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The Logistics of 911

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404.9K views - 1 week ago

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

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339.9K views - 1 week ago

Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed

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296.8K views - 1 week ago

The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey

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287.3K views - 3 weeks ago

The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution

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154.3K views - 4 weeks ago

Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works

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314.8K views - 1 month ago

The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America

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The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck

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430.5K views - 1 month ago

The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink

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345.2K views - 1 month ago

Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky

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The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage

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403.2K views - 1 month ago

The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design

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395.4K views - 1 month ago

The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette

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285.3K views - 1 month ago

This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time

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292.4K views - 3 months ago

How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes

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918.9K views - 3 months ago

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

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376.9K views - 3 months ago

Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015

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339.1K views - 3 months ago

How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People

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326.3K views - 3 months ago

The US Military’s Fast Food Division

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391.4K views - 4 months ago

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

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358.9K views - 4 months ago

How FEMA’s Doomsday Radio System Works

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509.6K views - 4 months ago

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

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309.8K views - 5 months ago

The Design of the World’s Most Secure Banknote

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303.2K views - 5 months ago

How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?

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233.4K views - 5 months ago

How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain

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380.3K views - 5 months ago

How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital

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255.5K views - 5 months ago

The Risky Logistics of Alaska’s Food Supply Chain

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500K views - 6 months ago

Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC

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411.6K views - 6 months ago

Why Does the World’s Biggest Ship Exist?

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976.2K views - 6 months ago

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

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382.2K views - 6 months ago

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

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563.8K views - 6 months ago

All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway

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435.5K views - 6 months ago

The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)

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202.6K views - 7 months ago

The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs

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253.3K views - 7 months ago

The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones

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243.7K views - 7 months ago

The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island

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349.3K views - 8 months ago

The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against

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396.2K views - 8 months ago

Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System

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441.9K views - 8 months ago

The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC

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495.5K views - 8 months ago

The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball

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798.2K views - 8 months ago

Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks

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429.3K views - 9 months ago

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

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408.1K views - 9 months ago

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

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495.9K views - 9 months ago

The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog

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423.4K views - 9 months ago

How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?

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299.8K views - 9 months ago

The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls

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428.7K views - 10 months ago

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

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331.9K views - 10 months ago

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

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811.1K views - 10 months ago

The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada

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548.1K views - 10 months ago

Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer

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333.3K views - 11 months ago

The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10

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604.8K views - 11 months ago

Why Isn’t There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World?

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1.6M views - 11 months ago

All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia

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725.6K views - 11 months ago

How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works

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539.5K views - 1 year ago

The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets

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357.9K views - 1 year ago

How to Design the Perfect F1 Track

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454.5K views - 1 year ago

The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices

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591.6K views - 1 year ago

The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple

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380.8K views - 1 year ago

500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About

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378.7K views - 1 year ago

The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy

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569.1K views - 1 year ago