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