Season 2022
Episodes
1 Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate? Jan 4, 2022 2 The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work Jan 6, 2022 3 The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry Jan 13, 2022 4 Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years Jan 20, 2022 5 Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes Jan 22, 2022 6 The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast Jan 31, 2022 7 Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City Feb 2, 2022 8 Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color Feb 9, 2022 9 How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years Feb 11, 2022 10 Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square Feb 16, 2022 11 How to Start Your Own Town Feb 19, 2022 12 The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm Feb 28, 2022 13 Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously Mar 2, 2022 14 Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight Mar 4, 2022 15 Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever Mar 10, 2022 16 Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British? Mar 16, 2022 17 Why This Sound is Illegal to Play Mar 18, 2022 18 You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones. Mar 25, 2022 19 Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos Mar 29, 2022 20 Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds Mar 31, 2022 21 Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border Apr 8, 2022 22 The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code Apr 12, 2022 23 Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp Apr 14, 2022 24 How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute Apr 21, 2022 25 The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2 Apr 27, 2022 26 Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive Apr 29, 2022 27 ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means May 6, 2022 28 How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise May 10, 2022 29 Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination May 20, 2022 30 How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From May 24, 2022 31 Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village May 26, 2022 32 Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company May 31, 2022 33 How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret Jun 2, 2022 34 Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona Jun 7, 2022 35 Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012 Jun 9, 2022 36 Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore Jun 16, 2022 37 Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph Jun 21, 2022 38 How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote Jun 28, 2022 39 Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline Jun 30, 2022 40 The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really) Jul 5, 2022 41 The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying Jul 8, 2022 42 The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money Jul 14, 2022 43 Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland Jul 19, 2022 44 The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries Jul 22, 2022 45 Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s Aug 1, 2022 46 Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands Aug 4, 2022 47 Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year Aug 9, 2022 48 Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona Aug 12, 2022 49 Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year Aug 16, 2022 50 The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating Aug 22, 2022 51 We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year Aug 25, 2022 52 The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other Aug 31, 2022 53 Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border Sep 6, 2022 54 The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year Sep 12, 2022 55 How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System Sep 14, 2022 56 Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop Sep 20, 2022 57 Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency Sep 28, 2022 58 Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie Sep 30, 2022 59 Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution Oct 7, 2022 60 Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US Oct 13, 2022 61 The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake Oct 15, 2022 62 Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s Oct 22, 2022 63 Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem Oct 27, 2022 64 Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It? Nov 1, 2022 65 Why DC's Shaped Like That Nov 8, 2022 66 Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam Nov 10, 2022 67 All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries Nov 15, 2022 68 The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die Nov 18, 2022 69 Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US Nov 22, 2022 70 The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure Dec 2, 2022 71 Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System Dec 6, 2022 72 Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste Dec 9, 2022 73 Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day Dec 15, 2022 74 The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land Dec 22, 2022 75 Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake) Dec 27, 2022 76 How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World Dec 30, 2022