Half as Interesting
Season 2021
202181 episodes
Episode 1
What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
Jan 5, 20216m
Episode 2
The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
Jan 7, 20216m
Episode 3
Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
Jan 15, 20217m
Episode 4
Why There's an American National Park in Canada
Jan 19, 20217m
Episode 5
Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
Jan 22, 20217m
Episode 6
Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
Jan 28, 20217m
Episode 7
Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
Feb 2, 20217m
Episode 8
Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
Feb 4, 20217m
Episode 9
Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
Feb 11, 20216m
Episode 10
The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
Feb 16, 20217m
Episode 11
The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
Mar 2, 20216m
Episode 12
Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
Mar 4, 20216m
Episode 13
This is a Video About Bricks
Mar 10, 202113m
Episode 14
The Year Without a Summer Season
Mar 16, 20217m
Episode 15
Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
Mar 18, 20217m
Episode 16
The US' Butter Size Border
Mar 23, 20217m
Episode 17
Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
Mar 29, 20216m
Episode 18
The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
Mar 31, 20217m
Episode 19
How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
Apr 8, 20217m
Episode 20
Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
Apr 12, 20217m
Episode 21
How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
Apr 14, 20217m
Episode 22
Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
Apr 16, 20217m
Episode 23
How the World's Newest Language Developed
Apr 22, 20217m
Episode 24
What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
Apr 28, 20216m
Episode 25
How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
Apr 30, 20217m
Episode 26
Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
May 6, 20216m
Episode 27
How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
May 11, 20216m
Episode 28
Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
May 14, 20216m
Episode 29
Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
May 20, 20216m
Episode 30
How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
May 25, 20216m
Episode 31
What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
May 28, 20216m
Episode 32
How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
Jun 3, 20216m
Episode 33
The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
Jun 9, 20218m
Episode 34
Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
Jun 11, 20216m
Episode 35
How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
Jun 18, 20216m
Episode 36
Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
Jun 25, 20216m
Episode 37
Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
Jun 29, 20216m
Episode 38
Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
Jul 1, 20215m
Episode 39
What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
Jul 7, 20215m
Episode 40
The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
Jul 9, 20216m
Episode 41
Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
Jul 15, 20215m
Episode 42
Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
Jul 20, 20217m
Episode 43
Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
Jul 23, 20217m
Episode 44
The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
Jul 29, 20216m
Episode 45
How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
Aug 3, 20215m
Episode 46
The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
Aug 6, 20215m
Episode 47
Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
Aug 12, 202112m
Episode 48
Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
Aug 20, 20216m
Episode 49
Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
Aug 27, 20216m
Episode 50
Hooters' Very Real Airline
Aug 30, 20216m
Episode 51
Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
Aug 31, 20219m
Episode 52
The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
Sep 7, 20216m
Episode 53
Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
Sep 10, 20212m
Episode 54
The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
Sep 14, 20217m
Episode 55
How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
Sep 20, 20216m
Episode 56
How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
Sep 24, 20216m
Episode 57
Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
Sep 28, 20217m
Episode 58
The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
Sep 30, 20216m
Episode 59
Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
Oct 7, 20216m
Episode 60
A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
Oct 13, 20216m
Episode 61
Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
Oct 15, 20217m
Episode 62
Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
Oct 22, 20216m
Episode 63
Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
Oct 27, 20216m
Episode 64
Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
Oct 28, 20215m
Episode 65
The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
Oct 29, 20215m
Episode 66
Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
Nov 5, 20216m
Episode 67
Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
Nov 9, 20216m
Episode 68
Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
Nov 11, 20215m
Episode 69
Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
Nov 17, 20211m
Episode 70
Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
Nov 18, 20216m
Episode 71
How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
Nov 22, 20211m
Episode 72
Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
Nov 24, 20217m
Episode 73
Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
Nov 26, 20217m
Episode 74
Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
Dec 3, 20217m
Episode 75
How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
Dec 7, 20216m
Episode 76
Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
Dec 9, 20216m
Episode 77
Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
Dec 14, 20211m
Episode 78
Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
Dec 16, 20216m
Episode 79
Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
Dec 22, 20216m
Episode 80
The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
Dec 23, 20216m
Episode 81
Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
Dec 31, 20217m