0:51 the last payphone The last payphone in New York City
0:50 the statue The dog who waited 9 years at Shibuya Station
0:49 the bottle The oldest message in a bottle ever found (1886)
0:50 the footprint Why the first footprint on the Moon is still there
0:51 the crane Why people fold 1,000 paper cranes
0:51 the first web page The first website ever made is still online
0:48 the lighthouse What happened to the lighthouse keepers?
1:01 the duck How 28,800 lost rubber ducks mapped the ocean (1992)
1:05 the volcano Krakatau 1883: the loudest sound in recorded history
0:58 the bulb The light bulb that has been on since 1901
1:03 the banana The $6.2 million banana taped to a wall
1:04 the pigeon Cher Ami: the pigeon who saved the Lost Battalion (1918)
1:00 the tower Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa never fell
1:02 the typewriter The borrowed typewriter that typed Indonesia's independence
1:01 the painting The 1911 theft that made the Mona Lisa world-famous
1:06 the stone The Rosetta Stone: how one rock taught us to read ancient Egypt
1:07 the stone Borobudur: buried by ash, found in 1814, rebuilt stone by stone
0:59 the tower The Eiffel Tower was meant to be torn down. Radio saved it.
1:00 the letter Kartini: the letters that brought light after darkness
0:59 the starter The sourdough starter that's been alive since 1849
1:07 the pinisi The pinisi: Indonesia's wooden ships built without blueprints
0:59 the mould Penicillin: the mouldy dish that changed medicine
1:08 the stopwatch The first marathon under two hours: Kipchoge in Vienna, 2019
0:59 the statue Why the Statue of Liberty is green (and why she was almost painted)
0:57 the violin The violin that first played Indonesia's anthem in 1928
1:00 the bobsled The real story of Jamaica's 1988 Olympic bobsled team
1:06 the box The steel box that changed the world: the first container ship (1956)
1:06 the flyer From 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk to Mars: the Wright Flyer's journey
1:00 the soldier The Terracotta Army: 8,000 clay soldiers found by farmers digging a well
1:06 the bonsai The 400-year-old bonsai that survived Hiroshima
1:05 the shuttlecock The shuttlecock from Indonesia's first Olympic gold (Barcelona 1992)
1:03 the mechanism The Antikythera mechanism: a 2,000-year-old computer from a shipwreck
0:50 the tea bowl Kintsugi: the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold
1:00 the paperclip How one red paperclip was traded up to a house
1:05 the crossbar The Fosbury Flop: the backwards jump that changed the high jump forever (1968)
0:59 the football The Christmas Truce of 1914: when enemies stopped to play
0:57 the water drop Subak: Bali's thousand-year-old system for sharing water fairly
1:05 the seed Methuselah: the 2,000-year-old seed that brought back an extinct tree
1:02 the oak The Tree That Owns Itself (and its son)
0:59 the word Why we say 'hello' on the phone (and not 'ahoy') No story matches that yet.