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Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year

Nov 18, 20216 min
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Season 2021 Episodes81

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E1

What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws

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E2

The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison

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E3

Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England

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Why There's an American National Park in Canada

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E5

Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans

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E6

Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words

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E7

Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer

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Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile

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Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids

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E10

The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser

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E11

The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare

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E12

Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents

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This is a Video About Bricks

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E14

The Year Without a Summer Season

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E15

Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"

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E16

The US' Butter Size Border

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E17

Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort

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E18

The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know

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E19

How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours

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E20

Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels

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E21

How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life

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E22

Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground

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E23

How the World's Newest Language Developed

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E24

What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?

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E25

How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe

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E26

Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest

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E27

How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections

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E28

Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant

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E29

Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland

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E30

How the World's Most Complicated Language Works

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E31

What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?

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E32

How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works

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E33

The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers

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E34

Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US

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E35

How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill

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E36

Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second

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E37

Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)

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E38

Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today

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E39

What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?

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E40

The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You

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E41

Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula

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E42

Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)

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E43

Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes

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E44

The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving

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E45

How to Decode Credit Card Numbers

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E46

The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code

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E47

Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases

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E48

Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week

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E49

Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off

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E50

Hooters' Very Real Airline

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E51

Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope

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E52

The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)

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E53

Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed

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E54

The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan

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E55

How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret

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E56

How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret

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E57

Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City

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E58

The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally

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E59

Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England

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E60

A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy

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E61

Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645

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E62

Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists

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E63

Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze

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E64

Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is

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E65

The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans

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E66

Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year

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E67

Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records

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E68

Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere

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E69

Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon

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Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year

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E71

How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions

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E72

Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February

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E73

Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo

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E74

Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027

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E75

How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks

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E76

Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole

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E77

Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US

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E78

Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East

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E79

Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant

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E80

The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding

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E81

Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?

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Episode Summary

"Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year" is episode 70 of Half as Interesting season 2021. It aired on November 18, 2021.