Season 2022

1. Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

2022-01-04 · 6m

2. The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work

2022-01-06 · 6m

3. The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry

2022-01-13 · 5m

4. Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years

2022-01-20 · 6m

5. Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes

2022-01-22 · 6m

6. The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast

2022-01-31 · 6m

7. Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City

2022-02-02 · 6m

8. Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

2022-02-09 · 6m

9. How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years

2022-02-11 · 6m

10. Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square

2022-02-16 · 7m

11. How to Start Your Own Town

2022-02-19 · 6m

12. The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm

2022-02-28 · 6m

13. Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously

2022-03-02 · 6m

14. Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight

2022-03-04 · 6m

15. Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever

2022-03-10 · 6m

16. Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?

2022-03-16 · 7m

17. Why This Sound is Illegal to Play

2022-03-18 · 7m

18. You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.

2022-03-25 · 6m

19. Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos

2022-03-29 · 6m

20. Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

2022-03-31 · 6m

21. Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

2022-04-08 · 6m

22. The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code

2022-04-12 · 6m

23. Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp

2022-04-14 · 6m

24. How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute

2022-04-21 · 6m

25. The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2

2022-04-27 · 6m

26. Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive

2022-04-29 · 6m

27. ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means

2022-05-06 · 6m

28. How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise

2022-05-10 · 6m

29. Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination

2022-05-20 · 6m

30. How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From

2022-05-24 · 6m

31. Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village

2022-05-26 · 5m

32. Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company

2022-05-31 · 6m

33. How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret

2022-06-02 · 6m

34. Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona

2022-06-07 · 5m

35. Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012

2022-06-09 · 6m

36. Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore

2022-06-16 · 6m

37. Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph

2022-06-21 · 6m

38. How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote

2022-06-28 · 6m

39. Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline

2022-06-30 · 5m

40. The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)

2022-07-05 · 5m

41. The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying

2022-07-08 · 6m

42. The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

2022-07-14 · 5m

43. Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

2022-07-19 · 6m

44. The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

2022-07-22 · 6m

45. Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s

2022-08-01 · 6m

46. Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands

2022-08-04 · 6m

47. Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year

2022-08-09 · 6m

48. Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona

2022-08-12 · 5m

49. Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year

2022-08-16 · 6m

50. The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating

2022-08-22 · 6m

51. We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year

2022-08-25 · 6m

52. The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other

2022-08-31 · 6m

53. Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border

2022-09-06 · 7m

54. The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year

2022-09-12 · 5m

55. How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System

2022-09-14 · 6m

56. Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop

2022-09-20 · 6m

57. Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency

2022-09-28 · 6m

58. Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie

2022-09-30 · 7m

59. Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution

2022-10-07 · 7m

60. Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US

2022-10-13 · 6m

61. The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake

2022-10-15 · 6m

62. Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s

2022-10-22

63. Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem

2022-10-27

64. Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?

2022-11-01

65. Why DC's Shaped Like That

2022-11-08

66. Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam

2022-11-10

67. All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

2022-11-15

68. The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die

2022-11-18

69. Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US

2022-11-22

70. The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure

2022-12-02

71. Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System

2022-12-06 · 6m

72. Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

2022-12-09

73. Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day

2022-12-15 · 6m

74. The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land

2022-12-22 · 6m

75. Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)

2022-12-27 · 6m

76. How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World

2022-12-30 · 6m