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Half as Interesting

Season 2021 · Episode 52

The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)

0.06mSeptember 7, 2021

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Episode 1What Happens When You Build a City With Zero Zoning Laws
Episode 2The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison
Episode 3Why a 61 Year Old German Was Almost Queen of England
Episode 4Why There's an American National Park in Canada
Episode 5Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
Episode 6Why Real Dictionaries Have Fake Words
Episode 7Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
Episode 8

Why the US Government Has a Secret Chicken Stockpile

Episode 9Japan's Massive Mistake of Building Two Incompatible Power Grids

Episode 10The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser

Episode 11The Conspiracy Theory that Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare

Episode 12Why the US Government Has 5,915 Secret, Classified Patents

Episode 13This is a Video About Bricks

Episode 14The Year Without a Summer Season

Episode 15Why Google Doesn't Want You to Say You "Googled Something"

Episode 16The US' Butter Size Border

Episode 17Why North Korea Has a Ski Resort

Episode 18The Hidden Grammar Rule English Speakers Don’t Know They Know

Episode 19How Pakistan Broke YouTube Globally for Two Hours

Episode 20Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels

Episode 21How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life

Episode 22Why There's a Unique Mosquito Species in the London Underground

Episode 23How the World's Newest Language Developed

Episode 24What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?

Episode 25How to Never Lose at Tic Tac Toe

Episode 26Why $2 Trillion Is Kept In Banks That Can't Give Interest

Episode 27How an 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections

Episode 28Why 90% of Asians are Lactose Intolerant

Episode 29Why This Piece of the Netherlands Was Temporarily Scotland

Episode 30How the World's Most Complicated Language Works

Episode 31What's the Deadliest Day of the Year?

Episode 32How the US' 100% Inescapable Prison Works

Episode 33The CIA’s Very Real Experiments into Psychic Powers

Episode 34Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US

Episode 35How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill

Episode 36Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second

Episode 37Why Alberta is the World's Only Rat-Free Place (With Humans)

Episode 38Why 7% of Montreal is Moving Today

Episode 39What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?

Episode 40The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You

Episode 41Why Women are Legally Banned From This Peninsula

Episode 42Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)

Episode 43Why the Stock Market Lost $1 Trillion for 36 Minutes

Episode 44The Math Problem With a $1 Million Prize for Solving

Episode 45How to Decode Credit Card Numbers

Episode 46The Tiny Boat With Its Own Postal Code

Episode 47Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases

Episode 48Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week

Episode 49Why Traffic Scientists Want You to Cut People Off

Episode 50Hooters' Very Real Airline

Episode 51Every Mistake We've Ever Made IV: A New Nope

Episode 52The Ocean is Getting Less Salty (And That's Bad)

Episode 53Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed

Episode 54The US Military's Real(ish) Zombie Apocalypse Plan

Episode 55How London's Tallest Tower was a State Secret

Episode 56How Michelin Inspectors Stay Secret

Episode 57Why Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is the World's Most Expensive City

Episode 58The Weirdly Big Problem of Being Declared Dead Accidentally

Episode 59Why Nobody Knows Who Owns 15% of England

Episode 60A Huge Mistake: Paying People to Use Clean Energy

Episode 61Why The US Government Values Your Life at $10,041,645

Episode 62Why the World's Largest Land Vehicle Exists

Episode 63Why Looking at the Sun Makes 1/4th of People Sneeze

Episode 64Why Nobody's Sure What the Northernmost Piece of Land Is

Episode 65The Weird Debate Over Whether There are 4 or 5 Oceans

Episode 66Why the World's Biggest Metro Only Runs 7 Days a Year

Episode 67Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records

Episode 68Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere

Episode 69Why there are Zero Bridges Over the Amazon

Episode 70Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year

Episode 71How Blink 182 violated the Geneva Conventions

Episode 72Why Terrible Movies Always Come Out In February

Episode 73Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo

Episode 74Bougainville: A New Country Coming in 2027

Episode 75How One Guy Bankrupted One Of England's Oldest Banks

Episode 76Why Planes Fly Over The North Pole But Not The South Pole

Episode 77Why Blackcurrant Flavor Doesn’t Exist in the US

Episode 78Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East

Episode 79Why Almost Every Town In America Has a Thai Restaurant

Episode 80The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding

Episode 81Who Officially Decides What Time It Is?