Half as Interesting

Season 2021

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
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TypeTV Series Returning Series

Cast

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Sam DenbyNarrator

Season 2021 Episodes

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1
What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
2021-01-05
2
The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
2021-01-07
3
Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
2021-01-15
4
Why There's an American National Park in Canada
2021-01-19
5
Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
2021-01-22
6
Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
2021-01-28
7
Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
2021-02-02
8
Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
2021-02-04
9
Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
2021-02-11
10
The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
2021-02-16
11
The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
2021-03-02
12
Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
2021-03-04
13
This is a Video About Bricks
2021-03-10
14
The Year Without a Summer Season
2021-03-16
15
Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
2021-03-18
16
The US' Butter Size Border
2021-03-23
17
Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
2021-03-29
18
The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
2021-03-31
19
How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
2021-04-08
20
Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
2021-04-12
21
How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
2021-04-14
22
Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
2021-04-16
23
How the World's Newest Language Developed
2021-04-22
24
What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
2021-04-28
25
How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
2021-04-30
26
Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
2021-05-06
27
How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
2021-05-11
28
Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
2021-05-14
29
Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
2021-05-20
30
How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
2021-05-25
31
What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
2021-05-28
32
How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
2021-06-03
33
The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
2021-06-09
34
Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
2021-06-11
35
How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
2021-06-18
36
Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
2021-06-25
37
Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
2021-06-29
38
Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
2021-07-01
39
What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
2021-07-07
40
The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
2021-07-09
41
Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
2021-07-15
42
Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
2021-07-20
43
Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
2021-07-23
44
The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
2021-07-29
45
How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
2021-08-03
46
The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
2021-08-06
47
Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
2021-08-12
48
Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
2021-08-20
49
Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
2021-08-27
50
Hooters' Very Real Airline
2021-08-30
51
Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
2021-08-31
52
The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
2021-09-07
53
Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
2021-09-10
54
The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
2021-09-14
55
How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
2021-09-20
56
How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
2021-09-24
57
Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
2021-09-28
58
The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
2021-09-30
59
Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
2021-10-07
60
A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
2021-10-13
61
Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
2021-10-15
62
Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
2021-10-22
63
Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
2021-10-27
64
Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
2021-10-28
65
The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
2021-10-29
66
Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
2021-11-05
67
Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
2021-11-09
68
Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
2021-11-11
69
Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
2021-11-17
70
Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
2021-11-18
71
How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
2021-11-22
72
Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
2021-11-24
73
Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
2021-11-26
74
Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
2021-12-03
75
How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
2021-12-07
76
Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
2021-12-09
77
Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
2021-12-14
78
Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
2021-12-16
79
Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
2021-12-22
80
The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
2021-12-23
81
Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
2021-12-31