Half as Interesting

Season 2022

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 ↗
TypeTV Series Returning Series

Cast

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Sam DenbyNarrator

Season 2022 Episodes

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1
Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?
2022-01-04
2
The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work
2022-01-06
3
The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry
2022-01-13
4
Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
2022-01-20
5
Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes
2022-01-22
6
The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast
2022-01-31
7
Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City
2022-02-02
8
Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color
2022-02-09
9
How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years
2022-02-11
10
Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square
2022-02-16
11
How to Start Your Own Town
2022-02-19
12
The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
2022-02-28
13
Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously
2022-03-02
14
Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight
2022-03-04
15
Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
2022-03-10
16
Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?
2022-03-16
17
Why This Sound is Illegal to Play
2022-03-18
18
You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.
2022-03-25
19
Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos
2022-03-29
20
Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
2022-03-31
21
Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
2022-04-08
22
The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code
2022-04-12
23
Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp
2022-04-14
24
How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute
2022-04-21
25
The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2
2022-04-27
26
Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive
2022-04-29
27
ā¼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
2022-05-06
28
How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise
2022-05-10
29
Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination
2022-05-20
30
How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
2022-05-24
31
Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village
2022-05-26
32
Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company
2022-05-31
33
How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret
2022-06-02
34
Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona
2022-06-07
35
Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012
2022-06-09
36
Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore
2022-06-16
37
Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph
2022-06-21
38
How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote
2022-06-28
39
Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline
2022-06-30
40
The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)
2022-07-05
41
The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying
2022-07-08
42
The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money
2022-07-14
43
Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland
2022-07-19
44
The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries
2022-07-22
45
Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s
2022-08-01
46
Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands
2022-08-04
47
Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year
2022-08-09
48
Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona
2022-08-12
49
Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year
2022-08-16
50
The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating
2022-08-22
51
We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year
2022-08-25
52
The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other
2022-08-31
53
Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border
2022-09-06
54
The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
2022-09-12
55
How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
2022-09-14
56
Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop
2022-09-20
57
Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency
2022-09-28
58
Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie
2022-09-30
59
Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution
2022-10-07
60
Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US
2022-10-13
61
The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake
2022-10-15
62
Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s
2022-10-22
63
Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem
2022-10-27
64
Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?
2022-11-01
65
Why DC's Shaped Like That
2022-11-08
66
Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam
2022-11-10
67
All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
2022-11-15
68
The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die
2022-11-18
69
Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
2022-11-22
70
The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure
2022-12-02
71
Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System
2022-12-06
72
Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
2022-12-09
73
Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day
2022-12-15
74
The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land
2022-12-22
75
Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)
2022-12-27
76
How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World
2022-12-30