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S2018 · E47 — Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space
S2018:E47 · Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space
53 episodes in this season
Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence
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Why Samoa Skipped December 30, 2011
Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway
The 809 Objects Left on the Moon
Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses
How This Pacific Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance
What’s the Longest Train in the World?
The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country
Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents
Why It's Illegal to be Named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
How 29,000 Lost Rubber Ducks Helped Map the World's Oceans
How Real Mind Control Works
Why These Words are Illegal
How to Make an Emoji
The 3,713 Page Document That Makes or Breaks Economies
Why Diplomats Can't be Arrested
Why There Are Thousands of Giant Arrows Across the US
The $289,500 New York Hot Dog Stand License
Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)
Why 11 Babies Have Been Born in Antarctica
How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret
Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart
That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space
How an Island Lost Its Fortune Making a Terrible Musical
Why the World's Smallest Country Has a Railroad
The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World
The Italian Town That's Not in Italy (or the EU... kind of)
Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia
Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere
The Somewhat Secret Subway System Under the US Capitol
Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba
The Country That Used to Exist Between the US and Canada
The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam
The Secretive Book That Names All the Cheaters in Vegas
The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile
Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made
The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months
The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps
Why Iceland Imports Ice
The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years
Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth
How A Massive Dam in China Slowed the Earth's Rotation
Why It's Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons
How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada
How This Island Near Australia Was Undiscovered
The Man Who Was Stuck in Paris Airport for 18 Years
Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space
Why This Island Might be in Canada or Might be in the US
The Secret Train Station Under New York City
The 32-Hour Longest Commercial Flight in History
What's the Shortest International Border in the World?
Centralia: The Town That's Been on Fire Since 1962
Why It’s (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors
