Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence

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Why Samoa Skipped December 30, 2011

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Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway

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The 809 Objects Left on the Moon

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Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses

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How This Pacific Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance

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What’s the Longest Train in the World?

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The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country

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Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents

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Why It's Illegal to be Named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116

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How 29,000 Lost Rubber Ducks Helped Map the World's Oceans

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How Real Mind Control Works

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Why These Words are Illegal

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How to Make an Emoji

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The 3,713 Page Document That Makes or Breaks Economies

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Why Diplomats Can't be Arrested

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Why There Are Thousands of Giant Arrows Across the US

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The $289,500 New York Hot Dog Stand License

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Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)

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Why 11 Babies Have Been Born in Antarctica

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How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret

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Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart

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That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space

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How an Island Lost Its Fortune Making a Terrible Musical

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Why the World's Smallest Country Has a Railroad

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The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World

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The Italian Town That's Not in Italy (or the EU... kind of)

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Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia

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Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere

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The Somewhat Secret Subway System Under the US Capitol

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Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba

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The Country That Used to Exist Between the US and Canada

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The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam

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The Secretive Book That Names All the Cheaters in Vegas

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The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile

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Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made

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The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months

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The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps

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Why Iceland Imports Ice

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The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years

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Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth

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How A Massive Dam in China Slowed the Earth's Rotation

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How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada

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How This Island Near Australia Was Undiscovered

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The Man Who Was Stuck in Paris Airport for 18 Years

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Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space

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Why This Island Might be in Canada or Might be in the US

5 min

The Secret Train Station Under New York City

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The 32-Hour Longest Commercial Flight in History

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What's the Shortest International Border in the World?

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Centralia: The Town That's Been on Fire Since 1962

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Why It’s (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors

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