12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Monday, September 16, 2024

Nissan France had a guy drive a be-bungied car off a 213-foot platform to break the Guinness World Record.

The accomplished businessman and whiskey distiller croaked out “One last drink, please” on his deathbed.

Twenty-five-year-old Ford employee Robert Williams was crushed by a mechanical arm in a Michigan plant when he went to inspect why it was working slowly. After killing him, the machine went back to work for 30 minutes (and presumably got a raise and a promotion).

If you ever want to say something is so-so in Chinese, you can just say “Mǎmǎhǔhǔ,” which means “horse horse, tiger tiger.” The story is that long ago, a not-so-great artist painted an animal that looked kind of like a horse, kind of like a tiger, a not great but not awful rendition of each in one weird little beast.

Tech dipshit Jared Isaacman became the first “civilian” to exit a space capsule and dance around in the black void of space. He’s a billionaire who bought his way onto a SpaceX mission, though, and frankly, billionaires shouldn’t be considered civilians.

Tech dipshit Adam Neumann raised $70 million for a company called Flowcarbon, which was supposed to offset global carbon emissions through the sale of its crypto called “Goddess Nature Token.” In a shocking twist, he never actually did anything, and has been quietly handing money back to the idiots who funded him.

OnlyFans creators netted a total of $5.3 billion in 2023. While many of them are inactive, there are over four million OnlyFans creator profiles on the platform, and Variety has calculated that split evenly, that’s $1,300 per profile.

Tech company LG Display showed up at Seoul Fashion Week with flexible screens that doubled as face shrouds, in a desperate attempt to drag us into a future of full-body wearable tech.

The National Security Agency, which used to pretend it didn’t even exist, and would be jokingly referred to as “No Such Agency,” just launched No Such Podcast to do deep dives on declassified files.

A nonprofit company run by Patagonia donated $1 million to help California farmers institute more sustainable, organic farming practices.

HasAnyone.com lets you ask whether a human has ever done or achieved any given feat, and it will generate a response and an explanation.

They kind of have to sound like garbage. Cockpits are extremely noisy, so the microphones the pilots use are designed to pick up only a very specific range of sound: “the kind of frequency range that people hear the best for letters, numbers, call signs and warnings.” If they picked up any more than that, we’d just hear a loud irritating rumble.