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Season 2020

2020 · 77 episodes

  1. 1. How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide

    2020-01-04 · 5m

  2. 2. Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened

    2020-01-08 · 5m

  3. 3. The Secret Tunnel Under the White House

    2020-01-10 · 5m

  4. 4. The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day

    2020-01-16 · 7m

  5. 5. The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists

    2020-01-21 · 6m

  6. 6. The Highway Where Cars are Banned

    2020-01-23 · 6m

  7. 7. How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law

    2020-01-31 · 6m

  8. 8. The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro

    2020-02-04 · 6m

  9. 9. How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet

    2020-02-06 · 6m

  10. 10. Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies

    2020-02-13 · 6m

  11. 11. How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money

    2020-02-18 · 6m

  12. 12. Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent

    2020-02-20 · 6m

  13. 13. Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair

    2020-02-27 · 5m

  14. 14. Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time

    2020-03-03 · 6m

  15. 15. The Airport Where Planes go to Die

    2020-03-05 · 7m

  16. 16. The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night

    2020-03-13 · 6m

  17. 17. How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics

    2020-03-18 · 6m

  18. 18. The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970

    2020-03-20 · 6m

  19. 19. The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft

    2020-03-26 · 6m

  20. 20. How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government

    2020-03-31 · 6m

  21. 21. How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases

    2020-04-02 · 5m

  22. 22. The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened

    2020-04-09 · 7m

  23. 23. United Airlines' Men-Only Flights

    2020-04-14 · 5m

  24. 24. The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France

    2020-04-16 · 5m

  25. 25. A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight

    2020-04-23 · 7m

  26. 26. Who Owns the Rain?

    2020-04-28 · 6m

  27. 27. How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader

    2020-05-01 · 7m

  28. 28. Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan

    2020-05-07 · 5m

  29. 29. Why This Coin is Illegal to Own

    2020-05-12 · 6m

  30. 30. The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire

    2020-05-15 · 6m

  31. 31. The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever

    2020-05-21 · 6m

  32. 32. The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing

    2020-05-26 · 5m

  33. 33. Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question

    2020-05-28 · 6m

  34. 34. Texas' Embassy in Washington DC

    2020-06-04 · 6m

  35. 35. The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate

    2020-06-09 · 6m

  36. 36. Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks

    2020-06-11 · 6m

  37. 37. The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired

    2020-06-18 · 6m

  38. 38. The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago

    2020-06-23 · 6m

  39. 39. Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation

    2020-06-25 · 5m

  40. 40. The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds

    2020-07-02 · 6m

  41. 41. How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic

    2020-07-07 · 6m

  42. 42. The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery

    2020-07-10 · 7m

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    2020-07-16 · 6m

  44. 44. Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland

    2020-07-21 · 6m

  45. 45. Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City

    2020-07-23 · 6m

  46. 46. The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet

    2020-07-30 · 6m

  47. 47. How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy

    2020-08-04 · 6m

  48. 48. The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing

    2020-08-06 · 6m

  49. 49. Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII

    2020-08-13 · 6m

  50. 50. Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left

    2020-08-18 · 6m

  51. 51. How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines

    2020-08-20 · 6m

  52. 52. Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift

    2020-08-28 · 8m

  53. 53. How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government

    2020-09-01 · 7m

  54. 54. The 639 Year Longest Song Ever

    2020-09-03 · 7m

  55. 55. The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845

    2020-09-10 · 6m

  56. 56. Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight

    2020-09-15 · 6m

  57. 57. Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins

    2020-09-17 · 5m

  58. 58. Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe

    2020-09-25 · 6m

  59. 59. The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport

    2020-09-29 · 6m

  60. 60. Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68

    2020-10-02 · 6m

  61. 61. Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better

    2020-10-13 · 6m

  62. 62. The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday

    2020-10-15 · 6m

  63. 63. Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists

    2020-10-20 · 5m

  64. 64. Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa

    2020-10-22 · 5m

  65. 65. Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal

    2020-10-27 · 6m

  66. 66. Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads

    2020-10-29 · 7m

  67. 67. How Astronauts Vote from Space

    2020-11-03 · 6m

  68. 68. Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea

    2020-11-10 · 6m

  69. 69. How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network

    2020-11-13 · 6m

  70. 70. Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland

    2020-11-20 · 5m

  71. 71. How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter

    2020-11-25 · 6m

  72. 72. Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous

    2020-12-05 · 6m

  73. 73. We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)

    2020-12-09 · 8m

  74. 74. What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?

    2020-12-13 · 7m

  75. 75. Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist

    2020-12-17 · 7m

  76. 76. How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language

    2020-12-22 · 7m

  77. 77. Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years

    2020-12-26 · 7m

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