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Season 2020
2020 · 77 episodes
1. How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
2020-01-04 · 5m
2. Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
2020-01-08 · 5m
3. The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
2020-01-10 · 5m
4. The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
2020-01-16 · 7m
5. The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
2020-01-21 · 6m
6. The Highway Where Cars are Banned
2020-01-23 · 6m
7. How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
2020-01-31 · 6m
8. The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
2020-02-04 · 6m
9. How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
2020-02-06 · 6m
10. Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
2020-02-13 · 6m
11. How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
2020-02-18 · 6m
12. Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
2020-02-20 · 6m
13. Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
2020-02-27 · 5m
14. Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
2020-03-03 · 6m
15. The Airport Where Planes go to Die
2020-03-05 · 7m
16. The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
2020-03-13 · 6m
17. How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
2020-03-18 · 6m
18. The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
2020-03-20 · 6m
19. The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
2020-03-26 · 6m
20. How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
2020-03-31 · 6m
21. How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
2020-04-02 · 5m
22. The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
2020-04-09 · 7m
23. United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
2020-04-14 · 5m
24. The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
2020-04-16 · 5m
25. A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
2020-04-23 · 7m
26. Who Owns the Rain?
2020-04-28 · 6m
27. How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
2020-05-01 · 7m
28. Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
2020-05-07 · 5m
29. Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
2020-05-12 · 6m
30. The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
2020-05-15 · 6m
31. The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
2020-05-21 · 6m
32. The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
2020-05-26 · 5m
33. Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
2020-05-28 · 6m
34. Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
2020-06-04 · 6m
35. The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
2020-06-09 · 6m
36. Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
2020-06-11 · 6m
37. The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
2020-06-18 · 6m
38. The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
2020-06-23 · 6m
39. Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
2020-06-25 · 5m
40. The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
2020-07-02 · 6m
41. How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
2020-07-07 · 6m
42. The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
2020-07-10 · 7m
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2020-07-16 · 6m
44. Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
2020-07-21 · 6m
45. Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
2020-07-23 · 6m
46. The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
2020-07-30 · 6m
47. How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
2020-08-04 · 6m
48. The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
2020-08-06 · 6m
49. Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
2020-08-13 · 6m
50. Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
2020-08-18 · 6m
51. How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
2020-08-20 · 6m
52. Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
2020-08-28 · 8m
53. How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
2020-09-01 · 7m
54. The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
2020-09-03 · 7m
55. The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
2020-09-10 · 6m
56. Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
2020-09-15 · 6m
57. Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
2020-09-17 · 5m
58. Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
2020-09-25 · 6m
59. The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
2020-09-29 · 6m
60. Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
2020-10-02 · 6m
61. Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
2020-10-13 · 6m
62. The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
2020-10-15 · 6m
63. Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
2020-10-20 · 5m
64. Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
2020-10-22 · 5m
65. Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
2020-10-27 · 6m
66. Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
2020-10-29 · 7m
67. How Astronauts Vote from Space
2020-11-03 · 6m
68. Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
2020-11-10 · 6m
69. How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
2020-11-13 · 6m
70. Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
2020-11-20 · 5m
71. How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
2020-11-25 · 6m
72. Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
2020-12-05 · 6m
73. We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
2020-12-09 · 8m
74. What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
2020-12-13 · 7m
75. Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
2020-12-17 · 7m
76. How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
2020-12-22 · 7m
77. Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
2020-12-26 · 7m
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