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