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 2022
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1
E1
Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?
Jan 4, 2022 -
2
E2
The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work
Jan 6, 2022 -
3
E3
The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry
Jan 13, 2022 -
4
E4
Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
Jan 20, 2022 -
5
E5
Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes
Jan 22, 2022 -
6
E6
The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast
Jan 31, 2022 -
7
E7
Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City
Feb 2, 2022 -
8
E8
Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color
Feb 9, 2022 -
9
E9
How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years
Feb 11, 2022 -
10
E10
Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square
Feb 16, 2022 -
11
E11
How to Start Your Own Town
Feb 19, 2022 -
12
E12
The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
Feb 28, 2022 -
13
E13
Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously
Mar 2, 2022 -
14
E14
Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight
Mar 4, 2022 -
15
E15
Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
Mar 10, 2022 -
16
E16
Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?
Mar 16, 2022 -
17
E17
Why This Sound is Illegal to Play
Mar 18, 2022 -
18
E18
You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.
Mar 25, 2022 -
19
E19
Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos
Mar 29, 2022 -
20
E20
Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
Mar 31, 2022 -
21
E21
Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
Apr 8, 2022 -
22
E22
The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code
Apr 12, 2022 -
23
E23
Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp
Apr 14, 2022 -
24
E24
How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute
Apr 21, 2022 -
25
E25
The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2
Apr 27, 2022 -
26
E26
Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive
Apr 29, 2022 -
27
E27
⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
May 6, 2022 -
28
E28
How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise
May 10, 2022 -
29
E29
Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination
May 20, 2022 -
30
E30
How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
May 24, 2022 -
31
E31
Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village
May 26, 2022 -
32
E32
Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company
May 31, 2022 -
33
E33
How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret
Jun 2, 2022 -
34
E34
Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona
Jun 7, 2022 -
35
E35
Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012
Jun 9, 2022 -
36
E36
Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore
Jun 16, 2022 -
37
E37
Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph
Jun 21, 2022 -
38
E38
How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote
Jun 28, 2022 -
39
E39
Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline
Jun 30, 2022 -
40
E40
The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)
Jul 5, 2022 -
41
E41
The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying
Jul 8, 2022 -
42
E42
The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money
Jul 14, 2022 -
43
E43
Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland
Jul 19, 2022 -
44
E44
The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries
Jul 22, 2022 -
45
E45
Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s
Aug 1, 2022 -
46
E46
Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands
Aug 4, 2022 -
47
E47
Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year
Aug 9, 2022 -
48
E48
Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona
Aug 12, 2022 -
49
E49
Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year
Aug 16, 2022 -
50
E50
The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating
Aug 22, 2022 -
51
E51
We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year
Aug 25, 2022 -
52
E52
The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other
Aug 31, 2022 -
53
E53
Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border
Sep 6, 2022 -
54
E54
The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
Sep 12, 2022 -
55
E55
How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
Sep 14, 2022 -
56
E56
Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop
Sep 20, 2022 -
57
E57
Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency
Sep 28, 2022 -
58
E58
Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie
Sep 30, 2022 -
59
E59
Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution
Oct 7, 2022 -
60
E60
Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US
Oct 13, 2022 -
61
E61
The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake
Oct 15, 2022 -
62
E62
Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s
Oct 22, 2022 -
63
E63
Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem
Oct 27, 2022 -
64
E64
Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?
Nov 1, 2022 -
65
E65
Why DC's Shaped Like That
Nov 8, 2022 -
66
E66
Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam
Nov 10, 2022 -
67
E67
All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
Nov 15, 2022 -
68
E68
The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die
Nov 18, 2022 -
69
E69
Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
Nov 22, 2022 -
70
E70
The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure
Dec 2, 2022 -
71
E71
Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System
Dec 6, 2022 -
72
E72
Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
Dec 9, 2022 -
73
E73
Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day
Dec 15, 2022 -
74
E74
The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land
Dec 22, 2022 -
75
E75
Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)
Dec 27, 2022 -
76
E76
How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World
Dec 30, 2022