Half as Interesting - Season 7 / Year 2022

Season 7 / Year 2022
Episodes

Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn't Work

The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry

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

Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes

The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast

Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City

Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years

Why There's An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square

How to Start Your Own Town

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

Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously

Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight

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

Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?

Why This Sound is Illegal to Play

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

Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos

Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

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

Why You Can't Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp

How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute

The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=2

Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive

⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means

How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise

Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination

How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From

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

Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company

How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret

Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona

Minitel: France's Alternate Internet That Survived Until 2012

Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore

Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph

How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote

Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline

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

The CIA's Manual on How to be Annoying

The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money

Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

The Single Australian Farm That's Bigger Than 49 Countries

Russia's Terrible New Offbrand McDonald's

Why There's a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida's Swamplands

Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year

Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona

Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year

The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating

We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year

The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other

Why You Don't Want To Live On the US-Canada Border

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

How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System

Why National Parks Can't Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop

Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency

Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie

Why No One's Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution

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

The US Army's Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake

Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World's

Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem

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

Why DC's Shaped Like That

Why This is The World's Most Dangerous Dam

All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries

The NFL's Secret Plan For If All The Players Die

Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US

The McDonald's McPizza: A Huge Failure

Roosevelt Island's Pneumatic Trash System

Spotify's Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day

The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land

Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They're Fake)

How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World
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