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Season 2021 · Episode 80

The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding

0.06mDecember 23, 2021

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Episode 1What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
Episode 2The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
Episode 3Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
Episode 4Why There's an American National Park in Canada
Episode 5Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
Episode 6Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
Episode 7Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
Episode 8Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
Episode 9Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
Episode 10The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
Episode 11The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
Episode 12Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
Episode 13This is a Video About Bricks
Episode 14The Year Without a Summer Season
Episode 15Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
Episode 16The US' Butter Size Border
Episode 17Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
Episode 18The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
Episode 19How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
Episode 20Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
Episode 21How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
Episode 22Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
Episode 23How the World's Newest Language Developed
Episode 24What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
Episode 25How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
Episode 26Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
Episode 27How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
Episode 28Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
Episode 29Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
Episode 30How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
Episode 31What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
Episode 32How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
Episode 33The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
Episode 34Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
Episode 35How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
Episode 36Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
Episode 37Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
Episode 38Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
Episode 39What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
Episode 40The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
Episode 41Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
Episode 42Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
Episode 43Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
Episode 44The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
Episode 45How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
Episode 46The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
Episode 47Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
Episode 48Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
Episode 49Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
Episode 50Hooters' Very Real Airline
Episode 51Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
Episode 52The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
Episode 53Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
Episode 54The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
Episode 55How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
Episode 56How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
Episode 57Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
Episode 58The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
Episode 59Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
Episode 60A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
Episode 61Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
Episode 62Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
Episode 63Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
Episode 64Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
Episode 65The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
Episode 66Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
Episode 67Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
Episode 68Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
Episode 69Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
Episode 70Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
Episode 71How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
Episode 72Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
Episode 73Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
Episode 74Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
Episode 75How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
Episode 76Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
Episode 77Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
Episode 78Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
Episode 79Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
Episode 80The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
Episode 81Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?