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Making an International Standard Cup of Tea
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How Formation Flying Works (feat. the Red Arrows!)
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Why European Clocks are Running Slow, and British Clocks Aren't
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The Moiré Effect Lights That Guide Ships Home
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Canada's Most Successful King
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A Language Made Of Music
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Sign Language Isn't Universal
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The Null Hypothesis
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Batman's Village of Fools: Gotham, England
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Why Hold Music Sounds Worse Now
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What Is Sea Level, Anyway?
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The Centuries-Old Debt That's Still Paying Interest
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The US Government's $983 Freeze-Dried Urine
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What Counts as a Mountain?
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I Can't Show You How Pink This Pink Is
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Why Old Screens Make A ᴴᶦᵍʰ ᴾᶦᵗᶜʰᵉᵈ Noise
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The Runways of Fire That Let WW2 Planes Land In Fog: FIDO
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Why Sci-Fi Alien Planets Look The Same: Hollywood's Thirty-Mile Zone
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Voyager 1's Getting Closer to Earth Right Now
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Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories
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Why Song Translations Usually Suck
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The Foil That Went To The Moon And Back
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The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
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You Can Hear The Difference Between Hot and Cold Water
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One Town, Four Elements: Ytterby
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The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand
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ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone
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The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets
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Fallout Shelters and Zurich's Water: Swiss Resilience
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Why YouTube Streams Don't Count For Christmas № 1
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In Old Movies, Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?
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Wheels, Bombs, and Perpetual Motion Machines
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The City of the Dead: Colma, California
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The World's Most Famous Teapot: The Utah Teapot
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3D Printing Stainless Steel with Giant Robot Arms
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The Spider Dress That Reacts To Personal Space Invaders
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The Grave of the Man Who Never Was: Operation Mincemeat
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The Bizarre Plan to Drain the Mediterranean: Atlantropa
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The Solar Power Towers of Southern Spain
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Cold Wars, Cruise Ships, and the Northwest Passage
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ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ and ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ
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Internet to the Arctic: A Greenlandic Relay Station
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No-One Knows Who Got To The North Pole First
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The Front Falls Off: Glaciers Don't Go Backwards
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Seeing Things: Visual Disturbances We All Experience
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Why Mountain Dew Rots Your Teeth More Than Coca-Cola
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The Battery That's Lasted 176 Years
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The Problem With Renewable Energy (and how we're fixing it)
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The Mushroom Cloud Over Britain: RAF Fauld and the Hanbury Crater
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The Fake Vinegar In British Fish and Chip Shops
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The Man Who Invented, Then Hated, Shopping Malls
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Nobody's Exactly Sure How Much A Kilogram Is Right Now
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The Flower That Smells Like Death
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Why You Can't Advertise Cancer Cures In Britain
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Help, My Fusion Reactor's Making A Weird Noise
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In Norway, Everyone Can Know How Much You Earn
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American Alcohol Has To Be Radioactive
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Why You Should Write Down Your Goals
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Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery
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Power, Politics and Pragmatism: The British National Grid
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What Counts as the World's Largest Clock?
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How To Make Snow
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Calling The Police Doesn't Charge Your Phone Battery
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Crosswalks Don't Always Make You Safer
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Why Britain Sucks At Product Placement
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Automated Weapons and the Battlefield of 2050
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Drones, Deserts and Danger
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How The Rosetta Stone Unlocked Hieroglyphics
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The Collapsed Dam That Stopped Los Angeles
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Why I Can't Show You The H******** S***
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The Bielefeld Conspiracy
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Britain's End-of-the-World Bunkers
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The Man Who Had Himself Taxidermied: Jeremy Bentham
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The Secret Underground Pipeline Across Britain
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G-Forces, Gliders, and Graveyard Spirals
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The Abandoned Village of Imber: How Far Can Emergency Powers Go?
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Hovercraft, Concorde, and the Dreams of the 1970s
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The Weirdest Bridge in Wales: The Newport Transporter Bridge
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The Giant Cranes and Robots That Keep Civilisation Running
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The Sightlines of London
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The Toxic Blue Lagoon of Buxton
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Paternoster Lifts: Dangerous, Obsolete and Quite Fun (including over the top!)
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The Most Complex Borders in Europe: Why Do We Have Nations?
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The Fictional Bridges That Became Real
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How The Netherlands Stopped The Wind
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Risk, Immortality, and the Terrifying Pulpit Rock
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Ships, Mines and Magnetism
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7 Illegal Things To Do In A British Election
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The 400,000,000-Year Link Between Scotland and Canada
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How To Make Something One Atom Thick
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Turnpikes and Tolls: What if all major roads were private?
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How to Program a Quantum Computer (sort of)
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The Driverless Cars of Greenwich
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How Green Screen Worked Before Computers
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How Many Colours Are In A Rainbow?
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The British Rail Flying Saucer
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The Magic Roundabout: Swindon's Terrifying Traffic Circle and Emergent Behaviour
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Why The Prime Meridian Isn't At 0º
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Why Doesn't Britain Have Rabies?
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Can It Be "Too Cold To Snow"?
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