Season 2022 2022

Season Premiere

2022x01 Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

• 2022-01-04T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x02 The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work

• 2022-01-06T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x03 The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry

• 2022-01-13T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x04 Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years

• 2022-01-20T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x05 Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes

• 2022-01-22T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x06 The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast

• 2022-01-31T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x07 Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City

• 2022-02-02T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x08 Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

• 2022-02-09T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x09 How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years

• 2022-02-11T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x10 Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square

• 2022-02-16T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x11 How to Start Your Own Town

• 2022-02-19T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x12 The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm

• 2022-02-28T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x13 Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously

• 2022-03-02T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x14 Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight

• 2022-03-04T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x15 Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever

• 2022-03-10T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x16 Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?

• 2022-03-16T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x17 Why This Sound is Illegal to Play

• 2022-03-18T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x18 You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.

• 2022-03-25T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x19 Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos

• 2022-03-29T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x20 Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

• 2022-03-31T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x21 Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

• 2022-04-08T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x22 The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code

• 2022-04-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x23 Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp

• 2022-04-14T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x24 How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute

• 2022-04-21T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x25 The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2

• 2022-04-27T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x26 Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive

• 2022-04-29T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x27 ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means

• 2022-05-06T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x28 How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise

• 2022-05-10T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x29 Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination

• 2022-05-20T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x30 How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From

• 2022-05-24T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x31 Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village

• 2022-05-26T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x32 Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company

• 2022-05-31T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x33 How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret

• 2022-06-02T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x34 Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona

• 2022-06-07T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x35 Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012

• 2022-06-09T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x36 Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore

• 2022-06-16T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x37 Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph

• 2022-06-21T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x38 How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote

• 2022-06-28T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x39 Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline

• 2022-06-30T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x40 The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)

• 2022-07-05T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x41 The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying

• 2022-07-08T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x42 The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

• 2022-07-14T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x43 Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

• 2022-07-19T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x44 The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

• 2022-07-22T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x45 Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s

• 2022-08-01T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x46 Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands

• 2022-08-04T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x47 Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year

• 2022-08-09T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x48 Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona

• 2022-08-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x49 Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year

• 2022-08-16T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x50 The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating

• 2022-08-22T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x51 We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year

• 2022-08-25T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x52 The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other

• 2022-08-31T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x53 Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border

• 2022-09-06T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x54 The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year

• 2022-09-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x55 How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System

• 2022-09-14T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x56 Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop

• 2022-09-20T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x57 Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency

• 2022-09-28T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x58 Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie

• 2022-09-30T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x59 Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution

• 2022-10-07T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x60 Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US

• 2022-10-13T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x61 The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake

• 2022-10-15T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x62 Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s

• 2022-10-22T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x63 Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem

• 2022-10-27T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x64 Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?

• 2022-11-01T14:00:00Z — 6m

2022x65 Why DC's Shaped Like That

• 2022-11-08T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x66 Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam

• 2022-11-10T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x67 All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

• 2022-11-15T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x68 The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die

• 2022-11-18T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x69 Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US

• 2022-11-22T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x70 The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure

• 2022-12-02T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x71 Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System

• 2022-12-06T15:00:00Z — 5m

2022x72 Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

• 2022-12-09T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x73 Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day

• 2022-12-15T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x74 The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land

• 2022-12-22T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x75 Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)

• 2022-12-27T15:00:00Z — 6m

2022x76 How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World

• 2022-12-30T15:00:00Z — 6m