Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard

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The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite

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Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore

The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke

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The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal

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Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income

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The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town

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How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity

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Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

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Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River

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The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota

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How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts

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Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules

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Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine

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Why American Lawns All Look The Same

6 min

The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System

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North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program

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How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate

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How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office

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The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida

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How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery

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The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama

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The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It

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This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)

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Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship

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The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City

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How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets

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How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?

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The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws

6 min

Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power

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Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap

6 min

The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague

7 min

Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel

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How Planes Forecast Turbulence

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Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback

6 min

How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots

6 min

How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work

6 min

The Intense Logistics of Truffles

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Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire

7 min

How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything

7 min

Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana

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Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month

6 min

Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves

6 min

How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche

6 min

Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns

6 min

The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans

7 min

Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake

6 min

Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport

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The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires

6 min

How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building

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The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns

Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie

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The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World

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Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant

7 min

The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

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How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection

7 min

How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

8 min

Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works

7 min

The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal

Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water

7 min

How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

7 min

Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC

Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide

How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing

How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town

7 min

Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies

7 min

The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU

7 min

Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht

The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse

NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars

The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold

The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling

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What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag

The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use

Why China Took the US’ Pandas

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