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Half as Interesting

Season 2018 · Episode 19

Why One Road in the US Uses Metric (Because of Pirates)

0.05mMay 10, 2018

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

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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