| 401. | Why China Took the US’ Pandas | 581,509 | |
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| 402. | The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train | 577,838 | |
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| 403. | The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10 | 573,403 | |
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| 404. | How to Make an Emoji | 572,627 | |
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| 405. | The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile | 571,317 | |
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| 406. | Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake | 568,099 | |
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| 407. | Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo | 562,765 | |
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| 408. | Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England | 562,520 | |
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| 409. | The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors | 561,214 | |
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| 410. | The Tree That Owns Itself | 559,699 | |
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| 411. | The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices | 558,968 | |
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| 412. | How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth | 558,814 | |
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| 413. | Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City | 556,009 | |
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| 414. | Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year | 555,332 | |
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| 415. | How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise | 549,282 | |
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| 416. | How a 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections | 547,622 | |
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| 417. | Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop | 541,321 | |
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| 418. | Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland | 535,932 | |
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| 419. | Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses | 535,062 | |
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| 420. | How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work | 534,880 | |
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| 421. | How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets | 533,654 | |
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| 422. | The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town | 533,315 | |
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| 423. | How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret | 532,831 | |
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| 424. | The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible | 532,728 | |
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| 425. | The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires | 531,017 | |
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| 426. | Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore | 529,848 | |
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| 427. | The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team | 528,965 | |
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| 428. | Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space | 528,470 | |
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| 429. | The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy | 527,282 | |
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| 430. | The Logistics of White House State Dinners | 522,199 | |
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| 431. | Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents | 521,378 | |
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| 432. | How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery | 520,659 | |
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| 433. | Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona | 510,711 | |
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| 434. | How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From | 508,517 | |
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| 435. | Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water | 507,983 | |
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| 436. | The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada | 506,337 | | The Scam
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| 437. | Why DC's Shaped Like That | 505,954 | |
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| 438. | How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works | 505,399 | |
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| 439. | Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort | 504,821 | |
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| 440. | What's the Deadliest Day of the Year? | 504,122 | |
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| 441. | Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is | 499,687 | |
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| 442. | How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town | 497,520 | |
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| 443. | The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students | 495,972 | |
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| 444. | The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density | 484,837 | |
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| 445. | Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East | 484,601 | |
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| 446. | Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England | 483,978 | |
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| 447. | Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US | 479,854 | |
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| 448. | How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days | 477,115 | |
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| 449. | The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans | 476,137 | |
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| 450. | A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy | 475,960 | |
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| 451. | The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite | 475,921 | |
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| 452. | How Real Mind Control Works | 473,835 | |
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| 453. | Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope | 468,435 | |
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| 454. | The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp | 467,619 | |
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| 455. | Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC | 463,004 | |
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| 456. | NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars | 462,512 | |
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| 457. | The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws | 461,231 | |
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| 458. | Hooters' Very Real Airline | 461,109 | |
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| 459. | Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels | 455,528 | |
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| 460. | We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year | 450,905 | |
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| 461. | The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball | 450,334 | |
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| 462. | How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter | 442,620 | |
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| 463. | Why Isn’t There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip? | 441,066 | |
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| 464. | How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million | 439,602 | |
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| 465. | The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle” | 438,614 | |
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| 466. | How Astronauts Vote from Space | 437,072 | |
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| 467. | The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC | 435,267 | |
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| 468. | Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works | 434,796 | |
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| 469. | The Intense Logistics of Truffles | 433,434 | |
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| 470. | How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts | 428,605 | |
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| 471. | How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System | 419,060 | Guide |
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| 472. | How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof | 414,940 | |
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| 473. | The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns | 413,366 | |
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| 474. | Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona | 409,251 | |
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| 475. | Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair | 404,682 | |
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| 476. | The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad) | 402,838 | |
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| 477. | The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls | 401,965 | |
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| 478. | How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below | 399,743 | |
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| 479. | How Planes Forecast Turbulence | 397,488 | |
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| 480. | How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada | 396,282 | |
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| 481. | Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water | 394,542 | |
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| 482. | The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World | 388,362 | |
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| 483. | This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos) | 385,216 | |
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| 484. | The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare | 381,978 | |
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| 485. | The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans | 376,439 | |
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| 486. | Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant | 374,952 | |
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| 487. | The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code | 373,787 | |
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| 488. | How to Design the Perfect F1 Track | 371,681 | |
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| 489. | The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog | 370,931 | |
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| 490. | Why the US’ 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed | 365,323 | |
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| 491. | Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks | 365,070 | |
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| 492. | Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution | 358,596 | |
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| 493. | The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple | 357,722 | |
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| 494. | The Logistics of Prescribed Fires | 357,403 | |
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| 495. | Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second | 355,872 | |
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| 496. | The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really) | 354,159 | |
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| 497. | Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake) | 353,307 | |
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| 498. | 500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About | 352,135 | |
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| 499. | Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System | 350,143 | |
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| 500. | What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens? | 348,876 | |
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