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Season 2021

2021 · 81 episodes

  1. 1. What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws

    2021-01-05 · 6m

  2. 2. The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison

    2021-01-07 · 6m

  3. 3. Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England

    2021-01-15 · 7m

  4. 4. Why There's an American National Park in Canada

    2021-01-19 · 7m

  5. 5. Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans

    2021-01-22 · 7m

  6. 6. Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words

    2021-01-28 · 7m

  7. 7. Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer

    2021-02-02 · 7m

  8. 8. Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile

    2021-02-04 · 7m

  9. 9. Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids

    2021-02-11 · 6m

  10. 10. The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser

    2021-02-16 · 7m

  11. 11. The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare

    2021-03-02 · 6m

  12. 12. Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents

    2021-03-04 · 6m

  13. 13. This is a Video About Bricks

    2021-03-10 · 13m

  14. 14. The Year Without a Summer Season

    2021-03-16 · 7m

  15. 15. Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"

    2021-03-18 · 7m

  16. 16. The US' Butter Size Border

    2021-03-23 · 7m

  17. 17. Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort

    2021-03-29 · 6m

  18. 18. The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know

    2021-03-31 · 7m

  19. 19. How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours

    2021-04-08 · 7m

  20. 20. Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels

    2021-04-12 · 7m

  21. 21. How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life

    2021-04-14 · 7m

  22. 22. Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground

    2021-04-16 · 7m

  23. 23. How the World's Newest Language Developed

    2021-04-22 · 7m

  24. 24. What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?

    2021-04-28 · 6m

  25. 25. How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe

    2021-04-30 · 7m

  26. 26. Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest

    2021-05-06 · 6m

  27. 27. How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections

    2021-05-11 · 6m

  28. 28. Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant

    2021-05-14 · 6m

  29. 29. Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland

    2021-05-20 · 6m

  30. 30. How the World's Most Complicated Language Works

    2021-05-25 · 6m

  31. 31. What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?

    2021-05-28 · 6m

  32. 32. How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works

    2021-06-03 · 6m

  33. 33. The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers

    2021-06-09 · 8m

  34. 34. Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US

    2021-06-11 · 6m

  35. 35. How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill

    2021-06-18 · 6m

  36. 36. Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second

    2021-06-25 · 6m

  37. 37. Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)

    2021-06-29 · 6m

  38. 38. Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today

    2021-07-01 · 5m

  39. 39. What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?

    2021-07-07 · 5m

  40. 40. The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You

    2021-07-09 · 6m

  41. 41. Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula

    2021-07-15 · 5m

  42. 42. Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)

    2021-07-20 · 7m

  43. 43. Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes

    2021-07-23 · 7m

  44. 44. The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving

    2021-07-29 · 6m

  45. 45. How to Decode Credit Card Numbers

    2021-08-03 · 5m

  46. 46. The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code

    2021-08-06 · 5m

  47. 47. Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases

    2021-08-12 · 12m

  48. 48. Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week

    2021-08-20 · 6m

  49. 49. Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off

    2021-08-27 · 6m

  50. 50. Hooters' Very Real Airline

    2021-08-30 · 6m

  51. 51. Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope

    2021-08-31 · 9m

  52. 52. The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)

    2021-09-07 · 6m

  53. 53. Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed

    2021-09-10 · 2m

  54. 54. The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan

    2021-09-14 · 7m

  55. 55. How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret

    2021-09-20 · 6m

  56. 56. How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret

    2021-09-24 · 6m

  57. 57. Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City

    2021-09-28 · 7m

  58. 58. The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally

    2021-09-30 · 6m

  59. 59. Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England

    2021-10-07 · 6m

  60. 60. A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy

    2021-10-13 · 6m

  61. 61. Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645

    2021-10-15 · 7m

  62. 62. Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists

    2021-10-22 · 6m

  63. 63. Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze

    2021-10-27 · 6m

  64. 64. Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is

    2021-10-28 · 5m

  65. 65. The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans

    2021-10-29 · 5m

  66. 66. Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year

    2021-11-05 · 6m

  67. 67. Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records

    2021-11-09 · 6m

  68. 68. Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere

    2021-11-11 · 5m

  69. 69. Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon

    2021-11-17 · 1m

  70. 70. Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year

    2021-11-18 · 6m

  71. 71. How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions

    2021-11-22 · 1m

  72. 72. Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February

    2021-11-24 · 7m

  73. 73. Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo

    2021-11-26 · 7m

  74. 74. Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027

    2021-12-03 · 7m

  75. 75. How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks

    2021-12-07 · 6m

  76. 76. Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole

    2021-12-09 · 6m

  77. 77. Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US

    2021-12-14 · 1m

  78. 78. Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East

    2021-12-16 · 6m

  79. 79. Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant

    2021-12-22 · 6m

  80. 80. The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding

    2021-12-23 · 6m

  81. 81. Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?

    2021-12-31 · 7m

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