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Half as Interesting Season 2020

Returning Series

Season 2020 Episodes

77 episodes
1
How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
Jan 4, 2020
2
Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
Jan 8, 2020
3
The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
Jan 10, 2020
4
The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
Jan 16, 2020
5
The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
Jan 21, 2020
6
The Highway Where Cars are Banned
Jan 23, 2020
7
How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
Jan 31, 2020
8
The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
Feb 4, 2020
9
How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
Feb 6, 2020
10
Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
Feb 13, 2020
11
How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
Feb 18, 2020
12
Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
Feb 20, 2020
13
Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
Feb 27, 2020
14
Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
Mar 3, 2020
15
The Airport Where Planes go to Die
Mar 5, 2020
16
The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
Mar 13, 2020
17
How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
Mar 18, 2020
18
The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
Mar 20, 2020
19
The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
Mar 26, 2020
20
How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
Mar 31, 2020
21
How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
Apr 2, 2020
22
The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
Apr 9, 2020
23
United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
Apr 14, 2020
24
The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
Apr 16, 2020
25
A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
Apr 23, 2020
26
Who Owns the Rain?
Apr 28, 2020
27
How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
May 1, 2020
28
Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
May 7, 2020
29
Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
May 12, 2020
30
The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
May 15, 2020
31
The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
May 21, 2020
32
The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
May 26, 2020
33
Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
May 28, 2020
34
Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
Jun 4, 2020
35
The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
Jun 9, 2020
36
Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
Jun 11, 2020
37
The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
Jun 18, 2020
38
The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
Jun 23, 2020
39
Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
Jun 25, 2020
40
The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
Jul 2, 2020
41
How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
Jul 7, 2020
42
The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
Jul 10, 2020
43
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Jul 16, 2020
44
Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
Jul 21, 2020
45
Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
Jul 23, 2020
46
The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
Jul 30, 2020
47
How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
Aug 4, 2020
48
The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
Aug 6, 2020
49
Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
Aug 13, 2020
50
Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
Aug 18, 2020
51
How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
Aug 20, 2020
52
Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
Aug 28, 2020
53
How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
Sep 1, 2020
54
The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
Sep 3, 2020
55
The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
Sep 10, 2020
56
Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
Sep 15, 2020
57
Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
Sep 17, 2020
58
Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
Sep 25, 2020
59
The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
Sep 29, 2020
60
Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
Oct 2, 2020
61
Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
Oct 13, 2020
62
The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
Oct 15, 2020
63
Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
Oct 20, 2020
64
Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
Oct 22, 2020
65
Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
Oct 27, 2020
66
Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
Oct 29, 2020
67
How Astronauts Vote from Space
Nov 3, 2020
68
Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
Nov 10, 2020
69
How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
Nov 13, 2020
70
Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
Nov 20, 2020
71
How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
Nov 25, 2020
72
Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
Dec 5, 2020
73
We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
Dec 9, 2020
74
What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
Dec 13, 2020
75
Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
Dec 17, 2020
76
How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
Dec 22, 2020
77
Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years
Dec 26, 2020