Half as Interesting - Season 2021

First aired: 1/5/2021 81 episodes
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Episodes

1. What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws

Aired: 1/5/2021

2. The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison

Aired: 1/7/2021

3. Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England

Aired: 1/15/2021

4. Why There's an American National Park in Canada

Aired: 1/19/2021

5. Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans

Aired: 1/22/2021

6. Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words

Aired: 1/28/2021

7. Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer

Aired: 2/2/2021

8. Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile

Aired: 2/4/2021

9. Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids

Aired: 2/11/2021

10. The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser

Aired: 2/16/2021

11. The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare

Aired: 3/2/2021

12. Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents

Aired: 3/4/2021

13. This is a Video About Bricks

Aired: 3/10/2021

14. The Year Without a Summer Season

Aired: 3/16/2021

15. Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"

Aired: 3/18/2021

16. The US' Butter Size Border

Aired: 3/23/2021

17. Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort

Aired: 3/29/2021

18. The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know

Aired: 3/31/2021

19. How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours

Aired: 4/8/2021

20. Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels

Aired: 4/12/2021

21. How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life

Aired: 4/14/2021

22. Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground

Aired: 4/16/2021

23. How the World's Newest Language Developed

Aired: 4/22/2021

24. What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?

Aired: 4/28/2021

25. How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe

Aired: 4/30/2021

26. Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest

Aired: 5/6/2021

27. How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections

Aired: 5/11/2021

28. Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant

Aired: 5/14/2021

29. Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland

Aired: 5/20/2021

30. How the World's Most Complicated Language Works

Aired: 5/25/2021

31. What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?

Aired: 5/28/2021

32. How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works

Aired: 6/3/2021

33. The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers

Aired: 6/9/2021

34. Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US

Aired: 6/11/2021

35. How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill

Aired: 6/18/2021

36. Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second

Aired: 6/25/2021

37. Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)

Aired: 6/29/2021

38. Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today

Aired: 7/1/2021

39. What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?

Aired: 7/7/2021

40. The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You

Aired: 7/9/2021

41. Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula

Aired: 7/15/2021

42. Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)

Aired: 7/20/2021

43. Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes

Aired: 7/23/2021

44. The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving

Aired: 7/29/2021

45. How to Decode Credit Card Numbers

Aired: 8/3/2021

46. The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code

Aired: 8/6/2021

47. Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases

Aired: 8/12/2021

48. Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week

Aired: 8/20/2021

49. Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off

Aired: 8/27/2021

50. Hooters' Very Real Airline

Aired: 8/30/2021

51. Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope

Aired: 8/31/2021

52. The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)

Aired: 9/7/2021

53. Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed

Aired: 9/10/2021

54. The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan

Aired: 9/14/2021

55. How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret

Aired: 9/20/2021

56. How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret

Aired: 9/24/2021

57. Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City

Aired: 9/28/2021

58. The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally

Aired: 9/30/2021

59. Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England

Aired: 10/7/2021

60. A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy

Aired: 10/13/2021

61. Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645

Aired: 10/15/2021

62. Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists

Aired: 10/22/2021

63. Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze

Aired: 10/27/2021

64. Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is

Aired: 10/28/2021

65. The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans

Aired: 10/29/2021

66. Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year

Aired: 11/5/2021

67. Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records

Aired: 11/9/2021

68. Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere

Aired: 11/11/2021

69. Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon

Aired: 11/17/2021

70. Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year

Aired: 11/18/2021

71. How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions

Aired: 11/22/2021

72. Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February

Aired: 11/24/2021

73. Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo

Aired: 11/26/2021

74. Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027

Aired: 12/3/2021

75. How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks

Aired: 12/7/2021

76. Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole

Aired: 12/9/2021

77. Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US

Aired: 12/14/2021

78. Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East

Aired: 12/16/2021

79. Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant

Aired: 12/22/2021

80. The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding

Aired: 12/23/2021

81. Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?

Aired: 12/31/2021