, 2023
32. The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
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7min
May 26, 2023
33. Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
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7min
June 5, 2023
34. How Planes Forecast Turbulence
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6min
June 8, 2023
35. Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
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6min
June 12, 2023
36. How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
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6min
June 16, 2023
37. How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
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6min
June 22, 2023
38. The Intense Logistics of Truffles
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6min
June 26, 2023
39. Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
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7min
June 30, 2023
40. How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
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7min
July 4, 2023
41. We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
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6min
July 12, 2023
42. Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
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7min
July 15, 2023
43. Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
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6min
July 18, 2023
44. Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
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6min
July 21, 2023
45. How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
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6min
July 31, 2023
46. Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
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6min
August 4, 2023
47. The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
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7min
August 8, 2023
48. Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
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6min
August 10, 2023
49. Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
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6min
August 16, 2023
50. The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
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6min
August 22, 2023
51. How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
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6min
August 29, 2023
52. The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
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August 30, 2023
53. Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
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6min
August 31, 2023
54. The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
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7min
September 12, 2023
55. Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
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7min
September 19, 2023
56. The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
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6min
September 21, 2023
57. How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
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7min
September 28, 2023
58. How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
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8min
September 29, 2023
59. Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
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7min
September 30, 2023
60. The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
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October 6, 2023
61. Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
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7min
October 12, 2023
62. How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
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7min
October 20, 2023
63. Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
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October 25, 2023
64. Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
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October 26, 2023
65. How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
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October 28, 2023
66. How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
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7min
November 6, 2023
67. Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
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7min
November 15, 2023
68. The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
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7min
November 17, 2023
69. Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
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November 21, 2023
70. The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
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November 27, 2023
71. NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
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November 30, 2023
72. The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
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December 7, 2023
73. The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
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December 12, 2023
74. What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
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December 19, 2023
75. The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
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December 26, 2023
76. Why China Took the US’ Pandas
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8min
December 28, 2023