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Half as Interesting

Season 2019 · Episode 54

Why Saudi Arabia Imports Sand

0.05mDecember 10, 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 8

Why 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