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Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea

Nov 10, 20206 min
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Season 2020 Episodes77

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E1

How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide

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Why North Korea's 30 Year-Old Hotel Never Opened

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The Secret Tunnel Under the White House

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The Guy Who Was (Maybe) President for One Day

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The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists

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The Highway Where Cars are Banned

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How Someone Stole a Plane Without Breaking Federal Law

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The CIA's 638 Attempts to Assassinate Castro

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Why it Was Legal to Mail Babies

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How Harry Potter Movies Technically Lost Money

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Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew in a Lawnchair

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The Airport Where Planes go to Die

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The Country That You Can Rent for $70,000 a Night

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How One Woman Scammed Her Way Into the 2018 Olympics

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The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970

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The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in World of Warcraft

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E20

How Scientology Got 5,000 Secret Agents in the Government

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How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases

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The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened

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United Airlines' Men-Only Flights

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A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight

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Who Owns the Rain?

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How Global Oil Prices Were Raised $1.50 by a Drunk Trader

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The $22 Million Party that Overthrew an Empire

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The Terrible Mistake of Choosing 'Null' as a License Plate

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The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired

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How Poland Accidentally Invaded the Czech Republic

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E42

The Mathematical Loophole that Broke the Lottery

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E44

Why Iceland's Airline Briefly Relocated to Scotland

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E45

Why (Almost) Nobody Lives in China's $161 Billion City

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The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet

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E47

How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy

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E48

The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing

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E49

Why Japan and Russia are Technically Still Fighting WWII

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E50

Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left

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E51

How a Cereal Box Toy Hacked AT&T's Phone Lines

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E52

Every Mistake We've Ever Made #3: Tokyo Grift

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The 639 Year Longest Song Ever

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The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845

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Why an NFL Team Secretly Moved Cities Overnight

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Why the US is Having a Shortage of Coins

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Why the US Military Has a 26-Page Brownie Recipe

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The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport

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E60

Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68

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E61

Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better

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The IRS' Plan to Collect Taxes After Doomsday

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E63

Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists

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Why the World's Sixth Ocean is Forming in Africa

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E65

Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal

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Why Nevada Created a County With No People, Buildings, or Roads

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E67

How Astronauts Vote from Space

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Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea

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E69

How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network

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E70

Why Bern is Not Actually the Capital of Switzerland

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E71

How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter

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E72

Why Living on the Left Side of a Timezone is Dangerous

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E73

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How the QWERTY Keyboard Broke the Chinese Language

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E77

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Sam Denby

Sam Denby

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Episode Summary

"Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea" is episode 68 of Half as Interesting season 2020. It aired on November 10, 2020.