Half as Interesting

Season 2023

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 2023 Episodes

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1
Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
2023-01-04
2
The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
2023-01-11
3
Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
2023-01-18
4
The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
2023-01-20
5
The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
2023-01-21
6
Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
2023-01-30
7
The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
2023-02-02
8
How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
2023-02-05
9
Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
2023-02-13
10
Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
2023-02-16
11
The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
2023-02-22
12
How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
2023-02-24
13
Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
2023-03-01
14
Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
2023-03-06
15
Why American Lawns All Look The Same
2023-03-09
16
The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
2023-03-16
17
North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
2023-03-18
18
How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
2023-03-23
19
How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
2023-03-28
20
The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
2023-03-31
21
How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
2023-04-07
22
The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
2023-04-12
23
The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
2023-04-15
24
This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
2023-04-24
25
Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
2023-04-28
26
The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
2023-05-01
27
How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
2023-05-07
28
How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
2023-05-09
29
The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
2023-05-12
30
Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
2023-05-20
31
Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
2023-05-23
32
The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
2023-05-26
33
Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
2023-06-05
34
How Planes Forecast Turbulence
2023-06-08
35
Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
2023-06-12
36
How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
2023-06-16
37
How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
2023-06-22
38
The Intense Logistics of Truffles
2023-06-26
39
Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
2023-06-30
40
How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
2023-07-04
41
We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
2023-07-12
42
Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
2023-07-15
43
Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
2023-07-18
44
Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
2023-07-21
45
How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
2023-07-31
46
Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
2023-08-04
47
The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
2023-08-08
48
Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
2023-08-10
49
Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
2023-08-16
50
The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
2023-08-22
51
How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
2023-08-29
52
The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
2023-08-30
53
Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
2023-08-31
54
The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
2023-09-12
55
Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
2023-09-19
56
The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
2023-09-21
57
How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
2023-09-28
58
How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
2023-09-29
59
Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
2023-09-30
60
The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
2023-10-06
61
Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
2023-10-12
62
How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
2023-10-20
63
Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
2023-10-25
64
Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
2023-10-26
65
How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
2023-10-28
66
How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
2023-11-06
67
Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
2023-11-15
68
The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
2023-11-17
69
Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
2023-11-21
70
The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
2023-11-27
71
NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
2023-11-30
72
The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
2023-12-07
73
The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
2023-12-12
74
What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
2023-12-19
75
The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
2023-12-26
76
Why China Took the US’ Pandas
2023-12-28