Half as Interesting

Season 2020

Half as Interesting

Subtitles for: Half as Interesting

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.

GenreDocumentary
Duration5 min/ep
CountryUS
LanguageEN
IMDbtt14361280 β†—
TypeTV Series Returning Series

Cast

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Sam DenbyNarrator

Season 2020 Episodes

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1
How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
2020-01-04
2
Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
2020-01-08
3
The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
2020-01-10
4
The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
2020-01-16
5
The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
2020-01-21
6
The Highway Where Cars are Banned
2020-01-23
7
How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
2020-01-31
8
The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
2020-02-04
9
How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
2020-02-06
10
Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
2020-02-13
11
How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
2020-02-18
12
Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
2020-02-20
13
Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
2020-02-27
14
Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
2020-03-03
15
The Airport Where Planes go to Die
2020-03-05
16
The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
2020-03-13
17
How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
2020-03-18
18
The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
2020-03-20
19
The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
2020-03-26
20
How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
2020-03-31
21
How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
2020-04-02
22
The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
2020-04-09
23
United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
2020-04-14
24
The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
2020-04-16
25
A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
2020-04-23
26
Who Owns the Rain?
2020-04-28
27
How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
2020-05-01
28
Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
2020-05-07
29
Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
2020-05-12
30
The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
2020-05-15
31
The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
2020-05-21
32
The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
2020-05-26
33
Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
2020-05-28
34
Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
2020-06-04
35
The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
2020-06-09
36
Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
2020-06-11
37
The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
2020-06-18
38
The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
2020-06-23
39
Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
2020-06-25
40
The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
2020-07-02
41
How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
2020-07-07
42
The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
2020-07-10
43
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2020-07-16
44
Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
2020-07-21
45
Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
2020-07-23
46
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
2020-07-30
47
How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
2020-08-04
48
The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
2020-08-06
49
Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
2020-08-13
50
Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
2020-08-18
51
How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
2020-08-20
52
Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
2020-08-28
53
How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
2020-09-01
54
The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
2020-09-03
55
The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London Β£12,598,845
2020-09-10
56
Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
2020-09-15
57
Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
2020-09-17
58
Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
2020-09-25
59
The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
2020-09-29
60
Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
2020-10-02
61
Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
2020-10-13
62
The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
2020-10-15
63
Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
2020-10-20
64
Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
2020-10-22
65
Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
2020-10-27
66
Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
2020-10-29
67
How Astronauts Vote from Space
2020-11-03
68
Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
2020-11-10
69
How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
2020-11-13
70
Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
2020-11-20
71
How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
2020-11-25
72
Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
2020-12-05
73
We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
2020-12-09
74
What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
2020-12-13
75
Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
2020-12-17
76
How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
2020-12-22
77
Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
2020-12-26