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Half as Interesting

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.

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Season 1 · 0 episodes
    Season 2017 · 18 episodes
    1. S2017 E01 · What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?
    2. S2017 E02 · Why You Can Claim Islands for the US if They Have Bird Poop
    3. S2017 E03 · The 64 Day Longest Flight in History
    4. S2017 E04 · The $40 Internationally Standard Cup of Tea
    5. S2017 E05 · What's the Northernmost Town in the world?
    6. S2017 E06 · The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail
    7. S2017 E07 · Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal
    8. S2017 E08 · How Fast Can You Circumnavigate the World on Commercial Flights?
    9. S2017 E09 · The Not-So-Simple Process of Deciphering Hieroglyphs
    10. S2017 E10 · How to Read Barcodes
    11. S2017 E11 · Why the US' Land is Blocky
    12. S2017 E12 · The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies
    13. S2017 E13 · The Country with No Territory
    14. S2017 E14 · The 30 Mile Zone That Explains Why Hollywood Exists
    15. S2017 E15 · Why the UK Runs Trains to Nowhere
    16. S2017 E16 · Why Some AM Radio Stations Don't Work at Night
    17. S2017 E17 · What Your Name Decides About Your Life
    18. S2017 E18 · The US Government's Secret Airline
    Season 2018 · 53 episodes
    1. S2018 E01 · Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence
    2. S2018 E02 · Why Samoa Skipped December 30, 2011
    3. S2018 E03 · Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway
    4. S2018 E04 · The 809 Objects Left on the Moon
    5. S2018 E05 · Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses
    6. S2018 E06 · How This Pacific Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance
    7. S2018 E07 · What's the Longest Train in the World?
    8. S2018 E08 · The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country
    9. S2018 E09 · Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents
    10. S2018 E10 · Why It's Illegal to be Named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
    11. S2018 E11 · How 29,000 Lost Rubber Ducks Helped Map the World's Oceans
    12. S2018 E12 · How Real Mind Control Works
    13. S2018 E13 · Why These Words are Illegal
    14. S2018 E14 · How to Make an Emoji
    15. S2018 E15 · The 3,713 Page Document That Makes or Breaks Economies
    16. S2018 E16 · Why Diplomats Can't be Arrested
    17. S2018 E17 · Why There Are Thousands of Giant Arrows Across the US
    18. S2018 E18 · The $289,500 New York Hot Dog Stand License
    19. S2018 E19 · Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)
    20. S2018 E20 · Why 11 Babies Have Been Born in Antarctica
    21. S2018 E21 · How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret
    22. S2018 E22 · Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart
    23. S2018 E23 · That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space
    24. S2018 E24 · How an Island Lost Its Fortune Making a Terrible Musical
    25. S2018 E25 · Why the World's Smallest Country Has a Railroad
    26. S2018 E26 · The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World
    27. S2018 E27 · The Italian Town That's Not in Italy (or the EU... kind of)
    28. S2018 E28 · Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia
    29. S2018 E29 · Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere
    30. S2018 E30 · The Somewhat Secret Subway System Under the US Capitol
    31. S2018 E31 · Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba
    32. S2018 E32 · The Country That Used to Exist Between the US and Canada
    33. S2018 E33 · The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam
    34. S2018 E34 · The Secretive Book That Names All the Cheaters in Vegas
    35. S2018 E35 · The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile
    36. S2018 E36 · Every Mistake We've Ever Made
    37. S2018 E37 · The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months
    38. S2018 E38 · The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps
    39. S2018 E39 · Why Iceland Imports Ice
    40. S2018 E40 · The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years
    41. S2018 E41 · Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth
    42. S2018 E42 · How A Massive Dam in China Slowed the Earth's Rotation
    43. S2018 E43 · Why It's Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons
    44. S2018 E44 · How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada
    45. S2018 E45 · How This Island Near Australia Was Undiscovered
    46. S2018 E46 · The Man Who Was Stuck in Paris Airport for 18 Years
    47. S2018 E47 · Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space
    48. S2018 E48 · Why This Island Might be in Canada or Might be in the US
    49. S2018 E49 · The Secret Train Station Under New York City
    50. S2018 E50 · The 32-Hour Longest Commercial Flight in History
    51. S2018 E51 · What's the Shortest International Border in the World?
    52. S2018 E52 · Centralia: The Town That's Been on Fire Since 1962
    53. S2018 E53 · Why It's (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors
    Season 2019 · 58 episodes
    1. S2019 E01 · North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ
    2. S2019 E02 · Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable
    3. S2019 E03 · The Completely Real American $100,000 Bill
    4. S2019 E04 · What's the Furthest You Could Travel Without a Passport?
    5. S2019 E05 · What Living in the World's Coldest Town is Like
    6. S2019 E06 · The US' Plan for a Hypothetical War with Britain
    7. S2019 E07 · The US Government's $350 Million Doomsday Plane
    8. S2019 E08 · Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany
    9. S2019 E09 · How a Missing Comma Cost a Company $5 Million
    10. S2019 E10 · How Kim Jong-un Travels
    11. S2019 E11 · What Is the Shortest-Lived Country in History?
    12. S2019 E12 · The 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown
    13. S2019 E13 · Why Every Map of China is Just Slightly Wrong
    14. S2019 E14 · The Secret Radio Stations Used to Communicate with Spies
    15. S2019 E15 · What's the Most Isolated City in the World?
    16. S2019 E16 · How Ireland Accidentally Legalized Drugs for Two Days
    17. S2019 E17 · Why Berlin's 15 Year-Old Airport has Never Had a Flight
    18. S2019 E18 · How an Australian Prime Minister Disappeared Without a Trace
    19. S2019 E19 · Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists
    20. S2019 E20 · Why This Capital City Has a Population of Zero
    21. S2019 E21 · Why South Korea Will be Silent on November, 14, 2019
    22. S2019 E22 · The Law That Lets You Legally Steal Houses
    23. S2019 E23 · How a Manhole Cover Became the Fastest Manmade Object Ever
    24. S2019 E24 · How a Boeing 727 Was Stolen (And Never Found)
    25. S2019 E25 · The Secret Codes that Printers Put on Every Paper
    26. S2019 E26 · Why There's Only One American Cruise Ship
    27. S2019 E27 · How Australia Printed a Typo 46 Million Times
    28. S2019 E28 · The $14.3 Million World's Most Expensive License Plate
    29. S2019 E29 · The US Government's Airline for Prisoners
    30. S2019 E30 · Quarter as Interesting: The Topics That Weren't Good Enough
    31. S2019 E31 · The Island Invented to Scam a Rich Guy
    32. S2019 E32 · North Korea's Tiny, Terrible Airline
    33. S2019 E33 · Why There's Less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada
    34. S2019 E34 · The US' Terrible Mistake of Selling $1 Coins for $1
    35. S2019 E35 · Every Mistake We've Ever Made (2 Fast 2 Spurious)
    36. S2019 E36 · The Tiny Building Where 285,000 Businesses are Based
    37. S2019 E37 · The Places Where Sneaking Over the US-Canada Border is Legal
    38. S2019 E38 · The $250,000 Unlimited Flight Pass: A Terrible Mistake
    39. S2019 E39 · The Global Restaurant Chain Run by North Korea
    40. S2019 E40 · The Cruise Ship That People Live On
    41. S2019 E41 · Why There's a Completely Russian Town in Norway
    42. S2019 E42 · Why This Parrot is in Witness Protection
    43. S2019 E43 · How Much is the US President Paid?
    44. S2019 E44 · How the Queen Travels
    45. S2019 E45 · The Tree That Owns Itself
    46. S2019 E46 · The Bit of East Germany That Might Still Exist
    47. S2019 E47 · Why North Dakota Wasn't Technically a State Until 2012
    48. S2019 E48 · Why the Dutch King Works as a Pilot for KLM
    49. S2019 E49 · The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC
    50. S2019 E50 · The US Government's Trillion Dollar Coin
    51. S2019 E51 · What's the Longest Possible Commercial Flight?
    52. S2019 E52 · Who Owns New Islands?
    53. S2019 E53 · The Time a Senator Spoke for 24-Hours Straight
    54. S2019 E54 · Why Saudi Arabia Imports Sand
    55. S2019 E55 · What's the Most Expensive Single Thing?
    56. S2019 E56 · The Nazi Weather Station in North America
    57. S2019 E57 · The Only Town in the US With a Population of One
    58. S2019 E58 · How to Celebrate New Year's Eve Six Times in One Night
    Season 2020 · 77 episodes
    1. S2020 E01 · How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
    2. S2020 E02 · Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
    3. S2020 E03 · The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
    4. S2020 E04 · The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
    5. S2020 E05 · The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
    6. S2020 E06 · The Highway Where Cars are Banned
    7. S2020 E07 · How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
    8. S2020 E08 · The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
    9. S2020 E09 · How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
    10. S2020 E10 · Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
    11. S2020 E11 · How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
    12. S2020 E12 · Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
    13. S2020 E13 · Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
    14. S2020 E14 · Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
    15. S2020 E15 · The Airport Where Planes go to Die
    16. S2020 E16 · The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
    17. S2020 E17 · How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
    18. S2020 E18 · The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
    19. S2020 E19 · The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
    20. S2020 E20 · How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
    21. S2020 E21 · How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
    22. S2020 E22 · The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
    23. S2020 E23 · United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
    24. S2020 E24 · The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
    25. S2020 E25 · A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
    26. S2020 E26 · Who Owns the Rain?
    27. S2020 E27 · How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
    28. S2020 E28 · Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
    29. S2020 E29 · Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
    30. S2020 E30 · The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
    31. S2020 E31 · The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
    32. S2020 E32 · The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
    33. S2020 E33 · Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
    34. S2020 E34 · Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
    35. S2020 E35 · The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
    36. S2020 E36 · Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
    37. S2020 E37 · The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
    38. S2020 E38 · The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
    39. S2020 E39 · Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
    40. S2020 E40 · The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
    41. S2020 E41 · How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
    42. S2020 E42 · The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
    43. S2020 E43 · Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
    44. S2020 E44 · Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
    45. S2020 E45 · Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
    46. S2020 E46 · The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
    47. S2020 E47 · How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
    48. S2020 E48 · The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
    49. S2020 E49 · Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
    50. S2020 E50 · Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
    51. S2020 E51 · How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
    52. S2020 E52 · Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
    53. S2020 E53 · How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
    54. S2020 E54 · The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
    55. S2020 E55 · The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
    56. S2020 E56 · Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
    57. S2020 E57 · Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
    58. S2020 E58 · Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
    59. S2020 E59 · The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
    60. S2020 E60 · Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
    61. S2020 E61 · Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
    62. S2020 E62 · The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
    63. S2020 E63 · Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
    64. S2020 E64 · Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
    65. S2020 E65 · Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
    66. S2020 E66 · Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
    67. S2020 E67 · How Astronauts Vote from Space
    68. S2020 E68 · Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
    69. S2020 E69 · How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
    70. S2020 E70 · Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
    71. S2020 E71 · How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
    72. S2020 E72 · Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
    73. S2020 E73 · We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
    74. S2020 E74 · What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
    75. S2020 E75 · Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
    76. S2020 E76 · How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
    77. S2020 E77 · Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
    Season 2021 · 81 episodes
    1. S2021 E01 · What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
    2. S2021 E02 · The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
    3. S2021 E03 · Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
    4. S2021 E04 · Why There's an American National Park in Canada
    5. S2021 E05 · Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
    6. S2021 E06 · Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
    7. S2021 E07 · Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
    8. S2021 E08 · Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile
    9. S2021 E09 · Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids
    10. S2021 E10 · The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
    11. S2021 E11 · The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare
    12. S2021 E12 · Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents
    13. S2021 E13 · This is a Video About Bricks
    14. S2021 E14 · The Year Without a Summer Season
    15. S2021 E15 · Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"
    16. S2021 E16 · The US' Butter Size Border
    17. S2021 E17 · Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort
    18. S2021 E18 · The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don't Know They Know
    19. S2021 E19 · How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours
    20. S2021 E20 · Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels
    21. S2021 E21 · How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life
    22. S2021 E22 · Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground
    23. S2021 E23 · How the World's Newest Language Developed
    24. S2021 E24 · What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
    25. S2021 E25 · How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe
    26. S2021 E26 · Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest
    27. S2021 E27 · How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
    28. S2021 E28 · Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant
    29. S2021 E29 · Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland
    30. S2021 E30 · How the World's Most Complicated Language Works
    31. S2021 E31 · What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?
    32. S2021 E32 · How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works
    33. S2021 E33 · The CIA's Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers
    34. S2021 E34 · Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US
    35. S2021 E35 · How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill
    36. S2021 E36 · Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second
    37. S2021 E37 · Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)
    38. S2021 E38 · Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today
    39. S2021 E39 · What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?
    40. S2021 E40 · The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You
    41. S2021 E41 · Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula
    42. S2021 E42 · Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)
    43. S2021 E43 · Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes
    44. S2021 E44 · The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving
    45. S2021 E45 · How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
    46. S2021 E46 · The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code
    47. S2021 E47 · Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
    48. S2021 E48 · Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
    49. S2021 E49 · Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off
    50. S2021 E50 · Hooters' Very Real Airline
    51. S2021 E51 · Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope
    52. S2021 E52 · The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)
    53. S2021 E53 · Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
    54. S2021 E54 · The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan
    55. S2021 E55 · How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret
    56. S2021 E56 · How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret
    57. S2021 E57 · Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City
    58. S2021 E58 · The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally
    59. S2021 E59 · Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England
    60. S2021 E60 · A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy
    61. S2021 E61 · Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645
    62. S2021 E62 · Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists
    63. S2021 E63 · Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze
    64. S2021 E64 · Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is
    65. S2021 E65 · The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans
    66. S2021 E66 · Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year
    67. S2021 E67 · Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
    68. S2021 E68 · Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
    69. S2021 E69 · Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon
    70. S2021 E70 · Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
    71. S2021 E71 · How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions
    72. S2021 E72 · Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February
    73. S2021 E73 · Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
    74. S2021 E74 · Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027
    75. S2021 E75 · How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks
    76. S2021 E76 · Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole
    77. S2021 E77 · Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn't Exist in the US
    78. S2021 E78 · Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
    79. S2021 E79 · Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant
    80. S2021 E80 · The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
    81. S2021 E81 · Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?
    Season 2022 · 76 episodes
    1. S2022 E01 · Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?
    2. S2022 E02 · The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn't Work
    3. S2022 E03 · The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry
    4. S2022 E04 · Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
    5. S2022 E05 · Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes
    6. S2022 E06 · The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast
    7. S2022 E07 · Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City
    8. S2022 E08 · Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color
    9. S2022 E09 · How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years
    10. S2022 E10 · Why There's An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square
    11. S2022 E11 · How to Start Your Own Town
    12. S2022 E12 · The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm
    13. S2022 E13 · Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously
    14. S2022 E14 · Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight
    15. S2022 E15 · Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
    16. S2022 E16 · Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?
    17. S2022 E17 · Why This Sound is Illegal to Play
    18. S2022 E18 · You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.
    19. S2022 E19 · Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos
    20. S2022 E20 · Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
    21. S2022 E21 · Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
    22. S2022 E22 · The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code
    23. S2022 E23 · Why You Can't Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp
    24. S2022 E24 · How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute
    25. S2022 E25 · The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2
    26. S2022 E26 · Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive
    27. S2022 E27 · ⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means
    28. S2022 E28 · How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise
    29. S2022 E29 · Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination
    30. S2022 E30 · How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
    31. S2022 E31 · Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village
    32. S2022 E32 · Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company
    33. S2022 E33 · How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret
    34. S2022 E34 · Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona
    35. S2022 E35 · Minitel: France's Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012
    36. S2022 E36 · Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore
    37. S2022 E37 · Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph
    38. S2022 E38 · How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote
    39. S2022 E39 · Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline
    40. S2022 E40 · The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)
    41. S2022 E41 · The CIA's Manual on How to be Annoying
    42. S2022 E42 · The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money
    43. S2022 E43 · Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland
    44. S2022 E44 · The Single Australian Farm That's Bigger Than 49 Countries
    45. S2022 E45 · Russia's Terrible New Offbrand McDonald's
    46. S2022 E46 · Why There's a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida's Swamplands
    47. S2022 E47 · Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year
    48. S2022 E48 · Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona
    49. S2022 E49 · Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year
    50. S2022 E50 · The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating
    51. S2022 E51 · We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year
    52. S2022 E52 · The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other
    53. S2022 E53 · Why You Don't Want To Live On the US-Canada Border
    54. S2022 E54 · The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year
    55. S2022 E55 · How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
    56. S2022 E56 · Why National Parks Can't Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop
    57. S2022 E57 · Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency
    58. S2022 E58 · Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie
    59. S2022 E59 · Why No One's Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution
    60. S2022 E60 · Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US
    61. S2022 E61 · The US Army's Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake
    62. S2022 E62 · Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World's
    63. S2022 E63 · Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem
    64. S2022 E64 · Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?
    65. S2022 E65 · Why DC's Shaped Like That
    66. S2022 E66 · Why This is The World's Most Dangerous Dam
    67. S2022 E67 · All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries
    68. S2022 E68 · The NFL's Secret Plan For If All The Players Die
    69. S2022 E69 · Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
    70. S2022 E70 · The McDonald's McPizza: A Huge Failure
    71. S2022 E71 · Roosevelt Island's Pneumatic Trash System
    72. S2022 E72 · Spotify's Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
    73. S2022 E73 · Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day
    74. S2022 E74 · The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land
    75. S2022 E75 · Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They're Fake)
    76. S2022 E76 · How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World
    Season 2023 · 76 episodes
    1. S2023 E01 · Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
    2. S2023 E02 · The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
    3. S2023 E03 · Why Canada's Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
    4. S2023 E04 · The Navy's Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
    5. S2023 E05 · The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
    6. S2023 E06 · Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
    7. S2023 E07 · The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California's Smallest Town
    8. S2023 E08 · How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
    9. S2023 E09 · Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
    10. S2023 E10 · Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
    11. S2023 E11 · The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
    12. S2023 E12 · How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
    13. S2023 E13 · Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
    14. S2023 E14 · Why It's Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
    15. S2023 E15 · Why American Lawns All Look The Same
    16. S2023 E16 · The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
    17. S2023 E17 · North Korea's Bizarre New Propaganda Program
    18. S2023 E18 · How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
    19. S2023 E19 · How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
    20. S2023 E20 · The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That's Coming for Florida
    21. S2023 E21 · How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
    22. S2023 E22 · The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
    23. S2023 E23 · The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
    24. S2023 E24 · This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
    25. S2023 E25 · Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
    26. S2023 E26 · The Giant Propaganda Show That's In Almost Every City
    27. S2023 E27 · How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
    28. S2023 E28 · How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
    29. S2023 E29 · The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
    30. S2023 E30 · Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
    31. S2023 E31 · Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
    32. S2023 E32 · The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
    33. S2023 E33 · Dyson's Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
    34. S2023 E34 · How Planes Forecast Turbulence
    35. S2023 E35 · Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
    36. S2023 E36 · How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin' Dots
    37. S2023 E37 · How the World's 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
    38. S2023 E38 · The Intense Logistics of Truffles
    39. S2023 E39 · Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
    40. S2023 E40 · How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
    41. S2023 E41 · We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
    42. S2023 E42 · Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
    43. S2023 E43 · Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
    44. S2023 E44 · Trains' Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
    45. S2023 E45 · How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
    46. S2023 E46 · Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
    47. S2023 E47 · The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
    48. S2023 E48 · Chicago's $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
    49. S2023 E49 · Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
    50. S2023 E50 · The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
    51. S2023 E51 · How The Pentagon Became The World's Most Secure Building
    52. S2023 E52 · The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
    53. S2023 E53 · Every Mistake We've Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
    54. S2023 E54 · The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
    55. S2023 E55 · Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
    56. S2023 E56 · The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
    57. S2023 E57 · How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
    58. S2023 E58 · How The President's Official Vacation Home Works
    59. S2023 E59 · Why Venice's New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
    60. S2023 E60 · The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
    61. S2023 E61 · Australia's Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
    62. S2023 E62 · How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
    63. S2023 E63 · Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
    64. S2023 E64 · Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
    65. S2023 E65 · How 70% of Britain's Cash Went Missing
    66. S2023 E66 · How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
    67. S2023 E67 · Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
    68. S2023 E68 · The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They're Banned in the EU
    69. S2023 E69 · Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
    70. S2023 E70 · The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
    71. S2023 E71 · NASA's Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
    72. S2023 E72 · The Vault That Holds 5% of the World's Gold
    73. S2023 E73 · The Controversial Machine That's Ruining Bowling
    74. S2023 E74 · What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
    75. S2023 E75 · The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
    76. S2023 E76 · Why China Took the US' Pandas
    Season 2024 · 56 episodes
    1. S2024 E01 · South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
    2. S2024 E02 · Why There's a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
    3. S2024 E03 · The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
    4. S2024 E04 · How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
    5. S2024 E05 · How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
    6. S2024 E06 · Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
    7. S2024 E07 · The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
    8. S2024 E08 · The Logistics of White House State Dinners
    9. S2024 E09 · The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US' Highest Taxicab Density
    10. S2024 E10 · How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
    11. S2024 E11 · Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
    12. S2024 E12 · Why It's So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
    13. S2024 E13 · Why We're Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
    14. S2024 E14 · Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
    15. S2024 E15 · Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
    16. S2024 E16 · The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
    17. S2024 E17 · Why Don't Planes Carry Parachutes?
    18. S2024 E18 · How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
    19. S2024 E19 · The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
    20. S2024 E20 · The Obscure System That Syncs All The World's Clocks
    21. S2024 E21 · How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
    22. S2024 E22 · Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
    23. S2024 E23 · The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
    24. S2024 E24 · The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
    25. S2024 E25 · Why There's a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
    26. S2024 E26 · Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
    27. S2024 E27 · Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
    28. S2024 E28 · Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
    29. S2024 E29 · The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
    30. S2024 E30 · Mumbai's Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
    31. S2024 E31 · How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
    32. S2024 E32 · How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
    33. S2024 E33 · How America's Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
    34. S2024 E34 · How the US Gov's Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
    35. S2024 E35 · The One Long Wire Ruining America's Most Important Train
    36. S2024 E36 · The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
    37. S2024 E37 · The Logistics of Mount Everest's Base Camp
    38. S2024 E38 · The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
    39. S2024 E39 · The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
    40. S2024 E40 · The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a "Miracle"
    41. S2024 E41 · The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
    42. S2024 E42 · Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
    43. S2024 E43 · How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
    44. S2024 E44 · Why Only One US City Doesn't Add Fluoride to Its Water
    45. S2024 E45 · How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
    46. S2024 E46 · How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
    47. S2024 E47 · How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
    48. S2024 E48 · How The USA's Only Car-Free Village Works
    49. S2024 E49 · Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
    50. S2024 E50 · The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
    51. S2024 E51 · How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
    52. S2024 E52 · How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
    53. S2024 E53 · The US' Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
    54. S2024 E54 · How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
    55. S2024 E55 · How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
    56. S2024 E56 · The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau
    Season 2025 · 52 episodes
    1. S2025 E01 · Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean
    2. S2025 E02 · How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car
    3. S2025 E03 · The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain
    4. S2025 E04 · This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million
    5. S2025 E05 · The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It
    6. S2025 E06 · The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets
    7. S2025 E07 · Brooklyn's Only Interstate Is Doomed
    8. S2025 E08 · The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil's Economy
    9. S2025 E09 · 500 Terrible Topics We Didn't Make Videos About
    10. S2025 E10 · The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple
    11. S2025 E11 · The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices
    12. S2025 E12 · How to Design the Perfect F1 Track
    13. S2025 E13 · The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets
    14. S2025 E14 · How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works
    15. S2025 E15 · All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia
    16. S2025 E16 · Why Isn't There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World?
    17. S2025 E17 · The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $10
    18. S2025 E18 · Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer
    19. S2025 E19 · The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada
    20. S2025 E20 · The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not "Live" in NYC
    21. S2025 E21 · The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie
    22. S2025 E22 · The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls
    23. S2025 E23 · How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?
    24. S2025 E24 · The CIA's Secret Star Wars Fan Blog
    25. S2025 E25 · Why Isn't There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?
    26. S2025 E26 · Why the US' 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed
    27. S2025 E27 · Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks
    28. S2025 E28 · The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball
    29. S2025 E29 · The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC
    30. S2025 E30 · Detroit's Tiny, Terrible Metro System
    31. S2025 E31 · The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against
    32. S2025 E32 · The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island
    33. S2025 E33 · The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones
    34. S2025 E34 · The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs
    35. S2025 E35 · The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)
    36. S2025 E36 · All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway
    37. S2025 E37 · Why There's a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert
    38. S2025 E38 · France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ
    39. S2025 E39 · Why Does the World's Biggest Ship Exist?
    40. S2025 E40 · Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC
    41. S2025 E41 · The Risky Logistics of Alaska's Food Supply Chain
    42. S2025 E42 · How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital
    43. S2025 E43 · How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain
    44. S2025 E44 · How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?
    45. S2025 E45 · The Design of the World's Most Secure Banknote
    46. S2025 E46 · The US Military's Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System
    47. S2025 E47 · How FEMA's Doomsday Radio System Works
    48. S2025 E48 · Why It's So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are
    49. S2025 E49 · The US Military's Fast Food Division
    50. S2025 E50 · How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People
    51. S2025 E51 · Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015
    52. S2025 E52 · The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree
    Season 2026 · 34 episodes
    1. S2026 E01 · How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes
    2. S2026 E02 · This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time
    3. S2026 E03 · The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette
    4. S2026 E04 · The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design
    5. S2026 E05 · The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage
    6. S2026 E06 · Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky
    7. S2026 E07 · The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink
    8. S2026 E08 · The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck
    9. S2026 E09 · The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America
    10. S2026 E10 · Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works
    11. S2026 E11 · The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution
    12. S2026 E12 · The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey
    13. S2026 E13 · Why Amtrak's Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed
    14. S2026 E14 · The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use
    15. S2026 E15 · The Logistics of 911
    16. S2026 E16 · Why This River Doesn't Reach the Ocean
    17. S2026 E17 · How the Nuclear Football Works
    18. S2026 E18 · How Forensic Linguistics Works
    19. S2026 E19 · The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies
    20. S2026 E20 · Why They Built The World's Longest Rail Tunnel
    21. S2026 E21 · Russia's Weird, Bad Alternative Internet
    22. S2026 E22 · What's The World's Longest Domestic Flight?
    23. S2026 E23 · New Jersey's Big Fight with FIFA
    24. S2026 E24 · Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018
    25. S2026 E25 · Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful
    26. S2026 E26 · The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person
    27. S2026 E27 · How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer Space
    28. S2026 E28 · The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be Real
    29. S2026 E29 · Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website
    30. S2026 E30 · United and American's Bitter Feud Over Chicago's Airport
    31. S2026 E31 · Why It's Illegal to Call a Drug "Stroebenazoline"
    32. S2026 E32 · The Weird, Scary Airspace Over Washington DC
    33. S2026 E33 · These Are HAI's Worst Mistakes of the Year
    34. S2026 E34 · This Is The Shortest Train in the United States

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