Half as Interesting
Season 2022
202276 episodes
Episode 1
Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?
Jan 4, 20226m
Episode 2
The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work
Jan 6, 20226m
Episode 3
The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry
Jan 13, 20225m
Episode 4
Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
Jan 20, 20226m
Episode 5
Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes
Jan 22, 20226m
Episode 6
The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast
Jan 31, 20226m
Episode 7
Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City
Feb 2, 20226m
Episode 8
Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color
Feb 9, 20226m
Episode 9
How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years
Feb 11, 20226m
Episode 10
Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square
Feb 16, 20227m
Episode 11
How to Start Your Own Town
Feb 19, 20226m
Episode 12
The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
Feb 28, 20226m
Episode 13
Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously
Mar 2, 20226m
Episode 14
Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight
Mar 4, 20226m
Episode 15
Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
Mar 10, 20226m
Episode 16
Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?
Mar 16, 20227m
Episode 17
Why This Sound is Illegal to Play
Mar 18, 20227m
Episode 18
You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.
Mar 25, 20226m
Episode 19
Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos
Mar 29, 20226m
Episode 20
Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
Mar 31, 20226m
Episode 21
Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
Apr 8, 20226m
Episode 22
The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code
Apr 12, 20226m
Episode 23
Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp
Apr 14, 20226m
Episode 24
How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute
Apr 21, 20226m
Episode 25
The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2
Apr 27, 20226m
Episode 26
Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive
Apr 29, 20226m
Episode 27
⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
May 6, 20226m
Episode 28
How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise
May 10, 20226m
Episode 29
Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination
May 20, 20226m
Episode 30
How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
May 24, 20226m
Episode 31
Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village
May 26, 20225m
Episode 32
Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company
May 31, 20226m
Episode 33
How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret
Jun 2, 20226m
Episode 34
Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona
Jun 7, 20225m
Episode 35
Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012
Jun 9, 20226m
Episode 36
Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore
Jun 16, 20226m
Episode 37
Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph
Jun 21, 20226m
Episode 38
How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote
Jun 28, 20226m
Episode 39
Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline
Jun 30, 20225m
Episode 40
The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)
Jul 5, 20225m
Episode 41
The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying
Jul 8, 20226m
Episode 42
The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money
Jul 14, 20225m
Episode 43
Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland
Jul 19, 20226m
Episode 44
The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries
Jul 22, 20226m
Episode 45
Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s
Aug 1, 20226m
Episode 46
Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands
Aug 4, 20226m
Episode 47
Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year
Aug 9, 20226m
Episode 48
Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona
Aug 12, 20225m
Episode 49
Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year
Aug 16, 20226m
Episode 50
The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating
Aug 22, 20226m
Episode 51
We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year
Aug 25, 20226m
Episode 52
The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other
Aug 31, 20226m
Episode 53
Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border
Sep 6, 20227m
Episode 54
The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
Sep 12, 20225m
Episode 55
How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
Sep 14, 20226m
Episode 56
Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop
Sep 20, 20226m
Episode 57
Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency
Sep 28, 20226m
Episode 58
Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie
Sep 30, 20227m
Episode 59
Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution
Oct 7, 20227m
Episode 60
Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US
Oct 13, 20226m
Episode 61
The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake
Oct 15, 20226m
Episode 62
Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s
Oct 22, 2022
Episode 63
Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem
Oct 27, 2022
Episode 64
Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?
Nov 1, 2022
Episode 65
Why DC's Shaped Like That
Nov 8, 2022
Episode 66
Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam
Nov 10, 2022
Episode 67
All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
Nov 15, 2022
Episode 68
The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die
Nov 18, 2022
Episode 69
Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
Nov 22, 2022
Episode 70
The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure
Dec 2, 2022
Episode 71
Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System
Dec 6, 20226m
Episode 72
Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
Dec 9, 2022
Episode 73
Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day
Dec 15, 20226m
Episode 74
The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land
Dec 22, 20226m
Episode 75
Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)
Dec 27, 20226m
Episode 76
How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World
Dec 30, 20226m