Half as Interesting - Season 2022

First aired: 1/4/2022 76 episodes
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Episodes

1. Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

Aired: 1/4/2022

2. The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work

Aired: 1/6/2022

3. The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry

Aired: 1/13/2022

4. Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years

Aired: 1/20/2022

5. Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes

Aired: 1/22/2022

6. The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast

Aired: 1/31/2022

7. Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City

Aired: 2/2/2022

8. Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

Aired: 2/9/2022

9. How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years

Aired: 2/11/2022

10. Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square

Aired: 2/16/2022

11. How to Start Your Own Town

Aired: 2/19/2022

12. The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm

Aired: 2/28/2022

13. Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously

Aired: 3/2/2022

14. Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight

Aired: 3/4/2022

15. Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever

Aired: 3/10/2022

16. Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?

Aired: 3/16/2022

17. Why This Sound is Illegal to Play

Aired: 3/18/2022

18. You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.

Aired: 3/25/2022

19. Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos

Aired: 3/29/2022

20. Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

Aired: 3/31/2022

21. Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

Aired: 4/8/2022

22. The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code

Aired: 4/12/2022

23. Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp

Aired: 4/14/2022

24. How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute

Aired: 4/21/2022

25. The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2

Aired: 4/27/2022

26. Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive

Aired: 4/29/2022

27. ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means

Aired: 5/6/2022

28. How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise

Aired: 5/10/2022

29. Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination

Aired: 5/20/2022

30. How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From

Aired: 5/24/2022

31. Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village

Aired: 5/26/2022

32. Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company

Aired: 5/31/2022

33. How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret

Aired: 6/2/2022

34. Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona

Aired: 6/7/2022

35. Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012

Aired: 6/9/2022

36. Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore

Aired: 6/16/2022

37. Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph

Aired: 6/21/2022

38. How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote

Aired: 6/28/2022

39. Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline

Aired: 6/30/2022

40. The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)

Aired: 7/5/2022

41. The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying

Aired: 7/8/2022

42. The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

Aired: 7/14/2022

43. Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

Aired: 7/19/2022

44. The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

Aired: 7/22/2022

45. Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s

Aired: 8/1/2022

46. Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands

Aired: 8/4/2022

47. Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year

Aired: 8/9/2022

48. Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona

Aired: 8/12/2022

49. Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year

Aired: 8/16/2022

50. The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating

Aired: 8/22/2022

51. We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year

Aired: 8/25/2022

52. The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other

Aired: 8/31/2022

53. Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border

Aired: 9/6/2022

54. The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year

Aired: 9/12/2022

55. How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System

Aired: 9/14/2022

56. Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop

Aired: 9/20/2022

57. Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency

Aired: 9/28/2022

58. Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie

Aired: 9/30/2022

59. Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution

Aired: 10/7/2022

60. Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US

Aired: 10/13/2022

61. The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake

Aired: 10/15/2022

62. Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s

Aired: 10/22/2022

63. Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem

Aired: 10/27/2022

64. Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?

Aired: 11/1/2022

65. Why DC's Shaped Like That

Aired: 11/8/2022

66. Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam

Aired: 11/10/2022

67. All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

Aired: 11/15/2022

68. The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die

Aired: 11/18/2022

69. Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US

Aired: 11/22/2022

70. The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure

Aired: 12/2/2022

71. Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System

Aired: 12/6/2022

72. Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

Aired: 12/9/2022

73. Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day

Aired: 12/15/2022

74. The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land

Aired: 12/22/2022

75. Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)

Aired: 12/27/2022

76. How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World

Aired: 12/30/2022