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S2021 · E24 — What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
S2021:E24 · What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
81 episodes in this season
What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
6 min
The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
7 min
Why There's an American National Park in Canada
Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
This is a Video About Bricks
13 min
The Year Without a Summer Season
Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
The US' Butter Size Border
Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
How the World's Newest Language Developed
What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
8 min
Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
5 min
What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
12 min
Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
Hooters' Very Real Airline
Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
9 min
The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
2 min
The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
1 min
Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
