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Half as Interesting
A YouTube show about somewhat interesting stuff. From the same creator of Wendover Productions.
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Seasons (11)
Season 2017
- 1What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?31 Aug 2017
- 2Why You Can Claim Islands for the US if They Have Bird Poop7 Sep 2017
- 3The 64 Day Longest Flight in History14 Sep 2017
- 4The $40 Internationally Standard Cup of Tea21 Sep 2017
- 5What's the Northernmost Town in the world?28 Sep 2017
- 6The Enormous Spreadsheet that Runs the World's Mail5 Oct 2017
- 7Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal12 Oct 2017
- 8How Fast Can You Circumnavigate the World on Commercial Flights?19 Oct 2017
- 9The Not-So-Simple Process of Deciphering Hieroglyphs26 Oct 2017
- 10How to Read Barcodes2 Nov 2017
- 11Why the US' Land is Blocky9 Nov 2017
- 12The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies16 Nov 2017
- 13The Country with No Territory23 Nov 2017
- 14The 30 Mile Zone That Explains Why Hollywood Exists30 Nov 2017
- 15Why the UK Runs Trains to Nowhere7 Dec 2017
- 16Why Some AM Radio Stations Don't Work at Night14 Dec 2017
- 17What Your Name Decides About Your Life21 Dec 2017
- 18The US Government's Secret Airline28 Dec 2017
Season 2018
- 1Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence4 Jan 2018
- 2Why Samoa Skipped December 30, 201111 Jan 2018
- 3Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway18 Jan 2018
- 4The 809 Objects Left on the Moon25 Jan 2018
- 5Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses1 Feb 2018
- 6How This Pacific Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance8 Feb 2018
- 7What's the Longest Train in the World?15 Feb 2018
- 8The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country22 Feb 2018
- 9Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents1 Mar 2018
- 10Why It's Illegal to be Named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb111168 Mar 2018
- 11How 29,000 Lost Rubber Ducks Helped Map the World's Oceans15 Mar 2018
- 12How Real Mind Control Works22 Mar 2018
- 13Why These Words are Illegal29 Mar 2018
- 14How to Make an Emoji5 Apr 2018
- 15The 3,713 Page Document That Makes or Breaks Economies12 Apr 2018
- 16Why Diplomats Can't be Arrested19 Apr 2018
- 17Why There Are Thousands of Giant Arrows Across the US26 Apr 2018
- 18The $289,500 New York Hot Dog Stand License3 May 2018
- 19Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)10 May 2018
- 20Why 11 Babies Have Been Born in Antarctica17 May 2018
- 21How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret24 May 2018
- 22Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart31 May 2018
- 23That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space7 Jun 2018
- 24How an Island Lost Its Fortune Making a Terrible Musical14 Jun 2018
- 25Why the World's Smallest Country Has a Railroad21 Jun 2018
- 26The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World29 Jun 2018
- 27The Italian Town That's Not in Italy (or the EU... kind of)5 Jul 2018
- 28Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia12 Jul 2018
- 29Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere19 Jul 2018
- 30The Somewhat Secret Subway System Under the US Capitol27 Jul 2018
- 31Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba2 Aug 2018
- 32The Country That Used to Exist Between the US and Canada9 Aug 2018
- 33The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam16 Aug 2018
- 34The Secretive Book That Names All the Cheaters in Vegas23 Aug 2018
- 35The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile30 Aug 2018
- 36Every Mistake We've Ever Made31 Aug 2018
- 37The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months6 Sep 2018
- 38The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps13 Sep 2018
- 39Why Iceland Imports Ice20 Sep 2018
- 40The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years27 Sep 2018
- 41Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth4 Oct 2018
- 42How A Massive Dam in China Slowed the Earth's Rotation11 Oct 2018
- 43Why It's Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons18 Oct 2018
- 44How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada25 Oct 2018
- 45How This Island Near Australia Was Undiscovered1 Nov 2018
- 46The Man Who Was Stuck in Paris Airport for 18 Years8 Nov 2018
- 47Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space15 Nov 2018
- 48Why This Island Might be in Canada or Might be in the US22 Nov 2018
- 49The Secret Train Station Under New York City29 Nov 2018
- 50The 32-Hour Longest Commercial Flight in History6 Dec 2018
- 51What's the Shortest International Border in the World?13 Dec 2018
- 52Centralia: The Town That's Been on Fire Since 196220 Dec 2018
- 53Why It's (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors27 Dec 2018
Season 2019
- 1North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ3 Jan 2019
- 2Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable10 Jan 2019
- 3The Completely Real American $100,000 Bill17 Jan 2019
- 4What's the Furthest You Could Travel Without a Passport?24 Jan 2019
- 5What Living in the World's Coldest Town is Like31 Jan 2019
- 6The US' Plan for a Hypothetical War with Britain7 Feb 2019
- 7The US Government's $350 Million Doomsday Plane14 Feb 2019
- 8Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany21 Feb 2019
- 9How a Missing Comma Cost a Company $5 Million28 Feb 2019
- 10How Kim Jong-un Travels7 Mar 2019
- 11What Is the Shortest-Lived Country in History?14 Mar 2019
- 12The 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown21 Mar 2019
- 13Why Every Map of China is Just Slightly Wrong28 Mar 2019
- 14The Secret Radio Stations Used to Communicate with Spies4 Apr 2019
- 15What's the Most Isolated City in the World?11 Apr 2019
- 16How Ireland Accidentally Legalized Drugs for Two Days18 Apr 2019
- 17Why Berlin's 15 Year-Old Airport has Never Had a Flight25 Apr 2019
- 18How an Australian Prime Minister Disappeared Without a Trace2 May 2019
- 19Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists9 May 2019
- 20Why This Capital City Has a Population of Zero16 May 2019
- 21Why South Korea Will be Silent on November, 14, 201923 May 2019
- 22The Law That Lets You Legally Steal Houses6 Jun 2019
- 23How a Manhole Cover Became the Fastest Manmade Object Ever13 Jun 2019
- 24How a Boeing 727 Was Stolen (And Never Found)20 Jun 2019
- 25The Secret Codes that Printers Put on Every Paper27 Jun 2019
- 26Why There's Only One American Cruise Ship4 Jul 2019
- 27How Australia Printed a Typo 46 Million Times11 Jul 2019
- 28The $14.3 Million World's Most Expensive License Plate18 Jul 2019
- 29The US Government's Airline for Prisoners25 Jul 2019
- 30Quarter as Interesting: The Topics That Weren't Good Enough2 Aug 2019
- 31The Island Invented to Scam a Rich Guy8 Aug 2019
- 32North Korea's Tiny, Terrible Airline15 Aug 2019
- 33Why There's Less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada22 Aug 2019
- 34The US' Terrible Mistake of Selling $1 Coins for $129 Aug 2019
- 35Every Mistake We've Ever Made (2 Fast 2 Spurious)31 Aug 2019
- 36The Tiny Building Where 285,000 Businesses are Based5 Sep 2019
- 37The Places Where Sneaking Over the US-Canada Border is Legal13 Sep 2019
- 38The $250,000 Unlimited Flight Pass: A Terrible Mistake19 Sep 2019
- 39The Global Restaurant Chain Run by North Korea26 Sep 2019
- 40The Cruise Ship That People Live On4 Oct 2019
- 41Why There's a Completely Russian Town in Norway9 Oct 2019
- 42Why This Parrot is in Witness Protection11 Oct 2019
- 43How Much is the US President Paid?17 Oct 2019
- 44How the Queen Travels24 Oct 2019
- 45The Tree That Owns Itself25 Oct 2019
- 46The Bit of East Germany That Might Still Exist31 Oct 2019
- 47Why North Dakota Wasn't Technically a State Until 20127 Nov 2019
- 48Why the Dutch King Works as a Pilot for KLM12 Nov 2019
- 49The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC14 Nov 2019
- 50The US Government's Trillion Dollar Coin21 Nov 2019
- 51What's the Longest Possible Commercial Flight?28 Nov 2019
- 52Who Owns New Islands?29 Nov 2019
- 53The Time a Senator Spoke for 24-Hours Straight5 Dec 2019
- 54Why Saudi Arabia Imports Sand10 Dec 2019
- 55What's the Most Expensive Single Thing?12 Dec 2019
- 56The Nazi Weather Station in North America19 Dec 2019
- 57The Only Town in the US With a Population of One24 Dec 2019
- 58How to Celebrate New Year's Eve Six Times in One Night31 Dec 2019
Season 2020
- 1How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide4 Jan 2020
- 2Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened8 Jan 2020
- 3The Secret Tunnel Under the White House10 Jan 2020
- 4The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day16 Jan 2020
- 5The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists21 Jan 2020
- 6The Highway Where Cars are Banned23 Jan 2020
- 7How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law31 Jan 2020
- 8The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro4 Feb 2020
- 9How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet6 Feb 2020
- 10Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies13 Feb 2020
- 11How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money18 Feb 2020
- 12Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent20 Feb 2020
- 13Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair27 Feb 2020
- 14Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time3 Mar 2020
- 15The Airport Where Planes go to Die5 Mar 2020
- 16The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night13 Mar 2020
- 17How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics18 Mar 2020
- 18The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 197020 Mar 2020
- 19The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft26 Mar 2020
- 20How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government31 Mar 2020
- 21How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases2 Apr 2020
- 22The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened9 Apr 2020
- 23United Airlines' Men-Only Flights14 Apr 2020
- 24The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France16 Apr 2020
- 25A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight23 Apr 2020
- 26Who Owns the Rain?28 Apr 2020
- 27How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader1 May 2020
- 28Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan7 May 2020
- 29Why This Coin is Illegal to Own12 May 2020
- 30The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire15 May 2020
- 31The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever21 May 2020
- 32The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing26 May 2020
- 33Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question28 May 2020
- 34Texas' Embassy in Washington DC4 Jun 2020
- 35The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate9 Jun 2020
- 36Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks11 Jun 2020
- 37The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired18 Jun 2020
- 38The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago23 Jun 2020
- 39Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation25 Jun 2020
- 40The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds2 Jul 2020
- 41How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic7 Jul 2020
- 42The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery10 Jul 2020
- 43Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo16 Jul 2020
- 44Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland21 Jul 2020
- 45Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City23 Jul 2020
- 46The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet30 Jul 2020
- 47How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy4 Aug 2020
- 48The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing6 Aug 2020
- 49Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII13 Aug 2020
- 50Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left18 Aug 2020
- 51How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines20 Aug 2020
- 52Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift28 Aug 2020
- 53How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government1 Sep 2020
- 54The 639 Year Longest Song Ever3 Sep 2020
- 55The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,84510 Sep 2020
- 56Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight15 Sep 2020
- 57Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins17 Sep 2020
- 58Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe25 Sep 2020
- 59The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport29 Sep 2020
- 60Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $682 Oct 2020
- 61Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better13 Oct 2020
- 62The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday15 Oct 2020
- 63Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists20 Oct 2020
- 64Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa22 Oct 2020
- 65Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal27 Oct 2020
- 66Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads29 Oct 2020
- 67How Astronauts Vote from Space3 Nov 2020
- 68Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea10 Nov 2020
- 69How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network13 Nov 2020
- 70Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland20 Nov 2020
- 71How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter25 Nov 2020
- 72Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous5 Dec 2020
- 73We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)9 Dec 2020
- 74What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?13 Dec 2020
- 75Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist17 Dec 2020
- 76How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language22 Dec 2020
- 77Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years26 Dec 2020
Season 2021
- 1What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws5 Jan 2021
- 2The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison7 Jan 2021
- 3Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England15 Jan 2021
- 4Why There's an American National Park in Canada19 Jan 2021
- 5Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans22 Jan 2021
- 6Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words28 Jan 2021
- 7Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer2 Feb 2021
- 8Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile4 Feb 2021
- 9Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids11 Feb 2021
- 10The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser16 Feb 2021
- 11The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare2 Mar 2021
- 12Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents4 Mar 2021
- 13This is a Video About Bricks10 Mar 2021
- 14The Year Without a Summer Season16 Mar 2021
- 15Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"18 Mar 2021
- 16The US' Butter Size Border23 Mar 2021
- 17Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort29 Mar 2021
- 18The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don't Know They Know31 Mar 2021
- 19How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours8 Apr 2021
- 20Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels12 Apr 2021
- 21How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life14 Apr 2021
- 22Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground16 Apr 2021
- 23How the World's Newest Language Developed22 Apr 2021
- 24What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?28 Apr 2021
- 25How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe30 Apr 2021
- 26Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest6 May 2021
- 27How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections11 May 2021
- 28Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant14 May 2021
- 29Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland20 May 2021
- 30How the World's Most Complicated Language Works25 May 2021
- 31What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?28 May 2021
- 32How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works3 Jun 2021
- 33The CIA's Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers9 Jun 2021
- 34Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US11 Jun 2021
- 35How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill18 Jun 2021
- 36Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second25 Jun 2021
- 37Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)29 Jun 2021
- 38Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today1 Jul 2021
- 39What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?7 Jul 2021
- 40The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You9 Jul 2021
- 41Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula15 Jul 2021
- 42Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)20 Jul 2021
- 43Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes23 Jul 2021
- 44The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving29 Jul 2021
- 45How to Decode Credit Card Numbers3 Aug 2021
- 46The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code6 Aug 2021
- 47Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases12 Aug 2021
- 48Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week20 Aug 2021
- 49Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off27 Aug 2021
- 50Hooters' Very Real Airline30 Aug 2021
- 51Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope31 Aug 2021
- 52The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)7 Sep 2021
- 53Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed10 Sep 2021
- 54The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan14 Sep 2021
- 55How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret20 Sep 2021
- 56How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret24 Sep 2021
- 57Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City28 Sep 2021
- 58The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally30 Sep 2021
- 59Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England7 Oct 2021
- 60A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy13 Oct 2021
- 61Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,64515 Oct 2021
- 62Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists22 Oct 2021
- 63Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze27 Oct 2021
- 64Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is28 Oct 2021
- 65The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans29 Oct 2021
- 66Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year5 Nov 2021
- 67Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records9 Nov 2021
- 68Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere11 Nov 2021
- 69Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon17 Nov 2021
- 70Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year18 Nov 2021
- 71How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions22 Nov 2021
- 72Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February24 Nov 2021
- 73Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo26 Nov 2021
- 74Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 20273 Dec 2021
- 75How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks7 Dec 2021
- 76Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole9 Dec 2021
- 77Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn't Exist in the US14 Dec 2021
- 78Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East16 Dec 2021
- 79Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant22 Dec 2021
- 80The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding23 Dec 2021
- 81Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?31 Dec 2021
Season 2022
- 1Why Don't Artificial Flavors Taste Accurate?4 Jan 2022
- 2The Bug That Created "Free Public Wifi" Networks That Didn't Work6 Jan 2022
- 3The Fake Buildings That Hide LA's Massive Oil Industry13 Jan 2022
- 4Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years20 Jan 2022
- 5Why Flights Through China Take Such Weird Routes22 Jan 2022
- 6The Software Bug That Blacked Out the Entire US Northeast31 Jan 2022
- 7Why There is a Giant Floating Prison In New York City2 Feb 2022
- 8Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color9 Feb 2022
- 9How Disney Legally Issued its Own Currency for 29 Years11 Feb 2022
- 10Why There's An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square16 Feb 2022
- 11How to Start Your Own Town19 Feb 2022
- 12The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm28 Feb 2022
- 13Why Hundreds of Mazdas Tuned to 94.9 Broke Simultaneously2 Mar 2022
- 14Why Chicago Secretly Bulldozed Its Own Airport Overnight4 Mar 2022
- 15Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever10 Mar 2022
- 16Why Do Americans In Old Movies Sound British?16 Mar 2022
- 17Why This Sound is Illegal to Play18 Mar 2022
- 18You've Sent 124,882 Topic Ideas. Here are the Worst Ones.25 Mar 2022
- 19Why You Never Take a 90-Degree Turn in Casinos29 Mar 2022
- 20Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds31 Mar 2022
- 21Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border8 Apr 2022
- 22The Man Who Broke The Internet By Deleting 11 Lines of Code12 Apr 2022
- 23Why You Can't Be Fired in China If You Have This Stamp14 Apr 2022
- 24How Stenographers Type at 300 Words Per Minute21 Apr 2022
- 25The 360-Page Proof That 1+1=227 Apr 2022
- 26Why Steel from Before 1945 is Weirdly Expensive29 Apr 2022
- 27⍼ - Why Nobody Knows What This One Unicode Character Means6 May 2022
- 28How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise10 May 2022
- 29Why Cancun is the Mathematically Perfect Vacation Destination20 May 2022
- 30How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From24 May 2022
- 31Why Thousands of Chinese Tourists Started Coming to a Random British Village26 May 2022
- 32Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company31 May 2022
- 33How Coca Cola (Actually) Keeps Its Secret Recipe Secret2 Jun 2022
- 34Why All U-Hauls are Registered in Arizona7 Jun 2022
- 35Minitel: France's Alternate Internet That Survived Until 20129 Jun 2022
- 36Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore16 Jun 2022
- 37Why GPS Automatically Shuts Itself Down Above 1,200 mph21 Jun 2022
- 38How an Australian Senator Won With 0.51% Of The Vote28 Jun 2022
- 39Why the United Nations Runs Its Own Airline30 Jun 2022
- 40The High Five Was Invented in 1977 (Yes, Really)5 Jul 2022
- 41The CIA's Manual on How to be Annoying8 Jul 2022
- 42The ATM Glitch That Gave Out Infinite Money14 Jul 2022
- 43Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland19 Jul 2022
- 44The Single Australian Farm That's Bigger Than 49 Countries22 Jul 2022
- 45Russia's Terrible New Offbrand McDonald's1 Aug 2022
- 46Why There's a Massive Runway in the Middle of Florida's Swamplands4 Aug 2022
- 47Why The London Underground Makes Itself Hotter Every Year9 Aug 2022
- 48Why The Vatican Has A Giant Research Telescope in Arizona12 Aug 2022
- 49Why Chess Strategy Changes Every Year16 Aug 2022
- 50The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating22 Aug 2022
- 51We Ranked Every Mistake We Made This Year25 Aug 2022
- 52The Science Behind Why Friends Smell Like Each Other31 Aug 2022
- 53Why You Don't Want To Live On the US-Canada Border6 Sep 2022
- 54The Man Who Owns All The Bread In Israel For Eight Days A Year12 Sep 2022
- 55How To Design A Completely Unbreakable Encryption System14 Sep 2022
- 56Why National Parks Can't Figure Out What To Do With Your Poop20 Sep 2022
- 57Why The Ringling Bros. Operated A Secret Spy Agency28 Sep 2022
- 58Why It Takes Pixar 3 Years To Render A Movie30 Sep 2022
- 59Why No One's Sure If This Is Part Of The US Constitution7 Oct 2022
- 60Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US13 Oct 2022
- 61The US Army's Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake15 Oct 2022
- 62Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World's22 Oct 2022
- 63Why There Are No Ambulances In Jerusalem27 Oct 2022
- 64Somaliland Is Independent. So Why Does No One Recognize It?1 Nov 2022
- 65Why DC's Shaped Like That8 Nov 2022
- 66Why This is The World's Most Dangerous Dam10 Nov 2022
- 67All The Very Real Passports Not Issued By Countries15 Nov 2022
- 68The NFL's Secret Plan For If All The Players Die18 Nov 2022
- 69Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US22 Nov 2022
- 70The McDonald's McPizza: A Huge Failure2 Dec 2022
- 71Roosevelt Island's Pneumatic Trash System6 Dec 2022
- 72Spotify's Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste9 Dec 2022
- 73Toki Pona: The Language You Can Learn in a Day15 Dec 2022
- 74The Weirdly Massive Problem of Blocked Public Land22 Dec 2022
- 75Why Cardboard Cops Work (Even If You Know They're Fake)27 Dec 2022
- 76How the US Sends Top Secret Information Around The World30 Dec 2022
Season 2023
- 1Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard4 Jan 2023
- 2The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite11 Jan 2023
- 3Why Canada's Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore18 Jan 2023
- 4The Navy's Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke20 Jan 2023
- 5The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal21 Jan 2023
- 6Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income30 Jan 2023
- 7The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California's Smallest Town2 Feb 2023
- 8How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity5 Feb 2023
- 9Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii13 Feb 2023
- 10Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River16 Feb 2023
- 11The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota22 Feb 2023
- 12How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts24 Feb 2023
- 13Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules1 Mar 2023
- 14Why It's Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine6 Mar 2023
- 15Why American Lawns All Look The Same9 Mar 2023
- 16The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System16 Mar 2023
- 17North Korea's Bizarre New Propaganda Program18 Mar 2023
- 18How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate23 Mar 2023
- 19How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office28 Mar 2023
- 20The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That's Coming for Florida31 Mar 2023
- 21How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery7 Apr 2023
- 22The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama12 Apr 2023
- 23The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It15 Apr 2023
- 24This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)24 Apr 2023
- 25Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship28 Apr 2023
- 26The Giant Propaganda Show That's In Almost Every City1 May 2023
- 27How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets7 May 2023
- 28How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?9 May 2023
- 29The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws12 May 2023
- 30Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power20 May 2023
- 31Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap23 May 2023
- 32The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague26 May 2023
- 33Dyson's Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel5 Jun 2023
- 34How Planes Forecast Turbulence8 Jun 2023
- 35Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback12 Jun 2023
- 36How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin' Dots16 Jun 2023
- 37How the World's 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work22 Jun 2023
- 38The Intense Logistics of Truffles26 Jun 2023
- 39Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire30 Jun 2023
- 40How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything4 Jul 2023
- 41We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.12 Jul 2023
- 42Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana15 Jul 2023
- 43Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month18 Jul 2023
- 44Trains' Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves21 Jul 2023
- 45How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche31 Jul 2023
- 46Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns4 Aug 2023
- 47The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans8 Aug 2023
- 48Chicago's $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake10 Aug 2023
- 49Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport16 Aug 2023
- 50The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires22 Aug 2023
- 51How The Pentagon Became The World's Most Secure Building29 Aug 2023
- 52The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns30 Aug 2023
- 53Every Mistake We've Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie31 Aug 2023
- 54The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World12 Sep 2023
- 55Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant19 Sep 2023
- 56The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific21 Sep 2023
- 57How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection28 Sep 2023
- 58How The President's Official Vacation Home Works29 Sep 2023
- 59Why Venice's New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works30 Sep 2023
- 60The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal6 Oct 2023
- 61Australia's Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water12 Oct 2023
- 62How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below20 Oct 2023
- 63Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC25 Oct 2023
- 64Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide26 Oct 2023
- 65How 70% of Britain's Cash Went Missing28 Oct 2023
- 66How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town6 Nov 2023
- 67Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies15 Nov 2023
- 68The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They're Banned in the EU17 Nov 2023
- 69Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht21 Nov 2023
- 70The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse27 Nov 2023
- 71NASA's Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars30 Nov 2023
- 72The Vault That Holds 5% of the World's Gold7 Dec 2023
- 73The Controversial Machine That's Ruining Bowling12 Dec 2023
- 74What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag19 Dec 2023
- 75The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use26 Dec 2023
- 76Why China Took the US' Pandas28 Dec 2023
Season 2024
- 1South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere4 Jan 2024
- 2Why There's a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert11 Jan 2024
- 3The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible16 Jan 2024
- 4How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons19 Jan 2024
- 5How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof25 Jan 2024
- 6Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes26 Jan 2024
- 7The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students31 Jan 2024
- 8The Logistics of White House State Dinners31 Jan 2024
- 9The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US' Highest Taxicab Density5 Feb 2024
- 10How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand19 Feb 2024
- 11Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other25 Feb 2024
- 12Why It's So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome28 Feb 2024
- 13Why We're Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana29 Feb 2024
- 14Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC19 Mar 2024
- 15Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot22 Mar 2024
- 16The Logistics of Prescribed Fires27 Mar 2024
- 17Why Don't Planes Carry Parachutes?31 Mar 2024
- 18How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)6 Apr 2024
- 19The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel16 Apr 2024
- 20The Obscure System That Syncs All The World's Clocks23 Apr 2024
- 21How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million1 May 2024
- 22Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong9 May 2024
- 23The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors14 May 2024
- 24The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri17 May 2024
- 25Why There's a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho24 May 2024
- 26Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps3 Jun 2024
- 27Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week6 Jun 2024
- 28Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means13 Jun 2024
- 29The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea25 Jun 2024
- 30Mumbai's Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System1 Jul 2024
- 31How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time8 Jul 2024
- 32How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable15 Jul 2024
- 33How America's Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works19 Jul 2024
- 34How the US Gov's Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses30 Jul 2024
- 35The One Long Wire Ruining America's Most Important Train1 Aug 2024
- 36The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics9 Aug 2024
- 37The Logistics of Mount Everest's Base Camp20 Aug 2024
- 38The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People26 Aug 2024
- 39The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year3 Sep 2024
- 40The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a "Miracle"7 Sep 2024
- 41The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.18 Sep 2024
- 42Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans26 Sep 2024
- 43How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer30 Sep 2024
- 44Why Only One US City Doesn't Add Fluoride to Its Water10 Oct 2024
- 45How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth17 Oct 2024
- 46How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market25 Oct 2024
- 47How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency30 Oct 2024
- 48How The USA's Only Car-Free Village Works31 Oct 2024
- 49Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever12 Nov 2024
- 50The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship19 Nov 2024
- 51How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes26 Nov 2024
- 52How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours30 Nov 2024
- 53The US' Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team12 Dec 2024
- 54How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days17 Dec 2024
- 55How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole24 Dec 2024
- 56The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau26 Dec 2024
Season 2025
- 1Why People Live In Tubes At The Bottom of the Ocean14 Jan 2025
- 2How Renault Won an F1 Race by Crashing a Car21 Jan 2025
- 3The Nuke-Proof US Military Base in a Mountain24 Jan 2025
- 4This 2-Mile Long Gondola Cost $52 Million29 Jan 2025
- 5The Swimsuit So Good They Banned It31 Jan 2025
- 6The Unspoken Rules of LEGO Sets13 Feb 2025
- 7Brooklyn's Only Interstate Is Doomed21 Feb 2025
- 8The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil's Economy28 Feb 2025
- 9500 Terrible Topics We Didn't Make Videos About4 Mar 2025
- 10The 19 Year Process of Inventing a New Apple13 Mar 2025
- 11The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices18 Mar 2025
- 12How to Design the Perfect F1 Track31 Mar 2025
- 13The Decades-Long Battle Over Low-Flow Toilets11 Apr 2025
- 14How The Largest Human Gathering In The World Works15 Apr 2025
- 15All The Loopholes to Travel from Europe to Russia25 Apr 2025
- 16Why Isn't There Public Transit From the Airport to Disney World?28 Apr 2025
- 17The Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper That Sold for $1030 Apr 2025
- 18Why You Need Sand from This Town to Make a Computer21 May 2025
- 19The Scam That Hit Every Adult in Canada28 May 2025
- 20The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not "Live" in NYC29 May 2025
- 21The 467 Rules You Have to Follow to Put an Animal in a Movie30 May 2025
- 22The Absurd Science Behind Really Good Bowling Balls17 Jun 2025
- 23How Much of the Moon Is On Earth?24 Jun 2025
- 24The CIA's Secret Star Wars Fan Blog26 Jun 2025
- 25Why Isn't There Public Transit from the Airport to the Vegas Strip?27 Jun 2025
- 26Why the US' 2nd-Busiest Passenger Railway Is Doomed30 Jun 2025
- 27Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks11 Jul 2025
- 28The Insane Logistics of Pro Baseball25 Jul 2025
- 29The Most Controversial Half-Acre in NYC29 Jul 2025
- 30Detroit's Tiny, Terrible Metro System31 Jul 2025
- 31The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against11 Aug 2025
- 32The Insane Production Schedule of Love Island19 Aug 2025
- 33The Multimillionaire Feud Over Horse Clones25 Aug 2025
- 34The Decades-Long Fight Over The Font on Highway Signs29 Aug 2025
- 35The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year (Again)1 Sep 2025
- 36All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway22 Sep 2025
- 37Why There's a 61-Mile Conveyor Belt in the Sahara Desert25 Sep 2025
- 38France Sent Their Dumbest Spies to Blow Up This Boat in NZ29 Sep 2025
- 39Why Does the World's Biggest Ship Exist?30 Sep 2025
- 40Why This Car Basically Only Exists in NYC3 Oct 2025
- 41The Risky Logistics of Alaska's Food Supply Chain21 Oct 2025
- 42How Indonesia Is Accidentally Sinking Their Capital23 Oct 2025
- 43How They Just Discovered a New 14,000 Foot Mountain30 Oct 2025
- 44How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?31 Oct 2025
- 45The Design of the World's Most Secure Banknote11 Nov 2025
- 46The US Military's Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System18 Nov 2025
- 47How FEMA's Doomsday Radio System Works30 Nov 2025
- 48Why It's So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are4 Dec 2025
- 49The US Military's Fast Food Division15 Dec 2025
- 50How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People22 Dec 2025
- 51Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 201524 Dec 2025
- 52The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree31 Dec 2025
Season 2026
- 1How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes14 Jan 2026
- 2This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time21 Jan 2026
- 3The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette28 Jan 2026
- 4The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design30 Jan 2026
- 5The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage31 Jan 2026
- 6Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky10 Feb 2026
- 7The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink25 Feb 2026
- 8The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck27 Feb 2026
- 9The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America2 Mar 2026
- 10Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works17 Mar 2026
- 11The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution24 Mar 2026
- 12The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey27 Mar 2026
- 13Why Amtrak's Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed8 Apr 2026
- 14The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use10 Apr 2026
- 15The Logistics of 91111 Apr 2026
- 16Why This River Doesn't Reach the Ocean22 Apr 2026
- 17How the Nuclear Football Works29 Apr 2026
- 18How Forensic Linguistics Works30 Apr 2026
- 19The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies12 May 2026
- 20Why They Built The World's Longest Rail Tunnel28 May 2026
- 21Russia's Weird, Bad Alternative Internet29 May 2026
- 22What's The World's Longest Domestic Flight?1 Jun 2026
- 23New Jersey's Big Fight with FIFA22 Jun 2026
- 24Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 201825 Jun 2026
- 25Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful26 Jun 2026
- 26The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person14 Jul 2026
- 27How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer Space24 Jul 2026
- 28The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be Real28 Jul 2026
- 29Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website5 Aug 2026
- 30United and American's Bitter Feud Over Chicago's Airport11 Aug 2026
- 31Why It's Illegal to Call a Drug "Stroebenazoline"21 Aug 2026
- 32The Weird, Scary Airspace Over Washington DC26 Aug 2026
- 33These Are HAI's Worst Mistakes of the Year31 Aug 2026
- 34This Is The Shortest Train in the United States11 Sep 2026
- 35Why Rolex Won't Sell You Their Most Expensive Watches23 Sep 2026
- 36Why They Dug the World's Biggest Hole30 Sep 2026