Half as Interesting
Season 2020
202077 episodes
Episode 1
How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
Jan 4, 20205m
Episode 2
Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
Jan 8, 20205m
Episode 3
The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
Jan 10, 20205m
Episode 4
The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
Jan 16, 20207m
Episode 5
The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
Jan 21, 20206m
Episode 6
The Highway Where Cars are Banned
Jan 23, 20206m
Episode 7
How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
Jan 31, 20206m
Episode 8
The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
Feb 4, 20206m
Episode 9
How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
Feb 6, 20206m
Episode 10
Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
Feb 13, 20206m
Episode 11
How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
Feb 18, 20206m
Episode 12
Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
Feb 20, 20206m
Episode 13
Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
Feb 27, 20205m
Episode 14
Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
Mar 3, 20206m
Episode 15
The Airport Where Planes go to Die
Mar 5, 20207m
Episode 16
The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
Mar 13, 20206m
Episode 17
How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
Mar 18, 20206m
Episode 18
The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
Mar 20, 20206m
Episode 19
The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
Mar 26, 20206m
Episode 20
How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
Mar 31, 20206m
Episode 21
How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
Apr 2, 20205m
Episode 22
The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
Apr 9, 20207m
Episode 23
United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
Apr 14, 20205m
Episode 24
The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
Apr 16, 20205m
Episode 25
A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
Apr 23, 20207m
Episode 26
Who Owns the Rain?
Apr 28, 20206m
Episode 27
How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
May 1, 20207m
Episode 28
Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
May 7, 20205m
Episode 29
Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
May 12, 20206m
Episode 30
The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
May 15, 20206m
Episode 31
The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
May 21, 20206m
Episode 32
The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
May 26, 20205m
Episode 33
Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
May 28, 20206m
Episode 34
Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
Jun 4, 20206m
Episode 35
The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
Jun 9, 20206m
Episode 36
Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
Jun 11, 20206m
Episode 37
The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
Jun 18, 20206m
Episode 38
The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
Jun 23, 20206m
Episode 39
Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
Jun 25, 20205m
Episode 40
The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
Jul 2, 20206m
Episode 41
How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
Jul 7, 20206m
Episode 42
The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
Jul 10, 20207m
Episode 43
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Jul 16, 20206m
Episode 44
Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
Jul 21, 20206m
Episode 45
Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
Jul 23, 20206m
Episode 46
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
Jul 30, 20206m
Episode 47
How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
Aug 4, 20206m
Episode 48
The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
Aug 6, 20206m
Episode 49
Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
Aug 13, 20206m
Episode 50
Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
Aug 18, 20206m
Episode 51
How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
Aug 20, 20206m
Episode 52
Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
Aug 28, 20208m
Episode 53
How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
Sep 1, 20207m
Episode 54
The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
Sep 3, 20207m
Episode 55
The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
Sep 10, 20206m
Episode 56
Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
Sep 15, 20206m
Episode 57
Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
Sep 17, 20205m
Episode 58
Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
Sep 25, 20206m
Episode 59
The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
Sep 29, 20206m
Episode 60
Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
Oct 2, 20206m
Episode 61
Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
Oct 13, 20206m
Episode 62
The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
Oct 15, 20206m
Episode 63
Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
Oct 20, 20205m
Episode 64
Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
Oct 22, 20205m
Episode 65
Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
Oct 27, 20206m
Episode 66
Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
Oct 29, 20207m
Episode 67
How Astronauts Vote from Space
Nov 3, 20206m
Episode 68
Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
Nov 10, 20206m
Episode 69
How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
Nov 13, 20206m
Episode 70
Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
Nov 20, 20205m
Episode 71
How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
Nov 25, 20206m
Episode 72
Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
Dec 5, 20206m
Episode 73
We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
Dec 9, 20208m
Episode 74
What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
Dec 13, 20207m
Episode 75
Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
Dec 17, 20207m
Episode 76
How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
Dec 22, 20207m
Episode 77
Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
Dec 26, 20207m