Half as Interesting – Season 2020
2020
77 Episodes
Episodes
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S2020E01
How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
04 Jan 20205m
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S2020E02
Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
08 Jan 20205m
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S2020E03
The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
10 Jan 20205m
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S2020E04
The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
16 Jan 20207m
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S2020E05
The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
21 Jan 20206m
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S2020E06
The Highway Where Cars are Banned
23 Jan 20206m
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S2020E07
How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
31 Jan 20206m
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S2020E08
The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
04 Feb 20206m
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S2020E09
How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
06 Feb 20206m
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S2020E10
Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
13 Feb 20206m
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S2020E11
How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
18 Feb 20206m
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S2020E12
Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
20 Feb 20206m
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S2020E13
Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
27 Feb 20205m
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S2020E14
Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
03 Mar 20206m
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S2020E15
The Airport Where Planes go to Die
05 Mar 20207m
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S2020E16
The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
13 Mar 20206m
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S2020E17
How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
18 Mar 20206m
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S2020E18
The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
20 Mar 20206m
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S2020E19
The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
26 Mar 20206m
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S2020E20
How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
31 Mar 20206m
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S2020E21
How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
02 Apr 20205m
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S2020E22
The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
09 Apr 20207m
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S2020E23
United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
14 Apr 20205m
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S2020E24
The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
16 Apr 20205m
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S2020E25
A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
23 Apr 20207m
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S2020E26
Who Owns the Rain?
28 Apr 20206m
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S2020E27
How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
01 May 20207m
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S2020E28
Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
07 May 20205m
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S2020E29
Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
12 May 20206m
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S2020E30
The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
15 May 20206m
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S2020E31
The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
21 May 20206m
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S2020E32
The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
26 May 20205m
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S2020E33
Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
28 May 20206m
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S2020E34
Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
04 Jun 20206m
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S2020E35
The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
09 Jun 20206m
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S2020E36
Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
11 Jun 20206m
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S2020E37
The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
18 Jun 20206m
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S2020E38
The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
23 Jun 20206m
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S2020E39
Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
25 Jun 20205m
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S2020E40
The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
02 Jul 20206m
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S2020E41
How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
07 Jul 20206m
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S2020E42
The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
10 Jul 20207m
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S2020E43
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16 Jul 20206m
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S2020E44
Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
21 Jul 20206m
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S2020E45
Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
23 Jul 20206m
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S2020E46
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
30 Jul 20206m
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S2020E47
How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
04 Aug 20206m
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S2020E48
The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
06 Aug 20206m
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S2020E49
Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
13 Aug 20206m
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S2020E50
Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
18 Aug 20206m
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S2020E51
How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
20 Aug 20206m
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S2020E52
Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
28 Aug 20208m
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S2020E53
How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
01 Sept 20207m
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S2020E54
The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
03 Sept 20207m
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S2020E55
The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
10 Sept 20206m
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S2020E56
Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
15 Sept 20206m
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S2020E57
Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
17 Sept 20205m
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S2020E58
Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
25 Sept 20206m
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S2020E59
The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
29 Sept 20206m
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S2020E60
Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
02 Oct 20206m
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S2020E61
Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
13 Oct 20206m
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S2020E62
The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
15 Oct 20206m
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S2020E63
Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
20 Oct 20205m
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S2020E64
Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
22 Oct 20205m
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S2020E65
Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
27 Oct 20206m
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S2020E66
Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
29 Oct 20207m
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S2020E67
How Astronauts Vote from Space
03 Nov 20206m
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S2020E68
Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
10 Nov 20206m
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S2020E69
How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
13 Nov 20206m
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S2020E70
Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
20 Nov 20205m
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S2020E71
How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
25 Nov 20206m
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S2020E72
Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
05 Dec 20206m
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S2020E73
We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
09 Dec 20208m
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S2020E74
What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
13 Dec 20207m
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S2020E75
Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
17 Dec 20207m
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S2020E76
How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
22 Dec 20207m
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S2020E77
Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
26 Dec 20207m