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Half as Interesting — Season 2024

202456 episodes

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 (56)

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1. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere

Aired 4 January 2024 • 6 min

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2. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert

Aired 11 January 2024 • 6 min

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3. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

Aired 16 January 2024 • 7 min

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4. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

Aired 19 January 2024 • 7 min

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5. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

Aired 25 January 2024 • 7 min

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6. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

Aired 26 January 2024 • 7 min

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7. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

Aired 31 January 2024 • 7 min

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8. The Logistics of White House State Dinners

Aired 31 January 2024 • 7 min

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9. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

Aired 5 February 2024 • 7 min

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10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

Aired 19 February 2024 • 7 min

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11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

Aired 25 February 2024 • 6 min

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12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

Aired 28 February 2024 • 7 min

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13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana

Aired 29 February 2024 • 6 min

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14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

Aired 19 March 2024 • 8 min

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15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

Aired 22 March 2024 • 9 min

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16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

Aired 27 March 2024 • 9 min

Video written by Ben Doyle

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17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

Aired 31 March 2024 • 8 min

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18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

Aired 6 April 2024 • 8 min

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19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

Aired 16 April 2024 • 8 min

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20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

Aired 23 April 2024 • 8 min

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21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

Aired 1 May 2024 • 9 min

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22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

Aired 9 May 2024 • 9 min

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23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

Aired 14 May 2024 • 10 min

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24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

Aired 17 May 2024 • 8 min

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25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

Aired 24 May 2024 • 9 min

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26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

Aired 3 June 2024 • 9 min

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27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

Aired 6 June 2024 • 8 min

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28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

Aired 13 June 2024 • 9 min

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29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

Aired 25 June 2024 • 8 min

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30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System

Aired 1 July 2024 • 8 min

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31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

Aired 8 July 2024 • 9 min

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32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

Aired 15 July 2024 • 9 min

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33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

Aired 19 July 2024 • 9 min

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34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

Aired 30 July 2024 • 8 min

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35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

Aired 1 August 2024 • 8 min

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36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

Aired 9 August 2024 • 9 min

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37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

Aired 20 August 2024 • 8 min

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38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

Aired 26 August 2024 • 8 min

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39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

Aired 3 September 2024 • 8 min

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40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

Aired 7 September 2024 • 9 min

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41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.

Aired 18 September 2024 • 8 min

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42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans

Aired 26 September 2024 • 7 min

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43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

Aired 30 September 2024 • 8 min

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44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water

Aired 10 October 2024 • 9 min

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45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

Aired 17 October 2024 • 8 min

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46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

Aired 25 October 2024 • 9 min

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47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

Aired 30 October 2024 • 9 min

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48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

Aired 31 October 2024 • 9 min

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49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever

Aired 12 November 2024 • 9 min

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50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

Aired 19 November 2024 • 9 min

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51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes

Aired 26 November 2024 • 8 min

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52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

Aired 30 November 2024 • 8 min

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53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

Aired 12 December 2024 • 9 min

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54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days

Aired 17 December 2024 • 9 min

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55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole

Aired 24 December 2024 • 7 min

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56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau

Aired 26 December 2024 • 8 min

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