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