Season 2022

1. Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

2. The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work

3. The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry

4. Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years

5. Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes

6. The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast

7. Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City

8. Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

9. How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years

10. Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square

11. How to Start Your Own Town

12. The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm

13. Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously

14. Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight

15. Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever

16. Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?

17. Why This Sound is Illegal to Play

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

19. Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos

20. Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

21. Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

22. The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code

23. Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp

24. How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute

25. The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2

26. Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive

27. ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means

28. How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise

29. Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination

30. How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From

31. Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village

32. Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company

33. How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret

34. Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona

35. Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012

36. Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore

37. Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph

38. How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote

39. Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline

40. The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)

41. The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying

42. The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

43. Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

44. The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

45. Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s

46. Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands

47. Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year

48. Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona

49. Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year

50. The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating

51. We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year

52. The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other

53. Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border

54. The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year

55. How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System

56. Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop

57. Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency

58. Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie

59. Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution

60. Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US

61. The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake

62. Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s

63. Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem

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

65. Why DC's Shaped Like That

66. Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam

67. All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

68. The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die

69. Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US

70. The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure

71. Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System

72. Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

73. Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day

74. The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land

75. Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)

76. How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World