Half as Interesting - Season 2020

First aired: 1/4/2020 77 episodes
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Episodes

1. How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide

Aired: 1/4/2020

2. Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened

Aired: 1/8/2020

3. The Secret Tunnel Under the White House

Aired: 1/10/2020

4. The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day

Aired: 1/16/2020

5. The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists

Aired: 1/21/2020

6. The Highway Where Cars are Banned

Aired: 1/23/2020

7. How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law

Aired: 1/31/2020

8. The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro

Aired: 2/4/2020

9. How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet

Aired: 2/6/2020

10. Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies

Aired: 2/13/2020

11. How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money

Aired: 2/18/2020

12. Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent

Aired: 2/20/2020

13. Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair

Aired: 2/27/2020

14. Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time

Aired: 3/3/2020

15. The Airport Where Planes go to Die

Aired: 3/5/2020

16. The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night

Aired: 3/13/2020

17. How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics

Aired: 3/18/2020

18. The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970

Aired: 3/20/2020

19. The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft

Aired: 3/26/2020

20. How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government

Aired: 3/31/2020

21. How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases

Aired: 4/2/2020

22. The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened

Aired: 4/9/2020

23. United Airlines' Men-Only Flights

Aired: 4/14/2020

24. The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France

Aired: 4/16/2020

25. A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight

Aired: 4/23/2020

26. Who Owns the Rain?

Aired: 4/28/2020

27. How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader

Aired: 5/1/2020

28. Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan

Aired: 5/7/2020

29. Why This Coin is Illegal to Own

Aired: 5/12/2020

30. The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire

Aired: 5/15/2020

31. The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever

Aired: 5/21/2020

32. The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing

Aired: 5/26/2020

33. Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question

Aired: 5/28/2020

34. Texas' Embassy in Washington DC

Aired: 6/4/2020

35. The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate

Aired: 6/9/2020

36. Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks

Aired: 6/11/2020

37. The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired

Aired: 6/18/2020

38. The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago

Aired: 6/23/2020

39. Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation

Aired: 6/25/2020

40. The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds

Aired: 7/2/2020

41. How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic

Aired: 7/7/2020

42. The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery

Aired: 7/10/2020

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Aired: 7/16/2020

44. Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland

Aired: 7/21/2020

45. Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City

Aired: 7/23/2020

46. The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet

Aired: 7/30/2020

47. How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy

Aired: 8/4/2020

48. The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing

Aired: 8/6/2020

49. Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII

Aired: 8/13/2020

50. Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left

Aired: 8/18/2020

51. How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines

Aired: 8/20/2020

52. Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift

Aired: 8/28/2020

53. How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government

Aired: 9/1/2020

54. The 639 Year Longest Song Ever

Aired: 9/3/2020

55. The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845

Aired: 9/10/2020

56. Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight

Aired: 9/15/2020

57. Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins

Aired: 9/17/2020

58. Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe

Aired: 9/25/2020

59. The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport

Aired: 9/29/2020

60. Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68

Aired: 10/2/2020

61. Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better

Aired: 10/13/2020

62. The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday

Aired: 10/15/2020

63. Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists

Aired: 10/20/2020

64. Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa

Aired: 10/22/2020

65. Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal

Aired: 10/27/2020

66. Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads

Aired: 10/29/2020

67. How Astronauts Vote from Space

Aired: 11/3/2020

68. Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea

Aired: 11/10/2020

69. How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network

Aired: 11/13/2020

70. Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland

Aired: 11/20/2020

71. How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter

Aired: 11/25/2020

72. Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous

Aired: 12/5/2020

73. We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)

Aired: 12/9/2020

74. What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?

Aired: 12/13/2020

75. Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist

Aired: 12/17/2020

76. How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language

Aired: 12/22/2020

77. Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years

Aired: 12/26/2020