Half as Interesting

Season 2024

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 2024 Episodes

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1
South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
2024-01-04
2
Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
2024-01-11
3
The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
2024-01-16
4
How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
2024-01-19
5
How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
2024-01-25
6
Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
2024-01-26
7
The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
2024-01-31
8
The Logistics of White House State Dinners
2024-01-31
9
The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
2024-02-05
10
How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
2024-02-19
11
Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
2024-02-25
12
Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
2024-02-28
13
Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
2024-02-29
14
Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
2024-03-19
15
Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
2024-03-22
16
The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
2024-03-27
17
Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
2024-03-31
18
How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
2024-04-06
19
The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
2024-04-16
20
The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
2024-04-23
21
How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
2024-05-01
22
Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
2024-05-09
23
The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
2024-05-14
24
The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
2024-05-17
25
Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
2024-05-24
26
Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
2024-06-03
27
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
2024-06-06
28
Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
2024-06-13
29
The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
2024-06-25
30
Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
2024-07-01
31
How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
2024-07-08
32
How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
2024-07-15
33
How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
2024-07-19
34
How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
2024-07-30
35
The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
2024-08-01
36
The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
2024-08-09
37
The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
2024-08-20
38
The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
2024-08-26
39
The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
2024-09-03
40
The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
2024-09-07
41
The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
2024-09-18
42
Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
2024-09-26
43
How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
2024-09-30
44
Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
2024-10-10
45
How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
2024-10-17
46
How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
2024-10-25
47
How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
2024-10-30
48
How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
2024-10-31
49
Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
2024-11-12
50
The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
2024-11-19
51
How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
2024-11-26
52
How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
2024-11-30
53
The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
2024-12-12
54
How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
2024-12-17
55
How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
2024-12-24
56
The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau
2024-12-26