12 Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, August 14, 2024

A five-year survey of 14,542 people found that people who had sex less than once a week were three times more likely to have died during that period. The sex-having data was self-reported, however, so maybe it just comes down to bragging rather than porking.

A judge has ruled that the walking worm farm and amateur pharmacologist will not appear on New York’s ballot in the upcoming election, because he lied about living in-state when he actually lives in California.

We tend to assume that “handedness” is mainly a people thing, but lots of animals tend to favor one hand over the other. Kangaroos have been found to be more “handed” than most primates, favoring their left hand for grooming and picking leaves.

A school worker was found to have stolen $1.5 million worth of chicken wings meant for school children. Over the past few years, 11,000 cases of wings were sent to Chicago schools, meant to be delivered to students studying remotely during the pandemic, but the suspect was intercepting them using a school district van.

Stores have been putting out Halloween decorations earlier the last few years, as classic summertime knickknacks have been declining in popularity. Michael’s released its Halloween collection in June, the earliest it’s ever done so, and Home Depot is on year two of its April “Halfway to Halloween” event.

Sea cucumbers have a symbiotic relationship with the pearlfish, an eel-like creature that likes to live inside sea cucumbers’ buttholes.

A study has found that a record 128,000 millionaires will change residences this year, more than any other year in human history. Countries like Switzerland, Italy and Spain are the big winners, as they’ve bravely lowered tax rates on the wealthy specifically to woo them.

Looking at 3.4 million pin numbers, researchers have found that the most common numbers are 7777, 0000 and 1234, while the least common are 7637, 9629 and 8068.

Four years of seismic readings have led scientists to deduce that there’s a vast ocean on Mars. The only problem is that it’s about 13 miles underground. Drilling a hole half a mile deep on Earth is already pretty tough, so it’s hard to imagine NASA Armageddon-ing Mars any time soon.

As of press time, the three fastest roller coaster we have are Cedar Point’s Top Thrill 2 (120 MPH), Six Flags Great Adventure’s Kingda Ka (128 MPH) and Ferrari World Abu Dhabi’s Formula Rossa (149 MPH).

A new study found that the overproduction of lipids in response to the flu, COVID and RSV may actually cause a more severe illness and even death.

The howler monkey is the loudest land animal, coming in at 140 decibels, about the same as a jet engine. The sperm whale has the howlers beat, though, coming in at 236 decibels in water, which equates to about 175 decibels in the air.