# Half as Interesting: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-03, Half as Interesting has 2,950,000 subscribers, 820,455,675 total views, and 585 videos. It ranks #18,929 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Half as Interesting](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Half as Interesting is “How Planes Fly Without Air Traffic Control”, a long-form video published Oct 19, 2026.
- These are Half as Interesting’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Oct 31, 2025 and Oct 19, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 389,844. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website” (2,253,804 views, Aug 5, 2026). Least viewed: “The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution” (169,579 views, Mar 24, 2026).
- Median length: 7:49 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Half as Interesting’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 21 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 21, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [How Planes Fly Without Air Traffic Control](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/ju1OZStv2eI/) | 2026-10-19 | Long-form | 442,192 | 7:19 | 1.72x |
| [The Logistics of IMAX](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/auScRXZwHhk/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 519,661 | 8:50 | 0.95x |
| [The Logistics of NYC Waste Management](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/HjeesNAbWqM/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 412,571 | 6:55 | 0.68x |
| [What is the World's Biggest Hole Humans Have Ever Dug?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/x_SgL10cYgQ/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 625,566 | 6:43 | 0.96x |
| [Why Rolex Won’t Sell You Their Most Expensive Watches](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/ENkbkzeCYYM/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 1,690,831 | 7:52 | 2.7x |
| [This Is The Shortest Train in the United States](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/3VlnvsZ6kJE/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 772,087 | 8:13 | 1.3x |
| [These Are HAI’s Worst Mistakes of the Year](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/LX52DmpRO2M/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 587,183 | 7:45 | 1.32x |
| [The Weird, Scary Airspace Over Washington DC](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/89thRe3elQM/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 693,873 | 8:17 | 2.1x |
| [Why It’s Illegal to Call a Drug “Stroebenazoline”](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/lX_SnVQXC-A/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 895,150 | 8:40 | 3.16x |
| [United and American’s Bitter Feud Over Chicago’s Airport](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/aIozGy0v4RQ/) | 2026-08-11 | Long-form | 582,549 | 8:34 | 2.14x |
| [Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/7Tu8ZIbfLis/) | 2026-08-05 | Long-form | 2,253,804 | 9:38 | 8.93x |
| [The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be Real](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/eFmMyMLuWIY/) | 2026-07-28 | Long-form | 274,622 | 7:55 | 0.99x |
| [How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/2y7g56ggJiA/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 242,183 | 6:09 | 0.88x |
| [The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/gExsfWU76-Y/) | 2026-07-14 | Long-form | 302,927 | 7:24 | 1.09x |
| [Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/1imHQVVquyg/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 243,505 | 8:46 | 0.93x |
| [Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/OGjBA4kv89U/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 176,801 | 6:02 | 0.63x |
| [New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/mmBGAl1V_xc/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 374,447 | 8:51 | 1.32x |
| [What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/p0cLeC_2uVg/) | 2026-06-01 | Long-form | 278,719 | 7:15 | 1x |
| [Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/DVhEJ4Wwlf8/) | 2026-05-29 | Long-form | 276,800 | 7:58 | 0.88x |
| [Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/iJqXFUDB66k/) | 2026-05-28 | Long-form | 278,734 | 8:38 | 0.89x |
| [The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/WufGmAWN-7o/) | 2026-05-12 | Long-form | 370,973 | 8:10 | 1.03x |
| [How Forensic Linguistics Works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/umNgsvBnyVs/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 197,236 | 7:16 | 0.55x |
| [How the Nuclear Football Works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/4vHzFLtOJR4/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 248,856 | 6:39 | 0.65x |
| [Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/_0U0YWsuFpU/) | 2026-04-22 | Long-form | 224,391 | 7:58 | 0.58x |
| [The Logistics of 911](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/rGqCZG8H5v8/) | 2026-04-11 | Long-form | 494,506 | 6:51 | 1.16x |
| [The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/P8oc_UXgD2A/) | 2026-04-10 | Long-form | 450,033 | 8:02 | 1.1x |
| [Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/q9MhaEyS4UA/) | 2026-04-08 | Long-form | 351,695 | 6:38 | 0.86x |
| [The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/vmcSW1Flcq4/) | 2026-03-27 | Long-form | 365,270 | 7:27 | 0.92x |
| [The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/Cxx66orVd10/) | 2026-03-24 | Long-form | 169,579 | 5:29 | - |
| [Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/G8FNrKvfQBU/) | 2026-03-17 | Long-form | 397,711 | 7:48 | 0.86x |
| [The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/HUYsRN12Ols/) | 2026-03-02 | Long-form | 631,723 | 7:04 | 1.37x |
| [The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/tOgPYdKLXp8/) | 2026-02-27 | Long-form | 501,293 | 8:23 | 1.19x |
| [The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/5Elvi_r3ln8/) | 2026-02-25 | Long-form | 374,666 | 8:14 | 0.92x |
| [Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/kbF5gkmfI_I/) | 2026-02-10 | Long-form | 574,150 | 7:51 | 1.37x |
| [The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/tIBJFu3vQ0s/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 425,392 | 7:02 | 1.05x |
| [The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/zQSgaHt_p_A/) | 2026-01-30 | Long-form | 513,425 | 7:28 | 1.27x |
| [The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/as8s6QQcjp0/) | 2026-01-29 | Long-form | 308,302 | 7:47 | 0.79x |
| [This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/6iKftxOABc0/) | 2026-01-21 | Long-form | 325,642 | 7:47 | 0.83x |
| [How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/mL_OurMlkq0/) | 2026-01-14 | Long-form | 1,173,446 | 6:27 | 3.02x |
| [The Time the US Sent 813 Soldiers to Cut Down One Tree](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/829-RKKVk-w/) | 2025-12-31 | Long-form | 419,993 | 7:51 | 1.08x |
| [Why It Was Illegal to Sell All Your Raisins Until 2015](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/zMHem6wbK80/) | 2025-12-24 | Long-form | 391,089 | 8:26 | 1.06x |
| [How This Country Overestimated Their Population by 7 Million People](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/2IbaopjJHC8/) | 2025-12-22 | Long-form | 350,025 | 7:06 | 0.95x |
| [The US Military’s Fast Food Division](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/ScxnwUt_B68/) | 2025-12-15 | Long-form | 418,745 | 8:04 | 1.06x |
| [Why It’s So Hard To Know Where the Utility Pipes Are](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/hTzCP_nluFc/) | 2025-12-04 | Long-form | 388,599 | 7:57 | 0.98x |
| [How FEMA’s Doomsday Radio System Works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/cTaxMdzDpnQ/) | 2025-11-30 | Long-form | 585,043 | 7:32 | 1.41x |
| [The US Military’s Really Big, Really Controversial Radar System](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/jbQiWFA4FoE/) | 2025-11-18 | Long-form | 324,836 | 6:13 | 0.79x |
| [The Design of the World’s Most Secure Banknote](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/Hsv5fSJbYR8/) | 2025-11-11 | Long-form | 336,215 | 8:07 | 0.75x |
| [How Do They Choose the Spelling Bee Words?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@halfasinteresting/videos/b921J8IpDUA/) | 2025-10-31 | Long-form | 251,640 | 8:48 | 0.56x |

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