Season 2023 2023

Season Premiere

2023x01 Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard

• 2023-01-04T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x02 The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite

• 2023-01-11T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x03 Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore

• 2023-01-18T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x04 The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke

• 2023-01-20T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x05 The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal

• 2023-01-21T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x06 Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income

• 2023-01-30T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x07 The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town

• 2023-02-02T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x08 How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity

• 2023-02-05T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x09 Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

• 2023-02-13T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x10 Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River

• 2023-02-16T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x11 The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota

• 2023-02-22T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x12 How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts

• 2023-02-24T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x13 Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules

• 2023-03-01T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x14 Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine

• 2023-03-06T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x15 Why American Lawns All Look The Same

• 2023-03-09T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x16 The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System

• 2023-03-16T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x17 North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program

• 2023-03-18T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x18 How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate

• 2023-03-23T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x19 How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office

• 2023-03-28T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x20 The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida

• 2023-03-31T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x21 How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery

• 2023-04-07T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x22 The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama

• 2023-04-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x23 The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It

• 2023-04-15T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x24 This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)

• 2023-04-24T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x25 Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship

• 2023-04-28T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x26 The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City

• 2023-05-01T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x27 How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets

• 2023-05-07T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x28 How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?

• 2023-05-09T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x29 The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws

• 2023-05-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x30 Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power

• 2023-05-20T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x31 Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap

• 2023-05-23T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x32 The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague

• 2023-05-26T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x33 Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel

• 2023-06-05T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x34 How Planes Forecast Turbulence

• 2023-06-08T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x35 Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback

• 2023-06-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x36 How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots

• 2023-06-16T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x37 How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work

• 2023-06-22T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x38 The Intense Logistics of Truffles

• 2023-06-26T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x39 Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire

• 2023-06-30T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x40 How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything

• 2023-07-04T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x41 We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.

• 2023-07-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x42 Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana

• 2023-07-15T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x43 Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month

• 2023-07-18T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x44 Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves

• 2023-07-21T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x45 How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche

• 2023-07-31T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x46 Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns

• 2023-08-04T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x47 The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans

• 2023-08-08T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x48 Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake

• 2023-08-10T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x49 Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport

• 2023-08-16T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x50 The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires

• 2023-08-22T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x51 How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building

• 2023-08-29T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x52 The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns

• 2023-08-30T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x53 Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie

• 2023-08-31T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x54 The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World

• 2023-09-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x55 Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant

• 2023-09-19T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x56 The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

• 2023-09-21T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x57 How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection

• 2023-09-28T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x58 How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

• 2023-09-29T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x59 Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works

• 2023-09-30T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x60 The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal

• 2023-10-06T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x61 Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water

• 2023-10-12T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x62 How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

• 2023-10-20T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x63 Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC

• 2023-10-25T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x64 Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide

• 2023-10-26T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x65 How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing

• 2023-10-28T14:00:00Z — 6m

2023x66 How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town

• 2023-11-06T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x67 Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies

• 2023-11-15T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x68 The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU

• 2023-11-17T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x69 Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht

• 2023-11-21T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x70 The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse

• 2023-11-27T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x71 NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars

• 2023-11-30T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x72 The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold

• 2023-12-07T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x73 The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling

• 2023-12-12T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x74 What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag

• 2023-12-19T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x75 The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use

• 2023-12-26T15:00:00Z — 6m

2023x76 Why China Took the US’ Pandas

• 2023-12-28T15:00:00Z — 6m