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

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

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How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car

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The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices

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How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche

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The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs

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The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold

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How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building

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The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain

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The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie

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How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?

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Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power

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How to Decode Credit Card Numbers

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Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer

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

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The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

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The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones

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How to Design the Perfect F1 Track

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How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

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How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

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How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

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Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

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

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All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

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Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

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How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

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The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It

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How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

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How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office

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The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)

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The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal

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The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets

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

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The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use

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The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm

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Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

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The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

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The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

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How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

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Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine

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The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU

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Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

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The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

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Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

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

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The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

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Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht

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The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple