12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Prosthetic penis company Emisil dug into some search data and found that the most-Googled sex-related terms over the past year were “Does sex hurt?” (153 million searches), “Is sex good for you?” (265 million searches) and “Why do people have sex?” (270 million). Surely Google’s bullshit A.I. provided users with accurate and high quality answers.

After learning that he’d been sold a fake ticket by a scammer, a guy flew into a rage and wrecked the counter with a hammer they just had lying around.

Google search data shows that the pests people are asking most often how to kill are flies, fleas and ants, while the flora they most want to rid themselves of are weeds, mold and grass.

Wolfie went out with an artsy, mysterious flair: “The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this Earth.”

A study of 7.5 million two-vehicle crashes found that an accident with an SUV is 66 percent more likely to cause a death than an accident with a compact car. Good thing there’s an absolutely horrific number of them on the road — 79 percent of new car sales in the U.S. last year were SUVs and trucks.

A survey of parents in the U.S., U.K. and Australia found that half of children are capable of “pretending” (aka lying) by 12 months, and that some even show this capacity at just four months.

One year after a guy was seen on camera (but not yet caught) carving his girlfriend’s name on the Colosseum, another guy was apprehended after carving the letters “ALI” into a stone wall in Pompeii. He’s on the hook for whatever it costs to restore the property.

There are just two 1975 dimes that misspell San Francisco with an extra “s.” One of them was inherited by three farmer’s daughters 40 years ago, and has been sitting in a bank vault. The first one sold for $465,000, and this one is expected to fetch half a million.

A YouGov survey has found that consumers consider 71 percent of brands partisan. Republicans are loyal to Ford, Cracker Barrel, Pillsbury and A&W, for example.

On the other end of the spectrum, Democrats prefer Subaru, California Pizza Kitchen, Ben & Jerry’s and LaCroix.

If capitalism can solve the partisan divide, it’ll do it through brands like KFC, Buffalo Wild Wings, La Quinta and Mike’s Hard Lemonade.

The viral #templerunchallenge has people running recklessly through UNESCO World Heritage Sites, particularly Cambodia’s Angkor Wat.