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1. 1 1. Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?2022-01-04 · 6m
2. 2 2. The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work2022-01-06 · 6m
3. 3 3. The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry2022-01-13 · 5m
4. 4 4. Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years2022-01-20 · 6m
5. 5 5. Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes2022-01-22 · 6m
6. 6 6. The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast2022-01-31 · 6m
7. 7 7. Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City2022-02-02 · 6m
8. 8 8. Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color2022-02-09 · 6m
9. 9 9. How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years2022-02-11 · 6m
10. 10 10. Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square2022-02-16 · 7m
11. 11 11. How to Start Your Own Town2022-02-19 · 6m
12. 12 12. The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm2022-02-28 · 6m
13. 13 13. Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously2022-03-02 · 6m
14. 14 14. Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight2022-03-04 · 6m
15. 15 15. Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever2022-03-10 · 6m
16. 16 16. Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?2022-03-16 · 7m
17. 17 17. Why This Sound is Illegal to Play2022-03-18 · 7m
18. 18 18. You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.2022-03-25 · 6m
19. 19 19. Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos2022-03-29 · 6m
20. 20 20. Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds2022-03-31 · 6m
21. 21 21. Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border2022-04-08 · 6m
22. 22 22. The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code2022-04-12 · 6m
23. 23 23. Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp2022-04-14 · 6m
24. 24 24. How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute2022-04-21 · 6m
25. 25 25. The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=22022-04-27 · 6m
26. 26 26. Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive2022-04-29 · 6m
27. 27 27. ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means2022-05-06 · 6m
28. 28 28. How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise2022-05-10 · 6m
29. 29 29. Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination2022-05-20 · 6m
30. 30 30. How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From2022-05-24 · 6m
31. 31 31. Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village2022-05-26 · 5m
32. 32 32. Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company2022-05-31 · 6m
33. 33 33. How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret2022-06-02 · 6m
34. 34 34. Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona2022-06-07 · 5m
35. 35 35. Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 20122022-06-09 · 6m
36. 36 36. Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore2022-06-16 · 6m
37. 37 37. Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph2022-06-21 · 6m
38. 38 38. How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote2022-06-28 · 6m
39. 39 39. Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline2022-06-30 · 5m
40. 40 40. The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)2022-07-05 · 5m
41. 41 41. The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying2022-07-08 · 6m
42. 42 42. The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money2022-07-14 · 5m
43. 43 43. Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland2022-07-19 · 6m
44. 44 44. The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries2022-07-22 · 6m
45. 45 45. Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s2022-08-01 · 6m
46. 46 46. Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands2022-08-04 · 6m
47. 47 47. Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year2022-08-09 · 6m
48. 48 48. Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona2022-08-12 · 5m
49. 49 49. Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year2022-08-16 · 6m
50. 50 50. The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating2022-08-22 · 6m
51. 51 51. We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year2022-08-25 · 6m
52. 52 52. The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other2022-08-31 · 6m
53. 53 53. Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border2022-09-06 · 7m
54. 54 54. The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year2022-09-12 · 5m
55. 55 55. How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System2022-09-14 · 6m
56. 56 56. Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop2022-09-20 · 6m
57. 57 57. Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency2022-09-28 · 6m
58. 58 58. Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie2022-09-30 · 7m
59. 59 59. Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution2022-10-07 · 7m
60. 60 60. Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US2022-10-13 · 6m
61. 61 61. The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake2022-10-15 · 6m
62. 62 62. Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s2022-10-22
63. 63 63. Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem2022-10-27
64. 64 64. Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?2022-11-01
65. 65 65. Why DC's Shaped Like That2022-11-08
66. 66 66. Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam2022-11-10
67. 67 67. All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries2022-11-15
68. 68 68. The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die2022-11-18
69. 69 69. Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US2022-11-22
70. 70 70. The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure2022-12-02
71. 71 71. Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System2022-12-06 · 6m
72. 72 72. Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste2022-12-09
73. 73 73. Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day2022-12-15 · 6m
74. 74 74. The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land2022-12-22 · 6m
75. 75 75. Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)2022-12-27 · 6m
76. 76 76. How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World2022-12-30 · 6m