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