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January 4, 2024
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01. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
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6min
January 4, 2024
02. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
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6min
January 11, 2024
03. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
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7min
January 16, 2024
04. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
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7min
January 19, 2024
05. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
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7min
January 25, 2024
06. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
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7min
January 26, 2024
07. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
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7min
January 31, 2024
08. The Logistics of White House State Dinners
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7min
January 31, 2024
09. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
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7min
February 5, 2024
10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
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7min
February 19, 2024
11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
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6min
February 25, 2024
12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
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7min
February 28, 2024
13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
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6min
February 29, 2024
14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
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8min
March 19, 2024
15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
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9min
March 22, 2024
16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
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9min
March 27, 2024
17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
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8min
March 31, 2024
18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
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8min
April 6, 2024
19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
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8min
April 16, 2024
20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
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8min
April 23, 2024
21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
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9min
May 1, 2024
22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
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9min
May 9, 2024
23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
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10min
May 14, 2024
24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
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8min
May 17, 2024
25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
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9min
May 24, 2024
26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
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9min
June 3, 2024
27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
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8min
June 6, 2024
28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
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9min
June 13, 2024
29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
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8min
June 25, 2024
30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
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8min
July 1, 2024
31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
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9min
July 8, 2024
32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
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9min
July 15, 2024
33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
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9min
July 19, 2024
34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
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8min
July 30, 2024
35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
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8min
August 1, 2024
36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
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9min
August 9, 2024
37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
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8min
August 20, 2024
38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
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8min
August 26, 2024
39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
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8min
September 3, 2024
40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
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9min
September 7, 2024
41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
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8min
September 18, 2024
42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
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7min
September 26, 2024
43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
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8min
September 30, 2024
44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
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9min
October 10, 2024
45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
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8min
October 17, 2024
46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
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9min
October 25, 2024
47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
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9min
October 30, 2024
48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
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9min
October 31, 2024
49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
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9min
November 12, 2024
50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
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9min
November 19, 2024
51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
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8min
November 26, 2024
52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
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8min
November 30, 2024
53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
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9min
December 12, 2024
54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
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9min
December 17, 2024
55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
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7min
December 24, 2024
56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau
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8min
December 26, 2024