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Half as Interesting

★ 8.0 29 votes 2017–present 1 season · 76 episodes Returning Series Nebula
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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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Season 1
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EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?—
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▶2Why You Can Claim Islands for the US if They Have Bird Poop—
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▶3The 64 Day Longest Flight in History—
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▶4The $40 Internationally Standard Cup of Tea—
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▶5What's the Northernmost Town in the world?—
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▶6The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail—
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▶7Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal—
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▶8How Fast Can You Circumnavigate the World on Commercial Flights?—
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▶9The Not-So-Simple Process of Deciphering Hieroglyphs—
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▶10How to Read Barcodes—
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▶11Why the US' Land is Blocky—
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▶12The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies—
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▶13The Country with No Territory—
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▶14The 30 Mile Zone That Explains Why Hollywood Exists—
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▶15Why the UK Runs Trains to Nowhere—
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▶16Why Some AM Radio Stations Don't Work at Night—
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▶17What Your Name Decides About Your Life—
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▶18The US Government's Secret Airline—
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▶455How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)—
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▶457The Obscure System That Syncs All the World's Clocks—
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▶462Why There's a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho—
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▶463Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps—
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▶464Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms on Panama Every Week—
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▶465Why Nobody Knows What JIS X 0208 Means—
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▶466The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea—
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▶468How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time—
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▶469How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable—
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▶470How America's Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works—
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▶471How the US Gov's Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses—
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▶472The One Long Wire Ruining America's Most Important Train—
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▶474The Logistics of Mount Everest's Base Camp—
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▶477The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a "Miracle"—
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▶480How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer—
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▶481Why Only One US City Doesn't Add Fluoride to Its Water—
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▶482How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth—
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▶483How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market—
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▶484How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency—
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▶485How the USA's Only Car-Free Village Works—
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▶488How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes—
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▶489How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours—
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▶492How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole—
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▶493The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau—
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▶500Brooklyn's Only Interstate is Doomed—
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▶504The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices—
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▶509Why Isn't There Public Transit from the Airport to Disney World?—
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▶510The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper that Sold for $10—
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▶512The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada—
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▶513The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not "Live" in NYC—
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▶514The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie—
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▶515The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls—
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▶516How Much of the Moon is on Earth?—
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▶517The CIA's Secret Star Wars Fan Blog—
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▶518Why Isn't There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?—
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▶519Why the US' 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway is Doomed—
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▶520Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks—
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▶522The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC—
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▶523Detroit's Tiny, Terrible Metro System—
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▶524The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against—
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▶525The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island—
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▶527The Decades-Long Fight Over the Font on Highway Signs—
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▶528The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)—
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▶529All the Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway—
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▶531France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ—
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▶533Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC—
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▶537How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?—
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▶538The Design of the World's Most Secure Banknote—
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▶539The US Military's Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System—
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▶540How FEMA's Doomsday Radio System Works—
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▶541Why It's So Hard to Know Where the Utility Pipes Are—
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▶542The US Military's Fast Food Division—
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▶544Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015—
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▶545The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree—
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▶547This Is the Worst Cell Phone of All Time—
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▶549The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design—
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▶550The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camoflauge—
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▶557The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey—
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Cast

Sam Denby Self - Narrator, Self
Amy Muller Self
Ben Doyle Self

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