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Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful

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Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018

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New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA

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What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?

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Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet

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Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel

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The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies

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How Forensic Linguistics Works

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How the Nuclear Football Works

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Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean

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The Logistics of 911

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The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use

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Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed

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The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey

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The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution

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Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works

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The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America

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557K views - 4 months ago

The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck

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465K views - 4 months ago

The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink

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353K views - 4 months ago

Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky

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545K views - 5 months ago

The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage

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410K views - 5 months ago

The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design

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The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette

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This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time

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How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes

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The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree

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Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015

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348K views - 6 months ago

How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People

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The US Military’s Fast Food Division

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Why It’s So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are

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367K views - 7 months ago

How FEMA’s Doomsday Radio System Works

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517K views - 7 months ago

The US Military’s Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System

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314K views - 7 months ago

The Design of the World’s Most Secure Banknote

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313K views - 8 months ago

How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?

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239K views - 8 months ago

How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain

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387K views - 8 months ago

How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital

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259K views - 8 months ago

The Risky Logistics of Alaska’s Food Supply Chain

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508K views - 8 months ago

Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC

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424K views - 9 months ago

Why Does the World’s Biggest Ship Exist?

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France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ

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397K views - 9 months ago

Why There’s a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert

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All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway

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The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)

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208K views - 10 months ago

The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs

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260K views - 10 months ago

The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones

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The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island

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464K views - 10 months ago

The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against

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401K views - 11 months ago

Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System

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The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC

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The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball

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Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks

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434K views - 1 year ago

Why the US’ 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed

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416K views - 1 year ago

Why Isn’t There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?

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503K views - 1 year ago

The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog

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432K views - 1 year ago

How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?

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305K views - 1 year ago

The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls

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433K views - 1 year ago

The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie

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335K views - 1 year ago

The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not “Live” in NYC

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820K views - 1 year ago

The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada

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Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer

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