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Half as Interesting

All Episodes 2017 - 2024

  • 2018-01-11T15:00:00Zs at 2018-01-11T15:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 2017-08-31T14:00:00Z
  • 6m
  • 1d 21h 47m (459 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Special Interest
A YouTube show about somewhat interesting stuff. From the same creator of Wendover Productions.

459 episodes

Season Premiere

2017x01 What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?

  • 2017-08-31T14:00:00Z6m

What is the single longest drivable distance between two points on Earth? Find out in this episode of Half as Interesting.

What is the connection between a bunch of islands, the United States of America and bird poop? This episode will answer this question.

As long as an early flight to Orlando with 10 screaming babies behind you might seem, it's not the longest flight in history.

Let's see, guidelines for information and communication technology supply chain securty, preparation and characterization of Charpy V-notcj test pieces for indirect verification of pendulum impact machines, methods for the assessment of departure from roundness, this is going to be a good episode because it's about standardization, or rather, more specifically, ISO standard 3103, the internationally standard way of preparing a cup of tea.

If you ask an American, the northernmost town in the world is probably Toronto, Canada. If you ask a Brit, it's Edinburgh, Scotland, but for everyone else, the northernmost town is not these places. Sticka round so you will find out on this episode of Half as Interesting.

How do you know who to pay so your mail gets delivered. This is the episode who will answer this question.

Why can you find photos of the Eiffel Tower at the day and never at night? Find out on this episode.

So, here's the question: how fast can you circumnavigate the world on regularly scheduled, commercial flights? Find out on this episode.

Hello and welcome to the hieroglyoph episode of Half as Interesting where I head to a museum in Britain to talk to people from France about a language from Egypt to plug a game from Canada.

2017-11-02T14:00:00Z

2017x10 How to Read Barcodes

2017x10 How to Read Barcodes

  • 2017-11-02T14:00:00Z6m

So, when you stop in a store and scan a soda, the beiber beams laser and the bar cpde becomes numbers. How does this happen? Find out on this episode of Half as Interesting.

2017x11 Why the US' Land is Blocky

  • 2017-11-09T15:00:00Z6m

In this episode, you will learn why US' Land is blocky.

Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis will die. In this episode, you will learn about how the world will react to her death.

Let's see, a super secret, sovereign, international organization with ties to governments worldwide that dates back to the 11th century? Find out about this organization in this episode.

An intersection, home to a hotel, a gas station, a CSV, a mall and this U-Haul is one of the most significant locations in the motion picture industry, but nothing's really here. In this episode, you'll find out why this place is so important.

In this episode you will learn why the United Kingdom runs trains to nowhere.

For all you hip millennial AM radio listeners, you may have noticed something. A lot of AM radio stations shut down at night, and a lot of other ones can be heard from further away, and there's a good reason for that. In this episode, you will find why.

There are plenty of very legitimate studies linking your name to your life. In this episode you will learn more about this.

If you're a normal person, this is a super-interesting episode about a secret airline that brings secret people to secret places within the US. If you're a US governmental official or anyone else that could be peeved by me spreading semi-secret facts, this episode is about bricks.

Season Premiere

2018-01-04T15:00:00Z

2018x01 Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence

Season Premiere

2018x01 Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence

  • 2018-01-04T15:00:00Z6m

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will find out why Australians built a fence to keep the dingos from their farms

in this episode of Half as Interesting you will find out why Samoa skipped December 30, 2011.

In Longyearbyen, Norway, it is illegal to die. Today, you will learn why.

Today you will learn about the 809 objects left on the moon and the list that documents them all.

You don't have five senses. Well, you do, you just have more than five. In this episode we will dig deeper on this topic.

Tuvalu is an incredibly small and isolated nation that got 10% of their money by chance. In this episode you will learn more about this.

In this episode you will not learn about the longest physical train, but about the longest train line, which is a far more interesting concept.

In this episode you will learn about Free Ports.

Today you will lean why literally almost every price ends in 99 cents

Today you will learn why some countries have strict laws on names.

In this video you will learn how 29,000 lost rubber ducks helped map the world's oceans.

Today you will learn how real mind control works.

In this episode of Half As Interesting, you will learn why these words and phrases are illegal.

2018-04-05T14:00:00Z

2018x14 How to Make an Emoji

2018x14 How to Make an Emoji

  • 2018-04-05T14:00:00Z6m

In this video you will learn what you will need to do if you want to make a new emoji.

Today you will learn abou this 3,713 page document that makes or breaks economies.

In this episode you will learn the reasons behind diplomatic immunity.

In this episode you learn the reason behind the thousands of giant arrows that exist across the United States.

Today you will learn about New York's Hot Dog Stand License expensive fee.

Today you will learn why one road in the United States uses metric.

In today's episode of Half as Interesting, you will learn the reason behind the 11 births that happened in Antarctica.

In this episode of Half As Interesting you will learn how the US Government kept a town of 75,000 people in Tennessee a secret.

Today you learn the story about the two Diomede Islands and their eccentricities.

In this episode of Half As Interesting you will learn about the strike 3 Astronauts initiated.

In this episode of Half As Interesting how an island lost its fortune making a terrible musical.

In this episode you will learn why The Vatican has a railroad.

In today's episode of Half as Interesting you will learn about the shorted flight on the world, that lasts 53 seconds and costs 22 dollars.

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will learn about the unique city of Campione d'Italia, a place that belongs to Italy, but it is not there, and it sort of isn't part of the EU.

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will learn the reasons behind the illegaligality of Wifi on Green Bank, West Virginia.

In this episode of Half as Intesresting you will discover why London Heathrow Airport had empty flights to nowhere.

In this episode of Half as Intresting we will dig (not so deep) on the secret subway system under the United States Capitol.

In this episode of Half as Interesting, you will learn why there's an American High School in Communist Cuba.

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will discover the country that used to exist between the US and Canada

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will learn about this super long traffic jam that happened in China.

In this episode of Half As Interesting you will learn about the secretive book that names all the cheaters in Las Vegas.

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will learn about a time of American history when mail was delivered by missile.

In this episode of Half as Interesting, (almost) every mistake we have ever made on previous episodes will be corrected.

In this episode of Half As Interesting you will learn about the island that switches between Spain and France every six months.

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will learn about the fake neighborhoods that exist on Google Maps.

2018x39 Why Iceland Imports Ice

  • 2018-09-20T14:00:00Z6m

In this episode you will learn why Iceland imports ice.

In this episode of Half as Interesting you will learn about the baboon that controlled a railway for nine years.

Season Premiere

2019-01-03T15:00:00Z

2019x01 North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ

Season Premiere

2019x01 North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ

  • 2019-01-03T15:00:00Z6m

2019x10 How Kim Jong-un Travels

  • 2019-03-07T15:00:00Z6m

2019-10-24T14:00:00Z

2019x44 How the Queen Travels

2019x44 How the Queen Travels

  • 2019-10-24T14:00:00Z6m

2019x45 The Tree That Owns Itself

  • 2019-10-25T14:00:00Z6m

2019-11-29T15:00:00Z

2019x52 Who Owns New Islands?

2019x52 Who Owns New Islands?

  • 2019-11-29T15:00:00Z6m

Season Premiere

2020x01 How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide

  • 2020-01-04T15:00:00Z6m

2020-04-28T14:00:00Z

2020x26 Who Owns the Rain?

2020x26 Who Owns the Rain?

  • 2020-04-28T14:00:00Z6m

2021x16 The US' Butter Size Border

  • 2021-03-23T14:00:00Z6m

2021x50 Hooters' Very Real Airline

  • 2021-08-30T14:00:00Z6m

Season Premiere

2022-01-04T15:00:00Z

2022x01 Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

Season Premiere

2022x01 Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?

  • 2022-01-04T15:00:00Z6m

2022x11 How to Start Your Own Town

  • 2022-02-19T15:00:00Z6m

2022x65 Why DC's Shaped Like That

  • 2022-11-08T15:00:00Z5m

Season Premiere

2023-01-04T15:00:00Z

2023x01 Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard

Season Premiere

2023x01 Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard

  • 2023-01-04T15:00:00Z6m

Video written by Ben Doyle

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