Half as Interesting
Season 2021
2021 · 81 episodes
1. What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
2021-01-05 · 6m
2. The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
2021-01-07 · 6m
3. Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
2021-01-15 · 7m
4. Why There's an American National Park in Canada
2021-01-19 · 7m
5. Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
2021-01-22 · 7m
6. Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
2021-01-28 · 7m
7. Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
2021-02-02 · 7m
8. Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
2021-02-04 · 7m
9. Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
2021-02-11 · 6m
10. The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
2021-02-16 · 7m
11. The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
2021-03-02 · 6m
12. Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
2021-03-04 · 6m
13. This is a Video About Bricks
2021-03-10 · 13m
14. The Year Without a Summer Season
2021-03-16 · 7m
15. Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
2021-03-18 · 7m
16. The US' Butter Size Border
2021-03-23 · 7m
17. Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
2021-03-29 · 6m
18. The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
2021-03-31 · 7m
19. How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
2021-04-08 · 7m
20. Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
2021-04-12 · 7m
21. How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
2021-04-14 · 7m
22. Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
2021-04-16 · 7m
23. How the World's Newest Language Developed
2021-04-22 · 7m
24. What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
2021-04-28 · 6m
25. How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
2021-04-30 · 7m
26. Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
2021-05-06 · 6m
27. How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
2021-05-11 · 6m
28. Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
2021-05-14 · 6m
29. Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
2021-05-20 · 6m
30. How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
2021-05-25 · 6m
31. What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
2021-05-28 · 6m
32. How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
2021-06-03 · 6m
33. The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
2021-06-09 · 8m
34. Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
2021-06-11 · 6m
35. How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
2021-06-18 · 6m
36. Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
2021-06-25 · 6m
37. Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
2021-06-29 · 6m
38. Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
2021-07-01 · 5m
39. What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
2021-07-07 · 5m
40. The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
2021-07-09 · 6m
41. Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
2021-07-15 · 5m
42. Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
2021-07-20 · 7m
43. Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
2021-07-23 · 7m
44. The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
2021-07-29 · 6m
45. How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
2021-08-03 · 5m
46. The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
2021-08-06 · 5m
47. Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
2021-08-12 · 12m
48. Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
2021-08-20 · 6m
49. Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
2021-08-27 · 6m
50. Hooters' Very Real Airline
2021-08-30 · 6m
51. Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
2021-08-31 · 9m
52. The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
2021-09-07 · 6m
53. Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
2021-09-10 · 2m
54. The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
2021-09-14 · 7m
55. How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
2021-09-20 · 6m
56. How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
2021-09-24 · 6m
57. Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
2021-09-28 · 7m
58. The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
2021-09-30 · 6m
59. Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
2021-10-07 · 6m
60. A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
2021-10-13 · 6m
61. Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
2021-10-15 · 7m
62. Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
2021-10-22 · 6m
63. Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
2021-10-27 · 6m
64. Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
2021-10-28 · 5m
65. The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
2021-10-29 · 5m
66. Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
2021-11-05 · 6m
67. Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
2021-11-09 · 6m
68. Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
2021-11-11 · 5m
69. Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
2021-11-17 · 1m
70. Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
2021-11-18 · 6m
71. How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
2021-11-22 · 1m
72. Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
2021-11-24 · 7m
73. Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
2021-11-26 · 7m
74. Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
2021-12-03 · 7m
75. How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
2021-12-07 · 6m
76. Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
2021-12-09 · 6m
77. Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
2021-12-14 · 1m
78. Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
2021-12-16 · 6m
79. Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
2021-12-22 · 6m
80. The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
2021-12-23 · 6m
81. Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
2021-12-31 · 7m
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