12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Because people keep getting gored by bison while attempting to take selfies with them, the tourism board of Jackson Hole, Wyoming has developed an app that analyzes the size of any bison in a given photo, and warns users when they’re too close.

After over a decade of existing in digital-only form, The Onion is making a triumphant return to the print industry.

Fallon is hosting a 10-room haunted house at 30 Rock called Jimmy Fallon’s Tonightmares.

The European Space Agency will enact the galaxy’s first double gravity boost for its JUICE mission, meaning it will use both the Earth’s gravity and Venus’ gravity to slingshot a ship out to see Jupiter’s moons.

A recent study has confirmed that men’s and women’s nervous systems detect and experience pain differently. The fact that up until three years ago, medical lab mice were exclusively male means that women’s experiences of pain have never been properly studied. And chemically, there have been no major advances in pain medicine since the days of opium and willow bark.

Scientists just discovered a never-before-witnessed new little structure floating around in the human bloodstream, and it’s not even microplastic. They’re little packages of RNA that exist outside of cells, and may act as a shortcut to diagnosing certain cancers.

The Portuguese man ‘o war doesn’t have a digestive system capable of creating fart bubbles, and frogs probably don’t have a sphincter tight enough to create a fart. Over in the mammal kingdom, bats and sloths have all the necessary equipment for a fart, but bats digest too fast while sloths digest too slowly to create a gaseous buildup.

Georgetown, Texas’ 100-home Wolf Ranch is nearly complete, and will be the world’s largest 3D-printed community when it’s done.

Since being featured in the summer blockbuster, “Bye Bye Bye” has re-entered the Billboard Hot 100, racked up nine million more views on YouTube and the band’s Spotify listener count has skyrocketed by 76 percent.

A 3,000-year-old body discovered in Japan had mysterious injuries that archaeologists have now decided are consistent with a brutal shark attack. Once those findings were published, researchers took another look at a 6,000-year-old Peruvian body with very similar injuries.

In two apparently unrelated incidents, Florida officials have found $1.6 million worth of cocaine that washed ashore after Hurricane Debby ripped through the state.

Using NASA’s data, three amateur astronomers have discovered a star-adjacent object flying at one million miles per hour. It’s a humongoid gas bubble, not quite a star, but also not quite a Jupiter-esque gas giant. It’s careening off toward the edge of the galaxy, and it’s expected to break out into intergalactic space.