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Half as Interesting

Season 2020 · Episode 69

How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network

0.06mNovember 13, 2020

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Episode 1How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
Episode 2Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened
Episode 3The Secret Tunnel Under the White House
Episode 4The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day
Episode 5The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists
Episode 6The Highway Where Cars are Banned
Episode 7How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law
Episode 8The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro
Episode 9How a Grandma Broke All of Armenia's Internet
Episode 10Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies
Episode 11How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money
Episode 12Why Antarctica Has Its Own Accent
Episode 13Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair
Episode 14Zyzzyx Road: The Lowest-Grossing Film of All Time
Episode 15The Airport Where Planes go to Die
Episode 16The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night
Episode 17How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics
Episode 18The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
Episode 19The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft
Episode 20How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government
Episode 21How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
Episode 22The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
Episode 23United Airlines' Men-Only Flights
Episode 24The Road Owned Simultaneously by Spain and France
Episode 25A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
Episode 26Who Owns the Rain?
Episode 27How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader
Episode 28Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan
Episode 29Why This Coin is Illegal to Own
Episode 30The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire
Episode 31The 1,088 Passenger Busiest Flight Ever
Episode 32The Island That Keeps Appearing and Disappearing
Episode 33Why Canadian Lottery Winners Must Answer a Math Question
Episode 34Texas' Embassy in Washington DC
Episode 35The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate
Episode 36Why Japan Spent $600 Million Protecting Two Rocks
Episode 37The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
Episode 38The $300 Million Cable Between New York and Chicago
Episode 39Why Australia is Legally an American Corporation
Episode 40The Man Who Time Travelled 0.2 Seconds
Episode 41How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic
Episode 42The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery
Episode 43Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Episode 44Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland
Episode 45Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City
Episode 46The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet
Episode 47How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
Episode 48The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
Episode 49Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII
Episode 50Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
Episode 51How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines
Episode 52Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift
Episode 53How Belgium Has Gone 621 Days Without a Government
Episode 54The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
Episode 55The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
Episode 56Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight
Episode 57Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins
Episode 58Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe
Episode 59The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
Episode 60Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68
Episode 61Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
Episode 62The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday
Episode 63Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
Episode 64Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa
Episode 65Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
Episode 66Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads
Episode 67How Astronauts Vote from Space
Episode 68Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
Episode 69How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network
Episode 70Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland
Episode 71How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter
Episode 72Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous
Episode 73We Use AI to Write the Best HAI Video Ever (HAI #200)
Episode 74What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
Episode 75Why This Color Doesn't Actually Exist
Episode 76How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language
Episode 77Why Bananas Will Taste Different in a Few Years