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.
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- Play How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
- Play Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
- Play The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
- Play The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
- Play The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
- Play The Highway Where Cars are Banned
- Play How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
- Play The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
- Play How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
- Play Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
- Play How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
- Play Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
- Play Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
- Play Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
- Play The Airport Where Planes go to Die
- Play The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
- Play How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
- Play The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
- Play The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
- Play How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
- Play How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
- Play The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
- Play United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
- Play The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
- Play A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
- Play Who Owns the Rain?
- Play How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
- Play Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
- Play Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
- Play The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
- Play The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
- Play The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
- Play Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
- Play Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
- Play The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
- Play Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
- Play The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
- Play The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
- Play Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
- Play The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
- Play How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
- Play The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
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- Play Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
- Play Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
- Play The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
- Play How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
- Play The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
- Play Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
- Play Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
- Play How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
- Play Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
- Play How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
- Play The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
- Play The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
- Play Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
- Play Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
- Play Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
- Play The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
- Play Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
- Play Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
- Play The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
- Play Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
- Play Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
- Play Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
- Play Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
- Play How Astronauts Vote from Space
- Play Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
- Play How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
- Play Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
- Play How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
- Play Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
- Play We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
- Play What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
- Play Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
- Play How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
- Play Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
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