Half as Interesting
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Overview
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.
Top cast
10 seasons
Season 2017
2017 · 18 episodes
Season 2017
2017 · 18 episodes
- 1 1. What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?
- 2 2. Why You Can Claim Islands for the US if They Have Bird Poop
- 3 3. The 64 Day Longest Flight in History
- 4 4. The $40 Internationally Standard Cup of Tea
- 5 5. What's the Northernmost Town in the world?
- 6 6. The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail
- 7 7. Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal
- 8 8. How Fast Can You Circumnavigate the World on Commercial Flights?
- 9 9. The Not-So-Simple Process of Deciphering Hieroglyphs
- 10 10. How to Read Barcodes
- 11 11. Why the US' Land is Blocky
- 12 12. The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies
- 13 13. The Country with No Territory
- 14 14. The 30 Mile Zone That Explains Why Hollywood Exists
- 15 15. Why the UK Runs Trains to Nowhere
- 16 16. Why Some AM Radio Stations Don't Work at Night
- 17 17. What Your Name Decides About Your Life
- 18 18. The US Government's Secret Airline
Season 2018
2018 · 53 episodes
Season 2018
2018 · 53 episodes
- 1 1. Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence
- 2 2. Why Samoa Skipped December 30, 2011
- 3 3. Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway
- 4 4. The 809 Objects Left on the Moon
- 5 5. Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses
- 6 6. How This Pacific Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance
- 7 7. What’s the Longest Train in the World?
- 8 8. The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country
- 9 9. Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents
- 10 10. Why It's Illegal to be Named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
- 11 11. How 29,000 Lost Rubber Ducks Helped Map the World's Oceans
- 12 12. How Real Mind Control Works
- 13 13. Why These Words are Illegal
- 14 14. How to Make an Emoji
- 15 15. The 3,713 Page Document That Makes or Breaks Economies
- 16 16. Why Diplomats Can't be Arrested
- 17 17. Why There Are Thousands of Giant Arrows Across the US
- 18 18. The $289,500 New York Hot Dog Stand License
- 19 19. Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)
- 20 20. Why 11 Babies Have Been Born in Antarctica
- 21 21. How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret
- 22 22. Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart
- 23 23. That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space
- 24 24. How an Island Lost Its Fortune Making a Terrible Musical
- 25 25. Why the World's Smallest Country Has a Railroad
- 26 26. The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World
- 27 27. The Italian Town That's Not in Italy (or the EU... kind of)
- 28 28. Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia
- 29 29. Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere
- 30 30. The Somewhat Secret Subway System Under the US Capitol
- 31 31. Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba
- 32 32. The Country That Used to Exist Between the US and Canada
- 33 33. The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam
- 34 34. The Secretive Book That Names All the Cheaters in Vegas
- 35 35. The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile
- 36 36. Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made
- 37 37. The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months
- 38 38. The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps
- 39 39. Why Iceland Imports Ice
- 40 40. The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years
- 41 41. Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth
- 42 42. How A Massive Dam in China Slowed the Earth's Rotation
- 43 43. Why It's Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons
- 44 44. How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada
- 45 45. How This Island Near Australia Was Undiscovered
- 46 46. The Man Who Was Stuck in Paris Airport for 18 Years
- 47 47. Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space
- 48 48. Why This Island Might be in Canada or Might be in the US
- 49 49. The Secret Train Station Under New York City
- 50 50. The 32-Hour Longest Commercial Flight in History
- 51 51. What's the Shortest International Border in the World?
- 52 52. Centralia: The Town That's Been on Fire Since 1962
- 53 53. Why It’s (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors
Season 2019
2019 · 58 episodes
Season 2019
2019 · 58 episodes
- 1 1. North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ
- 2 2. Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable
- 3 3. The Completely Real American $100,000 Bill
- 4 4. What's the Furthest You Could Travel Without a Passport?
- 5 5. What Living in the World's Coldest Town is Like
- 6 6. The US' Plan for a Hypothetical War with Britain
- 7 7. The US Government's $350 Million Doomsday Plane
- 8 8. Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany
- 9 9. How a Missing Comma Cost a Company $5 Million
- 10 10. How Kim Jong-un Travels
- 11 11. What Is the Shortest-Lived Country in History?
- 12 12. The 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown
- 13 13. Why Every Map of China is Just Slightly Wrong
- 14 14. The Secret Radio Stations Used to Communicate with Spies
- 15 15. What's the Most Isolated City in the World?
- 16 16. How Ireland Accidentally Legalized Drugs for Two Days
- 17 17. Why Berlin's 15 Year-Old Airport has Never Had a Flight
- 18 18. How an Australian Prime Minister Disappeared Without a Trace
- 19 19. Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists
- 20 20. Why This Capital City Has a Population of Zero
- 21 21. Why South Korea Will be Silent on November, 14, 2019
- 22 22. The Law That Lets You Legally Steal Houses
- 23 23. How a Manhole Cover Became the Fastest Manmade Object Ever
- 24 24. How a Boeing 727 Was Stolen (And Never Found)
- 25 25. The Secret Codes that Printers Put on Every Paper
- 26 26. Why There's Only One American Cruise Ship
- 27 27. How Australia Printed a Typo 46 Million Times
- 28 28. The $14.3 Million World's Most Expensive License Plate
- 29 29. The US Government's Airline for Prisoners
- 30 30. Quarter as Interesting: The Topics That Weren't Good Enough
- 31 31. The Island Invented to Scam a Rich Guy
- 32 32. North Korea's Tiny, Terrible Airline
- 33 33. Why There’s Less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada
- 34 34. The US' Terrible Mistake of Selling $1 Coins for $1
- 35 35. Every Mistake We've Ever Made (2 Fast 2 Spurious)
- 36 36. The Tiny Building Where 285,000 Businesses are Based
- 37 37. The Places Where Sneaking Over the US-Canada Border is Legal
- 38 38. The $250,000 Unlimited Flight Pass: A Terrible Mistake
- 39 39. The Global Restaurant Chain Run by North Korea
- 40 40. The Cruise Ship That People Live On
- 41 41. Why There's a Completely Russian Town in Norway
- 42 42. Why This Parrot is in Witness Protection
- 43 43. How Much is the US President Paid?
- 44 44. How the Queen Travels
- 45 45. The Tree That Owns Itself
- 46 46. The Bit of East Germany That Might Still Exist
- 47 47. Why North Dakota Wasn't Technically a State Until 2012
- 48 48. Why the Dutch King Works as a Pilot for KLM
- 49 49. The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC
- 50 50. The US Government's Trillion Dollar Coin
- 51 51. What's the Longest Possible Commercial Flight?
- 52 52. Who Owns New Islands?
- 53 53. The Time a Senator Spoke for 24-Hours Straight
- 54 54. Why Saudi Arabia Imports Sand
- 55 55. What's the Most Expensive Single Thing?
- 56 56. The Nazi Weather Station in North America
- 57 57. The Only Town in the US With a Population of One
- 58 58. How to Celebrate New Year's Eve Six Times in One Night
Season 2020
2020 · 77 episodes
Season 2020
2020 · 77 episodes
- 1 1. How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
- 2 2. Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
- 3 3. The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
- 4 4. The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
- 5 5. The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
- 6 6. The Highway Where Cars are Banned
- 7 7. How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
- 8 8. The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
- 9 9. How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
- 10 10. Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
- 11 11. How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
- 12 12. Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
- 13 13. Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
- 14 14. Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
- 15 15. The Airport Where Planes go to Die
- 16 16. The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
- 17 17. How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
- 18 18. The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
- 19 19. The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
- 20 20. How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
- 21 21. How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
- 22 22. The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
- 23 23. United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
- 24 24. The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
- 25 25. A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
- 26 26. Who Owns the Rain?
- 27 27. How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
- 28 28. Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
- 29 29. Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
- 30 30. The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
- 31 31. The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
- 32 32. The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
- 33 33. Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
- 34 34. Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
- 35 35. The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
- 36 36. Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
- 37 37. The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
- 38 38. The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
- 39 39. Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
- 40 40. The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
- 41 41. How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
- 42 42. The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
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- 44 44. Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
- 45 45. Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
- 46 46. The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
- 47 47. How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
- 48 48. The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
- 49 49. Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
- 50 50. Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
- 51 51. How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
- 52 52. Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
- 53 53. How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
- 54 54. The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
- 55 55. The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
- 56 56. Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
- 57 57. Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
- 58 58. Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
- 59 59. The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
- 60 60. Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
- 61 61. Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
- 62 62. The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
- 63 63. Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
- 64 64. Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
- 65 65. Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
- 66 66. Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
- 67 67. How Astronauts Vote from Space
- 68 68. Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
- 69 69. How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
- 70 70. Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
- 71 71. How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
- 72 72. Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
- 73 73. We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
- 74 74. What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
- 75 75. Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
- 76 76. How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
- 77 77. Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
Season 2021
2021 · 81 episodes
Season 2021
2021 · 81 episodes
- 1 1. What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
- 2 2. The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
- 3 3. Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
- 4 4. Why There's an American National Park in Canada
- 5 5. Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
- 6 6. Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
- 7 7. Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
- 8 8. Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
- 9 9. Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
- 10 10. The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
- 11 11. The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
- 12 12. Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
- 13 13. This is a Video About Bricks
- 14 14. The Year Without a Summer Season
- 15 15. Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
- 16 16. The US' Butter Size Border
- 17 17. Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
- 18 18. The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know
- 19 19. How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
- 20 20. Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
- 21 21. How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
- 22 22. Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
- 23 23. How the World's Newest Language Developed
- 24 24. What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
- 25 25. How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
- 26 26. Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
- 27 27. How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
- 28 28. Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
- 29 29. Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
- 30 30. How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
- 31 31. What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
- 32 32. How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
- 33 33. The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
- 34 34. Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
- 35 35. How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
- 36 36. Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
- 37 37. Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
- 38 38. Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
- 39 39. What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
- 40 40. The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
- 41 41. Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
- 42 42. Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
- 43 43. Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
- 44 44. The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
- 45 45. How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
- 46 46. The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
- 47 47. Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
- 48 48. Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
- 49 49. Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
- 50 50. Hooters' Very Real Airline
- 51 51. Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
- 52 52. The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
- 53 53. Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
- 54 54. The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
- 55 55. How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
- 56 56. How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
- 57 57. Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
- 58 58. The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
- 59 59. Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
- 60 60. A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
- 61 61. Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
- 62 62. Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
- 63 63. Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
- 64 64. Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
- 65 65. The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
- 66 66. Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
- 67 67. Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
- 68 68. Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
- 69 69. Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
- 70 70. Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
- 71 71. How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
- 72 72. Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
- 73 73. Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
- 74 74. Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
- 75 75. How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
- 76 76. Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
- 77 77. Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US
- 78 78. Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
- 79 79. Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
- 80 80. The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
- 81 81. Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
Season 2022
2022 · 76 episodes
Season 2022
2022 · 76 episodes
- 1 1. Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?
- 2 2. The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn’t Work
- 3 3. The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry
- 4 4. Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
- 5 5. Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes
- 6 6. The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast
- 7 7. Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City
- 8 8. Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color
- 9 9. How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years
- 10 10. Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square
- 11 11. How to Start Your Own Town
- 12 12. The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
- 13 13. Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously
- 14 14. Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight
- 15 15. Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
- 16 16. Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?
- 17 17. Why This Sound is Illegal to Play
- 18 18. You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.
- 19 19. Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos
- 20 20. Why Farmers Can’t Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
- 21 21. Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
- 22 22. The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code
- 23 23. Why You Can’t Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp
- 24 24. How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute
- 25 25. The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2
- 26 26. Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive
- 27 27. ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
- 28 28. How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise
- 29 29. Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination
- 30 30. How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
- 31 31. Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village
- 32 32. Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company
- 33 33. How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret
- 34 34. Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona
- 35 35. Minitel: France’s Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012
- 36 36. Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore
- 37 37. Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph
- 38 38. How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote
- 39 39. Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline
- 40 40. The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)
- 41 41. The CIA’s Manual on How to be Annoying
- 42 42. The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money
- 43 43. Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland
- 44 44. The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries
- 45 45. Russia’s Terrible New Offbrand McDonald’s
- 46 46. Why There’s a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida’s Swamplands
- 47 47. Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year
- 48 48. Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona
- 49 49. Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year
- 50 50. The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating
- 51 51. We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year
- 52 52. The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other
- 53 53. Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border
- 54 54. The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
- 55 55. How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
- 56 56. Why National Parks Can’t Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop
- 57 57. Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency
- 58 58. Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie
- 59 59. Why No One’s Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution
- 60 60. Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US
- 61 61. The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake
- 62 62. Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s
- 63 63. Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem
- 64 64. Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?
- 65 65. Why DC's Shaped Like That
- 66 66. Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam
- 67 67. All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
- 68 68. The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die
- 69 69. Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
- 70 70. The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure
- 71 71. Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System
- 72 72. Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
- 73 73. Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day
- 74 74. The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land
- 75 75. Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They’re Fake)
- 76 76. How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World
Season 2023
2023 · 76 episodes
Season 2023
2023 · 76 episodes
- 1 1. Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
- 2 2. The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
- 3 3. Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
- 4 4. The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
- 5 5. The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
- 6 6. Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
- 7 7. The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
- 8 8. How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
- 9 9. Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
- 10 10. Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
- 11 11. The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
- 12 12. How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
- 13 13. Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
- 14 14. Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
- 15 15. Why American Lawns All Look The Same
- 16 16. The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
- 17 17. North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
- 18 18. How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
- 19 19. How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
- 20 20. The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
- 21 21. How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
- 22 22. The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
- 23 23. The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
- 24 24. This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
- 25 25. Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
- 26 26. The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
- 27 27. How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
- 28 28. How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
- 29 29. The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
- 30 30. Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
- 31 31. Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
- 32 32. The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
- 33 33. Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
- 34 34. How Planes Forecast Turbulence
- 35 35. Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
- 36 36. How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
- 37 37. How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
- 38 38. The Intense Logistics of Truffles
- 39 39. Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
- 40 40. How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
- 41 41. We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
- 42 42. Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
- 43 43. Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
- 44 44. Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
- 45 45. How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
- 46 46. Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
- 47 47. The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
- 48 48. Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
- 49 49. Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
- 50 50. The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
- 51 51. How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
- 52 52. The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
- 53 53. Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
- 54 54. The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
- 55 55. Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
- 56 56. The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
- 57 57. How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
- 58 58. How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
- 59 59. Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
- 60 60. The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
- 61 61. Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
- 62 62. How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
- 63 63. Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
- 64 64. Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
- 65 65. How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
- 66 66. How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
- 67 67. Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
- 68 68. The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
- 69 69. Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
- 70 70. The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
- 71 71. NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
- 72 72. The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
- 73 73. The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
- 74 74. What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
- 75 75. The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
- 76 76. Why China Took the US’ Pandas
Season 2024
2024 · 56 episodes
Season 2024
2024 · 56 episodes
- 1 1. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
- 2 2. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
- 3 3. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
- 4 4. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
- 5 5. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
- 6 6. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
- 7 7. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
- 8 8. The Logistics of White House State Dinners
- 9 9. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
- 10 10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
- 11 11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
- 12 12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
- 13 13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
- 14 14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
- 15 15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
- 16 16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
- 17 17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
- 18 18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
- 19 19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
- 20 20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
- 21 21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
- 22 22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
- 23 23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
- 24 24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
- 25 25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
- 26 26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
- 27 27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
- 28 28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
- 29 29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
- 30 30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
- 31 31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
- 32 32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
- 33 33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
- 34 34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
- 35 35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
- 36 36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
- 37 37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
- 38 38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
- 39 39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
- 40 40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
- 41 41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
- 42 42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
- 43 43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
- 44 44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
- 45 45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
- 46 46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
- 47 47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
- 48 48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
- 49 49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
- 50 50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
- 51 51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
- 52 52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
- 53 53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
- 54 54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
- 55 55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
- 56 56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau
Season 2025
2025 · 52 episodes
Season 2025
2025 · 52 episodes
- 1 1. Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean
- 2 2. How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car
- 3 3. The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain
- 4 4. This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million
- 5 5. The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It
- 6 6. The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets
- 7 7. Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed
- 8 8. The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy
- 9 9. 500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About
- 10 10. The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple
- 11 11. The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices
- 12 12. How to Design the Perfect F1 Track
- 13 13. The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets
- 14 14. How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works
- 15 15. All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia
- 16 16. Why Isn’t There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World?
- 17 17. The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10
- 18 18. Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer
- 19 19. The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada
- 20 20. The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not “Live” in NYC
- 21 21. The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie
- 22 22. The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls
- 23 23. How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?
- 24 24. The CIA’s Secret Star Wars Fan Blog
- 25 25. Why Isn’t There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?
- 26 26. Why the US’ 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed
- 27 27. Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks
- 28 28. The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball
- 29 29. The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC
- 30 30. Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System
- 31 31. The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against
- 32 32. The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island
- 33 33. The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones
- 34 34. The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs
- 35 35. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)
- 36 36. All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway
- 37 37. Why There’s a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert
- 38 38. France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ
- 39 39. Why Does the World’s Biggest Ship Exist?
- 40 40. Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC
- 41 41. The Risky Logistics of Alaska’s Food Supply Chain
- 42 42. How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital
- 43 43. How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain
- 44 44. How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?
- 45 45. The Design of the World’s Most Secure Banknote
- 46 46. The US Military’s Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System
- 47 47. How FEMA’s Doomsday Radio System Works
- 48 48. Why It’s So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are
- 49 49. The US Military’s Fast Food Division
- 50 50. How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People
- 51 51. Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015
- 52 52. The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree
Season 2026
2026 · 22 episodes
Season 2026
2026 · 22 episodes
- 1 1. How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes
- 2 2. This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time
- 3 3. The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette
- 4 4. The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design
- 5 5. The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage
- 6 6. Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky
- 7 7. The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink
- 8 8. The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck
- 9 9. The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America
- 10 10. Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works
- 11 11. The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution
- 12 12. The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey
- 13 13. Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed
- 14 14. The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use
- 15 15. The Logistics of 911
- 16 16. Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
- 17 17. How the Nuclear Football Works
- 18 18. How Forensic Linguistics Works
- 19 19. The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies
- 20 20. Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel
- 21 21. Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet
- 22 22. What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?
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