Half as Interesting
Half as Interesting is an entertaining, fact-based, educational series covering diverse topics of general interest presented in a somewhat humorous, quirky style. Topics range from curious to weird and are rarely important to know unless you're looking for some lunch room or coffee break conversation starters.
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Season 2021
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E1
What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
Jan 5, 2021 -
2
E2
The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
Jan 7, 2021 -
3
E3
Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
Jan 15, 2021 -
4
E4
Why There's an American National Park in Canada
Jan 19, 2021 -
5
E5
Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
Jan 22, 2021 -
6
E6
Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
Jan 28, 2021 -
7
E7
Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
Feb 2, 2021 -
8
E8
Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
Feb 4, 2021 -
9
E9
Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
Feb 11, 2021 -
10
E10
The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
Feb 16, 2021 -
11
E11
The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
Mar 2, 2021 -
12
E12
Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
Mar 4, 2021 -
13
E13
This is a Video About Bricks
Mar 10, 2021 -
14
E14
The Year Without a Summer Season
Mar 16, 2021 -
15
E15
Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
Mar 18, 2021 -
16
E16
The US' Butter Size Border
Mar 23, 2021 -
17
E17
Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
Mar 29, 2021 -
18
E18
The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
Mar 31, 2021 -
19
E19
How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
Apr 8, 2021 -
20
E20
Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
Apr 12, 2021 -
21
E21
How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
Apr 14, 2021 -
22
E22
Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
Apr 16, 2021 -
23
E23
How the World's Newest Language Developed
Apr 22, 2021 -
24
E24
What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
Apr 28, 2021 -
25
E25
How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
Apr 30, 2021 -
26
E26
Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
May 6, 2021 -
27
E27
How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
May 11, 2021 -
28
E28
Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
May 14, 2021 -
29
E29
Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
May 20, 2021 -
30
E30
How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
May 25, 2021 -
31
E31
What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
May 28, 2021 -
32
E32
How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
Jun 3, 2021 -
33
E33
The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
Jun 9, 2021 -
34
E34
Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
Jun 11, 2021 -
35
E35
How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
Jun 18, 2021 -
36
E36
Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
Jun 25, 2021 -
37
E37
Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
Jun 29, 2021 -
38
E38
Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
Jul 1, 2021 -
39
E39
What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
Jul 7, 2021 -
40
E40
The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
Jul 9, 2021 -
41
E41
Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
Jul 15, 2021 -
42
E42
Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
Jul 20, 2021 -
43
E43
Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
Jul 23, 2021 -
44
E44
The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
Jul 29, 2021 -
45
E45
How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
Aug 3, 2021 -
46
E46
The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
Aug 6, 2021 -
47
E47
Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
Aug 12, 2021 -
48
E48
Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
Aug 20, 2021 -
49
E49
Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
Aug 27, 2021 -
50
E50
Hooters' Very Real Airline
Aug 30, 2021 -
51
E51
Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
Aug 31, 2021 -
52
E52
The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
Sep 7, 2021 -
53
E53
Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
Sep 10, 2021 -
54
E54
The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
Sep 14, 2021 -
55
E55
How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
Sep 20, 2021 -
56
E56
How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
Sep 24, 2021 -
57
E57
Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
Sep 28, 2021 -
58
E58
The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
Sep 30, 2021 -
59
E59
Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
Oct 7, 2021 -
60
E60
A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
Oct 13, 2021 -
61
E61
Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
Oct 15, 2021 -
62
E62
Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
Oct 22, 2021 -
63
E63
Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
Oct 27, 2021 -
64
E64
Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
Oct 28, 2021 -
65
E65
The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
Oct 29, 2021 -
66
E66
Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
Nov 5, 2021 -
67
E67
Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
Nov 9, 2021 -
68
E68
Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
Nov 11, 2021 -
69
E69
Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
Nov 17, 2021 -
70
E70
Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
Nov 18, 2021 -
71
E71
How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
Nov 22, 2021 -
72
E72
Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
Nov 24, 2021 -
73
E73
Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
Nov 26, 2021 -
74
E74
Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
Dec 3, 2021 -
75
E75
How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
Dec 7, 2021 -
76
E76
Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
Dec 9, 2021 -
77
E77
Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
Dec 14, 2021 -
78
E78
Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
Dec 16, 2021 -
79
E79
Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
Dec 22, 2021 -
80
E80
The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
Dec 23, 2021 -
81
E81
Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
Dec 31, 2021