Half as Interesting
Season 2020
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.
| Genre | Documentary |
| Duration | 5 min/ep |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| IMDb | tt14361280 β |
| Type | TV Series Returning Series |
Season 2020 Episodes
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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