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Half as Interesting

Season 2020 · Episode 76

How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language

0.07mDecember 22, 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
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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