Season 2024

1. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere

2024-01-04 · 6m

2. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert

2024-01-11 · 6m

3. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

2024-01-16 · 7m

4. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

2024-01-19 · 7m

5. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

2024-01-25 · 7m

6. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

2024-01-26 · 7m

7. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

2024-01-31 · 7m

8. The Logistics of White House State Dinners

2024-01-31 · 7m

9. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

2024-02-05 · 7m

10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

2024-02-19 · 7m

11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

2024-02-25 · 6m

12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

2024-02-28 · 7m

13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana

2024-02-29 · 6m

14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

2024-03-19 · 8m

15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

2024-03-22 · 9m

16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

2024-03-27 · 9m

Video written by Ben Doyle

17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

2024-03-31 · 8m

18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

2024-04-06 · 8m

19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

2024-04-16 · 8m

20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

2024-04-23 · 8m

21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

2024-05-01 · 9m

22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

2024-05-09 · 9m

23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

2024-05-14 · 10m

24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

2024-05-17 · 8m

25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

2024-05-24 · 9m

26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

2024-06-03 · 9m

27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

2024-06-06 · 8m

28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

2024-06-13 · 9m

29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

2024-06-25 · 8m

30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System

2024-07-01 · 8m

31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

2024-07-08 · 9m

32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

2024-07-15 · 9m

33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

2024-07-19 · 9m

34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

2024-07-30 · 8m

35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

2024-08-01 · 8m

36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

2024-08-09 · 9m

37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

2024-08-20 · 8m

38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

2024-08-26 · 8m

39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

2024-09-03 · 8m

40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

2024-09-07 · 9m

41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.

2024-09-18 · 8m

42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans

2024-09-26 · 7m

43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

2024-09-30 · 8m

44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water

2024-10-10 · 9m

45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

2024-10-17 · 8m

46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

2024-10-25 · 9m

47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

2024-10-30 · 9m

48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

2024-10-31 · 9m

49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever

2024-11-12 · 9m

50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

2024-11-19 · 9m

51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes

2024-11-26 · 8m

52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

2024-11-30 · 8m

53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

2024-12-12 · 9m

54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days

2024-12-17 · 9m

55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole

2024-12-24 · 7m

56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau

2024-12-26 · 8m