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Half as Interesting

Season 2018 · Episode 13

Why These Words are Illegal

0.05mMarch 29, 2018

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

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Episode 1Australia's 3488 Mile Long Fence
Episode 2Why Samoa Skipped December 30, 2011
Episode 3Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway
Episode 4The 809 Objects Left on the Moon
Episode 5Why Humans Have More Than Five Senses
Episode 6How This Pacific Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance
Episode 7What’s the Longest Train in the World?
Episode 8The Warehouses That (Sort Of) Aren't in Any Country
Episode 9Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents
Episode 10Why It's Illegal to be Named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
Episode 11How 29,000 Lost Rubber Ducks Helped Map the World's Oceans
Episode 12How Real Mind Control Works
Episode 13Why These Words are Illegal
Episode 14How to Make an Emoji
Episode 15The 3,713 Page Document That Makes or Breaks Economies
Episode 16Why Diplomats Can't be Arrested
Episode 17Why There Are Thousands of Giant Arrows Across the US
Episode 18The $289,500 New York Hot Dog Stand License
Episode 19Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)
Episode 20Why 11 Babies Have Been Born in Antarctica
Episode 21How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret
Episode 22Two Islands in Two Countries, Two Miles and 21 Hours Apart
Episode 23That Time When 3 Astronauts Went on Strike in Space
Episode 24How an Island Lost Its Fortune Making a Terrible Musical
Episode 25Why the World's Smallest Country Has a Railroad
Episode 26The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World
Episode 27The Italian Town That's Not in Italy (or the EU... kind of)
Episode 28Why Wifi is Illegal in Green Bank, West Virginia
Episode 29Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere
Episode 30The Somewhat Secret Subway System Under the US Capitol
Episode 31Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba
Episode 32The Country That Used to Exist Between the US and Canada
Episode 33The Time China Had a 12 Day Long Traffic Jam
Episode 34The Secretive Book That Names All the Cheaters in Vegas
Episode 35The Crazy Time When the US Delivered Mail by Missile
Episode 36Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made
Episode 37The Island That Switches Countries Every Six Months
Episode 38The Fake Neighborhoods on Google Maps
Episode 39Why Iceland Imports Ice
Episode 40The Baboon That Controlled a Railway for 9 Years
Episode 41Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth
Episode 42How A Massive Dam in China Slowed the Earth's Rotation
Episode 43Why It's Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons
Episode 44How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada
Episode 45How This Island Near Australia Was Undiscovered
Episode 46The Man Who Was Stuck in Paris Airport for 18 Years
Episode 47Why NASA Tried to Launch Big Bird to Space
Episode 48Why This Island Might be in Canada or Might be in the US
Episode 49The Secret Train Station Under New York City
Episode 50The 32-Hour Longest Commercial Flight in History
Episode 51What's the Shortest International Border in the World?
Episode 52Centralia: The Town That's Been on Fire Since 1962
Episode 53Why It’s (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors