Half as Interesting
Season 2023
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 ↗ |
| Type | TV Series Returning Series |
Season 2023 Episodes
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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