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Last updated on Nov 28, 2023
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Why cheating is allowed on game shows
10:54
Why useless decongestants are still for sale
9:53
Why Silicon Valley is here
8:47
Oppenheimer’s secret city, explained
9:06
Why Disney World is in Florida
10:26
Why you’re probably not doing your “dream job”
6:00
An AI artist explains his workflow
8:18
How TikTok dances trained an AI to see
8:08
Can AI kill the greenscreen?
8:31
Why AI doesn't speak every language
10:15
Why AI art struggles with hands
9:57
Why the dyslexic brain is misunderstood
7:19
Ozempic is a game-changer. Here’s how it works.
7:12
How America’s richest donate their money
8:34
How South Koreans got so much taller
6:08
Why everything you buy is worse now
8:01
Why the Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats
8:26
How Christmas trees stopped being just a German thing
4:16
How to build a wood skyscraper
12:00
Why this instrument explains Black American folk music
9:02
Why this football pass seems physically impossible
5:15
What it’s like to work in the world’s greatest office
13:37
Why I'm obsessed with these cheap paintings of Paris
9:50
Drag kings, explained by drag kings
8:02
Why roller coaster loops aren't circular
6:27
Why shipping container homes are overrated
10:36
AI art, explained
13:33
We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral
22:38
The hidden history of “Hand Talk”
10:12
The world's biggest wave, explained
17:26
Why Frank Lloyd Wright’s windows look like this
8:27
How Ukrainians are saving art during the war
8:58
Why everyone has this chair
6:02
Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
10:55
The (mostly) true story of “ghost photography"
12:29
How insulated glass changed architecture
7:43
Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps
14:39
Linoleum flooring is cool, actually
6:45
How this house took over the US
8:21
Why the pope dresses like that
6:18
The architecture trend dividing London's elites
6:20
Why so many new buildings are covered in rectangles
8:55
How the 3-point line is breaking basketball
7:14
The mystery of the "same sky" postcards
9:02
How video game rocks get made
6:18
Why people think this photo of JFK's killer is fake
10:58
Why it’s so hard to make CGI skin look real
9:07
Why the US Army tried to exterminate the bison
8:15
These photos sparked a Cold War propaganda feud
10:46
Why the US has two different highway fonts
5:08
How trucker country music became a '70s fad
13:26
Quiet Storm: How 1970s R&B changed late-night radio
24:22
Two theories for an unsolved Soviet mystery
10:44
The bridge design that helped win World War II
6:29
How museum gift shops decide what to sell
5:21
The boxing film that was banned around the world
9:32
The invention that fixed lighthouses
8:12
The phony health craze that inspired hypnotism
9:09
Why visual effects artists love this shiny ball
8:09
Napoleon's missing hand, explained
8:22
How tag became a professional sport
18:19
Was this famous war photo staged? feat. Errol Morris
8:28
The 126-year fight to change Mississippi’s Confederate flag
7:25
The technology that’s replacing the green screen
8:23
How robots made this food commercial look effortless
8:29
How colorized photos helped introduce Japan to the world
8:05
How reality TV shows cast the right people
9:01
When voting rights didn't protect all women
8:29
Tony Hawk breaks down skateboarding’s legendary spots
13:11
How slow motion works
9:41
The story behind this iconic Olympics protest
9:10
Why this font is everywhere
10:21
The 1850s map that changed how we fight outbreaks
6:57
The eclipse photo that made Einstein famous
6:25
The real story behind this war poster
8:32
The right way to play Monopoly
6:37
What the coronavirus looks like up close
5:13
The 8-bit arcade font, deconstructed
8:12
The conspiracy behind this famous statue
5:34
This photo triggered China's Cultural Revolution
6:25
Was this the greatest dog of all time?
6:40
A VFX artist reacts to 5 Oscar-nominated movies
5:42
How to make a movie look like one long shot
4:23
That famous cello prelude, deconstructed
10:20
The original Game of Life was incredibly dark
5:54
2019, in 6 minutes
6:46
The white lie we've been told about Roman statues
5:43
How the fisheye lens took over music
8:34
Why German spies blew up this US island
7:27
Hollywood almost lost to this city
6:55
How an opera gets made
10:30
The trick that made animation realistic
5:13
How stop motion animation began
4:51
Why movies went from 15 minutes to 2 hours
6:08
Where the 1960s "psychedelic" look came from
5:41
Where the 1960s "psychedelic" look came from
5:41
Where the 1960s "psychedelic" look came from
5:41
The first movie with CGI
4:57
Why this chair is on so many album covers
7:35
How Monument Valley became a symbol of the West
4:44