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Half as Interesting - Season 2024

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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.

First Air Date: Jan 01, 1970

Last Air date: Oct 17, 2024

Season: 10 Season

Episode: 485 Episode

Runtime: 5 minutes

IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users

Popularity: 0.1802

Language: English

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Episode South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students The Logistics of White House State Dinners The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot The Logistics of Prescribed Fires Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes? How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up) The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle” The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau