Season 2024

Half as Interesting

56 Episodes Premiered January 4, 2024

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Episodes

1
EP 1

South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere

Jan 4, 2024

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EP 2

Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert

Jan 11, 2024

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3
EP 3

The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

Jan 16, 2024

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EP 4

How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

Jan 19, 2024

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5
EP 5

How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

Jan 25, 2024

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EP 6

Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

Jan 26, 2024

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EP 7

The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

Jan 31, 2024

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EP 8

The Logistics of White House State Dinners

Jan 31, 2024

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EP 9

The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

Feb 5, 2024

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EP 10

How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

Feb 19, 2024

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EP 11

Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

Feb 25, 2024

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EP 12

Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

Feb 28, 2024

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EP 13

Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana

Feb 29, 2024

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EP 14

Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

Mar 19, 2024

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EP 15

Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

Mar 22, 2024

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EP 16

The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

Mar 27, 2024

Video written by Ben Doyle

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EP 17

Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

Mar 31, 2024

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EP 18

How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

Apr 6, 2024

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EP 19

The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

Apr 16, 2024

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EP 20

The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

Apr 23, 2024

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EP 21

How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

May 1, 2024

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EP 22

Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

May 9, 2024

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EP 23

The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

May 14, 2024

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EP 24

The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

May 17, 2024

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EP 25

Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

May 24, 2024

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EP 26

Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

Jun 3, 2024

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27
EP 27

Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

Jun 6, 2024

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EP 28

Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

Jun 13, 2024

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EP 29

The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

Jun 25, 2024

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EP 30

Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System

Jul 1, 2024

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EP 31

How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

Jul 8, 2024

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32
EP 32

How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

Jul 15, 2024

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EP 33

How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

Jul 19, 2024

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EP 34

How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

Jul 30, 2024

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EP 35

The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

Aug 1, 2024

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EP 36

The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

Aug 9, 2024

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EP 37

The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

Aug 20, 2024

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EP 38

The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

Aug 26, 2024

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EP 39

The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

Sep 3, 2024

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EP 40

The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

Sep 7, 2024

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EP 41

The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.

Sep 18, 2024

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42
EP 42

Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans

Sep 26, 2024

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EP 43

How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

Sep 30, 2024

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EP 44

Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water

Oct 10, 2024

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EP 45

How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

Oct 17, 2024

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EP 46

How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

Oct 25, 2024

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47
EP 47

How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

Oct 30, 2024

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EP 48

How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

Oct 31, 2024

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EP 49

Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever

Nov 12, 2024

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EP 50

The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

Nov 19, 2024

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EP 51

How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes

Nov 26, 2024

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EP 52

How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

Nov 30, 2024

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EP 53

The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

Dec 12, 2024

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EP 54

How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days

Dec 17, 2024

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EP 55

How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole

Dec 24, 2024

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EP 56

The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau

Dec 26, 2024

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