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S2020 · E34 — Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
S2020:E34 · Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
77 episodes in this season
How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
5 min
Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
7 min
The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
6 min
The Highway Where Cars are Banned
How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
The Airport Where Planes go to Die
The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
Who Owns the Rain?
How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
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Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
8 min
How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
How Astronauts Vote from Space
Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
