Las Vegas: The City That Shouldn’t Exist
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the middle of one of the harshest deserts in North America, sits a city that by all rights |
| 0:05.3 | should not exist. What began as a watering hole for ancient peoples became a railroad stop, |
| 0:11.2 | then a gambling outpost, and ultimately one of the most famous cities on Earth. Its story involves |
| 0:17.2 | mobsters, mega resorts, nuclear tests, and reinvention after reinvention. |
| 0:22.9 | But how exactly did a barren stretch of desert in the middle of nowhere become the entertainment |
| 0:27.8 | capital of the world? Learn more about Las Vegas and how it beat the odds on this episode |
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| 1:17.8 | What if your perceptions about the past were wrong? |
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| 1:29.5 | It effectively turned day into night. |
| 1:32.2 | And how it shaped the world now. |
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| 1:45.1 | Long before neon lights, casinos, and Elvis impersonators, the Las Vegas Valley was something |
| 1:51.1 | entirely different. |
| 1:53.2 | During the late Ice Age, the region was a wetland oasis fed by springs and marshes, supporting |
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