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S2025 · E24 — The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog
S2025:E24 · The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog
52 episodes in this season
Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean
9 min
How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car
The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain
7 min
This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million
8 min
The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It
The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets
Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed
The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy
500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About
The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple
The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices
How to Design the Perfect F1 Track
The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets
How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works
All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia
Why Isn’t There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World?
The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10
Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer
The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada
The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not “Live” in NYC
The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie
The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls
How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?
The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog
Why Isn’t There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?
Why the US’ 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed
Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks
The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball
The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC
Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System
The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against
The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island
The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones
The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs
The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)
All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway
Why There’s a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert
France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ
Why Does the World’s Biggest Ship Exist?
Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC
The Risky Logistics of Alaska’s Food Supply Chain
How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital
How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain
How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?
The Design of the World’s Most Secure Banknote
The US Military’s Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System
6 min
How FEMA’s Doomsday Radio System Works
Why It’s So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are
The US Military’s Fast Food Division
How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People
Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015
The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree
