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Half as Interesting

Season 2019 · Episode 36

The Tiny Building Where 285,000 Businesses are Based

0.05mSeptember 5, 2019

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Episode 1North Korea's Fake Town in the DMZ
Episode 2Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable
Episode 3The Completely Real American $100,000 Bill
Episode 4What's the Furthest You Could Travel Without a Passport?
Episode 5What Living in the World's Coldest Town is Like
Episode 6The US' Plan for a Hypothetical War with Britain
Episode 7The US Government's $350 Million Doomsday Plane
Episode 8Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany
Episode 9How a Missing Comma Cost a Company $5 Million
Episode 10How Kim Jong-un Travels
Episode 11What Is the Shortest-Lived Country in History?
Episode 12The 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown
Episode 13Why Every Map of China is Just Slightly Wrong
Episode 14The Secret Radio Stations Used to Communicate with Spies
Episode 15What's the Most Isolated City in the World?
Episode 16How Ireland Accidentally Legalized Drugs for Two Days
Episode 17Why Berlin's 15 Year-Old Airport has Never Had a Flight
Episode 18How an Australian Prime Minister Disappeared Without a Trace
Episode 19Why the World's Fastest Elevator Exists
Episode 20Why This Capital City Has a Population of Zero
Episode 21Why South Korea Will be Silent on November, 14, 2019
Episode 22The Law That Lets You Legally Steal Houses
Episode 23How a Manhole Cover Became the Fastest Manmade Object Ever
Episode 24How a Boeing 727 Was Stolen (And Never Found)
Episode 25The Secret Codes that Printers Put on Every Paper
Episode 26Why There's Only One American Cruise Ship
Episode 27How Australia Printed a Typo 46 Million Times
Episode 28The $14.3 Million World's Most Expensive License Plate
Episode 29The US Government's Airline for Prisoners
Episode 30Quarter as Interesting: The Topics That Weren't Good Enough
Episode 31The Island Invented to Scam a Rich Guy
Episode 32North Korea's Tiny, Terrible Airline
Episode 33Why There’s Less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada
Episode 34The US' Terrible Mistake of Selling $1 Coins for $1
Episode 35Every Mistake We've Ever Made (2 Fast 2 Spurious)
Episode 36The Tiny Building Where 285,000 Businesses are Based
Episode 37The Places Where Sneaking Over the US-Canada Border is Legal
Episode 38The $250,000 Unlimited Flight Pass: A Terrible Mistake
Episode 39The Global Restaurant Chain Run by North Korea
Episode 40The Cruise Ship That People Live On
Episode 41Why There's a Completely Russian Town in Norway
Episode 42Why This Parrot is in Witness Protection
Episode 43How Much is the US President Paid?
Episode 44How the Queen Travels
Episode 45The Tree That Owns Itself
Episode 46The Bit of East Germany That Might Still Exist
Episode 47Why North Dakota Wasn't Technically a State Until 2012
Episode 48Why the Dutch King Works as a Pilot for KLM
Episode 49The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC
Episode 50The US Government's Trillion Dollar Coin
Episode 51What's the Longest Possible Commercial Flight?
Episode 52Who Owns New Islands?
Episode 53The Time a Senator Spoke for 24-Hours Straight
Episode 54Why Saudi Arabia Imports Sand
Episode 55What's the Most Expensive Single Thing?
Episode 56The Nazi Weather Station in North America
Episode 57The Only Town in the US With a Population of One
Episode 58How to Celebrate New Year's Eve Six Times in One Night