12 Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The moon needs to enforce a "leave it better than you found it" policy.
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Moon Poop
Astronauts have had to leave some random stuff on the moon, including spare American flags, boots and their own feces.
Would You Get into Your Alma Mater Today?
A website has compiled admissions data for American colleges and universities over the past couple of decades, and lets you compare how competitive it’s gotten over the years.
Eight Universities Have a Monopoly on Olympic Swimming Talent
Michigan, Indiana, Stanford, USC, Cal, Georgia, Florida and UT-Austin have provided over half of the athletes who have ever been on the U.S. Olympic swim team.
Disneyland May Be Facing Its First Worker Walkout in Four Decades
Disneyland workers’ unions have officially okayed a 14,000-person walkout, as contract negotiations with the famously anti-union company have been getting more tense and less productive.
A Dumb Phone That’s Addicting in an Exciting New Way
Gen Z has begun eschewing smartphones in favor of the non-internet connected bricks of the aughts. The newest innovation in dumb technology is the Swype vape phone, a dumb phone that’s also a vape.
Buzz Aldrin Stomped Around in His Own Pee While He Was on the Moon
When he hopped down onto the moon, Aldrin’s urine collection device broke, causing all his pee to collect in his boot.
Southwest Airlines Was Exempt From the CrowdStrike Fiasco, But Its Beverage Carts Are Exploding Mid-flight
Around 20 Southwest flight attendants have been injured due to overheated soda cans exploding in storage.
A New Use for Old Styrofoam
Chemists have developed a process to transform trash styrofoam into conductive polymers that can be used in electronic devices.
Keanu Reeves Is a Sci-Fi Author Now
The Book of Elsewhere is a novel about an 80,000-year-old warrior who can’t die (but wishes he could), written with big-time sci-fi author China Miéville.
Only 1 Percent of Windows Users Were Affected by the CrowdStrike Outage
Despite being the largest IT outage in the history of humankind, the 8.5 million devices that got jacked up amounted to only 1 percent of Microsoft devices.
Team USA Almost Blew It in an Exhibition Game
The American men’s basketball team beat South Sudan, who were expected to lose by over 40 points, by a single point at the last second. Just shaking off the cobwebs!
People Won’t Quit Messing With Those Abandoned Towers in Downtown L.A.
The abandoned high rises near the Crypto.com Arena have gone viral over and over again: Graffiti artists tagged every floor and filmed it with drones, base jumpers leapt from its heights and one guy tightrope-walked across two of them. Now, some random, anonymous company just shelled out $500 million to try to develop them.