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Season 2023
2023 · 76 episodes
1. Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
2023-01-04 · 7m
2. The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
2023-01-11 · 6m
3. Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
2023-01-18
4. The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
2023-01-20 · 6m
5. The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
2023-01-21 · 6m
6. Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
2023-01-30 · 5m
7. The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
2023-02-02 · 6m
8. How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
2023-02-05 · 6m
9. Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
2023-02-13 · 5m
10. Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
2023-02-16 · 6m
11. The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
2023-02-22 · 5m
12. How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
2023-02-24 · 6m
13. Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
2023-03-01 · 6m
14. Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
2023-03-06 · 6m
15. Why American Lawns All Look The Same
2023-03-09 · 6m
16. The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
2023-03-16 · 6m
17. North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
2023-03-18 · 7m
18. How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
2023-03-23 · 6m
19. How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
2023-03-28 · 7m
20. The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
2023-03-31 · 6m
21. How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
2023-04-07 · 7m
22. The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
2023-04-12 · 7m
23. The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
2023-04-15 · 6m
24. This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
2023-04-24 · 6m
25. Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
2023-04-28 · 7m
26. The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
2023-05-01 · 7m
27. How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
2023-05-07 · 6m
28. How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
2023-05-09 · 7m
29. The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
2023-05-12 · 6m
30. Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
2023-05-20 · 7m
31. Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
2023-05-23 · 6m
32. The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
2023-05-26 · 7m
33. Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
2023-06-05 · 7m
34. How Planes Forecast Turbulence
2023-06-08 · 6m
35. Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
2023-06-12 · 6m
36. How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
2023-06-16 · 6m
37. How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
2023-06-22 · 6m
38. The Intense Logistics of Truffles
2023-06-26 · 6m
39. Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
2023-06-30 · 7m
40. How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
2023-07-04 · 7m
41. We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
2023-07-12 · 6m
42. Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
2023-07-15 · 7m
43. Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
2023-07-18 · 6m
44. Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
2023-07-21 · 6m
45. How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
2023-07-31 · 6m
46. Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
2023-08-04 · 6m
47. The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
2023-08-08 · 7m
48. Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
2023-08-10 · 6m
49. Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
2023-08-16 · 6m
50. The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
2023-08-22 · 6m
51. How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
2023-08-29 · 6m
52. The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
2023-08-30
53. Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
2023-08-31 · 6m
54. The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
2023-09-12 · 7m
55. Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
2023-09-19 · 7m
56. The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
2023-09-21 · 6m
57. How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
2023-09-28 · 7m
58. How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
2023-09-29 · 8m
59. Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
2023-09-30 · 7m
60. The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
2023-10-06
61. Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
2023-10-12 · 7m
62. How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
2023-10-20 · 7m
63. Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
2023-10-25
64. Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
2023-10-26
65. How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
2023-10-28
66. How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
2023-11-06 · 7m
67. Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
2023-11-15 · 7m
68. The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
2023-11-17 · 7m
69. Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
2023-11-21
70. The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
2023-11-27
71. NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
2023-11-30
72. The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
2023-12-07
73. The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
2023-12-12 · 8m
74. What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
2023-12-19
75. The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
2023-12-26
76. Why China Took the US’ Pandas
2023-12-28 · 8m
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