
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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- 1 1. What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws2021-01-05 · 6m
- 2 2. The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison2021-01-07 · 6m
- 3 3. Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England2021-01-15 · 7m
- 4 4. Why There's an American National Park in Canada2021-01-19 · 7m
- 5 5. Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans2021-01-22 · 7m
- 6 6. Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words2021-01-28 · 7m
- 7 7. Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer2021-02-02 · 7m
- 8 8. Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile2021-02-04 · 7m
- 9 9. Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids2021-02-11 · 6m
- 10 10. The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser2021-02-16 · 7m
- 11 11. The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare2021-03-02 · 6m
- 12 12. Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents2021-03-04 · 6m
- 13 13. This is a Video About Bricks2021-03-10 · 13m
- 14 14. The Year Without a Summer Season2021-03-16 · 7m
- 15 15. Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"2021-03-18 · 7m
- 16 16. The US' Butter Size Border2021-03-23 · 7m
- 17 17. Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort2021-03-29 · 6m
- 18 18. The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know2021-03-31 · 7m
- 19 19. How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours2021-04-08 · 7m
- 20 20. Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels2021-04-12 · 7m
- 21 21. How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life2021-04-14 · 7m
- 22 22. Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground2021-04-16 · 7m
- 23 23. How the World's Newest Language Developed2021-04-22 · 7m
- 24 24. What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?2021-04-28 · 6m
- 25 25. How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe2021-04-30 · 7m
- 26 26. Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest2021-05-06 · 6m
- 27 27. How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections2021-05-11 · 6m
- 28 28. Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant2021-05-14 · 6m
- 29 29. Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland2021-05-20 · 6m
- 30 30. How the World's Most Complicated Language Works2021-05-25 · 6m
- 31 31. What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?2021-05-28 · 6m
- 32 32. How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works2021-06-03 · 6m
- 33 33. The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers2021-06-09 · 8m
- 34 34. Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US2021-06-11 · 6m
- 35 35. How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill2021-06-18 · 6m
- 36 36. Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second2021-06-25 · 6m
- 37 37. Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)2021-06-29 · 6m
- 38 38. Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today2021-07-01 · 5m
- 39 39. What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?2021-07-07 · 5m
- 40 40. The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You2021-07-09 · 6m
- 41 41. Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula2021-07-15 · 5m
- 42 42. Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)2021-07-20 · 7m
- 43 43. Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes2021-07-23 · 7m
- 44 44. The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving2021-07-29 · 6m
- 45 45. How to Decode Credit Card Numbers2021-08-03 · 5m
- 46 46. The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code2021-08-06 · 5m
- 47 47. Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases2021-08-12 · 12m
- 48 48. Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week2021-08-20 · 6m
- 49 49. Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off2021-08-27 · 6m
- 50 50. Hooters' Very Real Airline2021-08-30 · 6m
- 51 51. Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope2021-08-31 · 9m
- 52 52. The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)2021-09-07 · 6m
- 53 53. Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed2021-09-10 · 2m
- 54 54. The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan2021-09-14 · 7m
- 55 55. How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret2021-09-20 · 6m
- 56 56. How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret2021-09-24 · 6m
- 57 57. Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City2021-09-28 · 7m
- 58 58. The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally2021-09-30 · 6m
- 59 59. Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England2021-10-07 · 6m
- 60 60. A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy2021-10-13 · 6m
- 61 61. Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,6452021-10-15 · 7m
- 62 62. Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists2021-10-22 · 6m
- 63 63. Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze2021-10-27 · 6m
- 64 64. Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is2021-10-28 · 5m
- 65 65. The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans2021-10-29 · 5m
- 66 66. Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year2021-11-05 · 6m
- 67 67. Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records2021-11-09 · 6m
- 68 68. Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere2021-11-11 · 5m
- 69 69. Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon2021-11-17 · 1m
- 70 70. Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year2021-11-18 · 6m
- 71 71. How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions2021-11-22 · 1m
- 72 72. Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February2021-11-24 · 7m
- 73 73. Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo2021-11-26 · 7m
- 74 74. Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 20272021-12-03 · 7m
- 75 75. How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks2021-12-07 · 6m
- 76 76. Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole2021-12-09 · 6m
- 77 77. Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US2021-12-14 · 1m
- 78 78. Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East2021-12-16 · 6m
- 79 79. Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant2021-12-22 · 6m
- 80 80. The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding2021-12-23 · 6m
- 81 81. Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?2021-12-31 · 7m
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