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The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10 8:18

The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10

Why Isn’t There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World? 8:24

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

All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia 7:08

All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia

How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works 8:33

How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works

The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets 8:22

The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets

How to Design the Perfect F1 Track 8:00

How to Design the Perfect F1 Track

The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices 6:53

The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices

The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple 8:24

The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple

500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About 7:51

500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About

The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy 8:22

The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy

Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed 8:04

Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed

The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets 8:15

The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets

The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It 8:50

The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It

This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million 8:02

This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million

The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain 7:15

The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain

How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car 8:39

How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car

Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean 8:38

Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean

The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau 8:01

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

How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole 6:49

How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole

How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days 8:54

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

The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team 8:34

The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours 8:17

How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes 8:25

How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes

The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship 8:37

The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever 8:38

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

How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works 8:35

How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency 9:17

How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market 8:54

How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth 8:08

How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water 8:46

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

How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer 8:08

How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans 7:05

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

The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S. 7:57

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

The Massively Bureaucratic  System for Confirming a “Miracle” 8:41

The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year 7:30

The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People 8:27

The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp 8:10

The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics 8:36

The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train 8:13

The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses 8:24

How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works 8:47

How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable 9:12

How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time 8:30

How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System 8:13

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

The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea 8:19

The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means 9:24

Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week 8:18

Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps 8:39

Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho 8:37

Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri 8:22

The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors 9:32

The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong 9:21

Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million 9:06

How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks 7:59

The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel 7:43

The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up) 8:00

How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes? 8:23

Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

The Logistics of Prescribed Fires 9:23

The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot 9:13

Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC 7:43

Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana 6:09

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

Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome 7:19

Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other 5:55

Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand 7:28

How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density 7:05

The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

The Logistics of White House State Dinners 6:35

The Logistics of White House State Dinners

The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students 7:22

The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes 6:33

Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof 7:14

How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons 6:42

How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible 6:45

The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert 6:29

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

South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere 6:52

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

Why China Took the US’ Pandas 7:37

Why China Took the US’ Pandas

The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use 7:18

The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use

What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag 7:00

What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag

The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling 7:37

The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling

The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold 6:35

The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold

NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars 6:44

NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars

The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse 7:36

The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse

Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht 6:45

Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht

The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU 6:50

The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU

Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies 6:33

Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies

How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town 6:49

How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town

How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing 6:57

How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing

Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide 6:34

Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide

Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC 7:04

Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC

How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below 7:09

How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water 6:43

Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water

The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal 6:35

The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal

Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works 6:51

Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works

How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works 7:34

How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection 6:56

How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection

The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific 6:28

The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant 7:06

Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant

The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World 6:40

The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World

Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie 6:08

Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie

The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns 6:30

The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns

How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building 5:55

How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building

The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires 6:22

The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires

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