Half as Interesting - Season 9 / Year 2024

Season 9 / Year 2024
Episodes

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
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