S2021E56 24 septembre 2021 6 min

How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret

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What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws

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How the World's Newest Language Developed

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How the World's Most Complicated Language Works

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Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes

The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving

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Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope

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The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan

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How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret

Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City

The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally

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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

Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year

How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions

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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