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How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

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How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

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How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

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How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

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

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How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

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

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

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The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

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The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

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The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

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The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

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The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

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The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

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How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

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How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

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How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

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How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

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

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The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

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Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

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Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

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Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

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Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

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The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

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The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

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Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

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How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

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The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

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The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

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How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

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Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

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The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

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Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

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Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

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

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Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

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Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

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How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

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The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

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The Logistics of White House State Dinners

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The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

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Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

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How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

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How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

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The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

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

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