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1. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere

2. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert

3. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

4. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

5. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

6. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

7. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

8. The Logistics of White House State Dinners

9. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana

14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

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17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System

31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.

42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans

43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water

45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever

50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes

52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days

55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole

56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau