Season 2022

2

EP 2

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

Jan 6, 2022

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3

EP 3

The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry

Jan 13, 2022

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4

EP 4

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

Jan 20, 2022

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5

EP 5

Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes

Jan 22, 2022

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6

EP 6

The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast

Jan 31, 2022

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7

EP 7

Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City

Feb 2, 2022

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8

EP 8

Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

Feb 9, 2022

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9

EP 9

How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years

Feb 11, 2022

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10

EP 10

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

Feb 16, 2022

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11

EP 11

How to Start Your Own Town

Feb 19, 2022

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12

EP 12

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

Feb 28, 2022

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13

EP 13

Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously

Mar 2, 2022

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14

EP 14

Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight

Mar 4, 2022

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15

EP 15

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

Mar 10, 2022

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16

EP 16

Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?

Mar 16, 2022

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17

EP 17

Why This Sound is Illegal to Play

Mar 18, 2022

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18

EP 18

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

Mar 25, 2022

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19

EP 19

Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos

Mar 29, 2022

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20

EP 20

Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

Mar 31, 2022

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21

EP 21

Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

Apr 8, 2022

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22

EP 22

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

Apr 12, 2022

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23

EP 23

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

Apr 14, 2022

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24

EP 24

How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute

Apr 21, 2022

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25

EP 25

The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2

Apr 27, 2022

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26

EP 26

Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive

Apr 29, 2022

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27

EP 27

⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means

May 6, 2022

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28

EP 28

How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise

May 10, 2022

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29

EP 29

Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination

May 20, 2022

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30

EP 30

How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From

May 24, 2022

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31

EP 31

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

May 26, 2022

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32

EP 32

Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company

May 31, 2022

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33

EP 33

How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret

Jun 2, 2022

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34

EP 34

Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona

Jun 7, 2022

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35

EP 35

Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012

Jun 9, 2022

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36

EP 36

Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore

Jun 16, 2022

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37

EP 37

Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph

Jun 21, 2022

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38

EP 38

How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote

Jun 28, 2022

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39

EP 39

Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline

Jun 30, 2022

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40

EP 40

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

Jul 5, 2022

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41

EP 41

The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying

Jul 8, 2022

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42

EP 42

The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

Jul 14, 2022

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43

EP 43

Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

Jul 19, 2022

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44

EP 44

The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

Jul 22, 2022

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45

EP 45

Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s

Aug 1, 2022

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46

EP 46

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

Aug 4, 2022

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47

EP 47

Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year

Aug 9, 2022

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48

EP 48

Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona

Aug 12, 2022

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49

EP 49

Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year

Aug 16, 2022

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50

EP 50

The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating

Aug 22, 2022

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51

EP 51

We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year

Aug 25, 2022

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52

EP 52

The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other

Aug 31, 2022

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53

EP 53

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

Sep 6, 2022

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54

EP 54

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

Sep 12, 2022

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55

EP 55

How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System

Sep 14, 2022

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56

EP 56

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

Sep 20, 2022

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57

EP 57

Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency

Sep 28, 2022

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58

EP 58

Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie

Sep 30, 2022

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59

EP 59

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

Oct 7, 2022

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60

EP 60

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

Oct 13, 2022

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61

EP 61

The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake

Oct 15, 2022

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62

EP 62

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

Oct 22, 2022

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63

EP 63

Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem

Oct 27, 2022

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64

EP 64

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

Nov 1, 2022

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65

EP 65

Why DC's Shaped Like That

Nov 8, 2022

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66

EP 66

Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam

Nov 10, 2022

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67

EP 67

All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

Nov 15, 2022

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68

EP 68

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

Nov 18, 2022

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69

EP 69

Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US

Nov 22, 2022

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70

EP 70

The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure

Dec 2, 2022

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71

EP 71

Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System

Dec 6, 2022

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72

EP 72

Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

Dec 9, 2022

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73

EP 73

Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day

Dec 15, 2022

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74

EP 74

The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land

Dec 22, 2022

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75

EP 75

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

Dec 27, 2022

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76

EP 76

How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World

Dec 30, 2022

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