12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, October 11, 2024

The Detroit Tigers are in the midst of a Cinderella run for the World Series. The players on their postseason roster get paid a combined $18.4 million; meanwhile, there are 21 individual players on other playoff teams who make more than that. The team has spent years developing young talent instead of shelling out for big names, and it appears to be paying off.

A koala was seen on security footage studying the elevator at Sydney’s Casula Station, but it quickly opted to take the stairs into the station. It then led cops on a chase before hopping a fence and escaping.

The Irvine Police Department decked out a Cybertruck with decals and fancy cop lights, but since it’s such a piece of shit vehicle, they can’t use it for actual police work. Instead, they’re going to use it to drive to schools and impress children.

A staff member at the Lisser Art Museum threw out a couple of beer cans that were on top of a glass elevator, not realizing they were part of a “meticulously hand-painted” art piece from the 1980s called “All The Good Times We Spent Together.”

The Arthropleura lived 300 million years ago and could grow up to nine feet long. We’ve mostly just found fossils of their molted shells, which don’t include their heads. But scientists have now taken fossils of baby Arthropleura and projected what they looked like as adults, like a police sketch artist aging up a missing child.

After a pilot fell unconscious (and was later pronounced dead) on a flight from Nevada to California, a completely inexperienced passenger grabbed the wheel, and air traffic control gave her a crash course on flying and landing a twin-engine plane.

A study found that mice whose diets were restricted to fewer calories lived longer than those with higher calorie diets. So just eat pellets and drink out of a weird metal straw with a ball bearing at the end and you should be good.

There’s a hot new trend of people on social media leaving cash and gift cards in the packages of baby food and diapers, hoping to surprise struggling moms with a monetary boost (and just coincidentally making the gifter go viral). People are also posting videos of baby food and diaper packages that have been ripped open and left on the shelf by treasure hunters trying to intercept these donations.

According to a study of the website Archive of Our Own, which has over 13 million works of fanfiction, the most common fanfic relationships are Sherlock Holmes and Watson (63,000 stories), Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter (64,000 stories) and Supernatural’s Dean Winchester and Castiel (105,000 stories).

Burger King likes to put out spooky stuff during October, like the occasional Ghost Pepper Whopper, the dark green Nightmare King and a supernatural “ghost detector.” This year they’re teaming up with the Addams Family to offer a bunch of ordinary items with bullshit names (Thing’s Rings, Gomez’s Churro Fries, etc.), and exactly one cool thing: the Wednesday Whopper, made with special potatoes that make the bun a dark purple.

Back in 1985, the first domain name to be registered was Symbolics.com, which is currently the page of a domain broker. It was followed by BBN.com, a tech research firm, and Think.com, which is currently inactive. HP and Xerox also made it into the top 10.

Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Contest, which asks internet users to choose their favorite fat bear, has announced a winner. Chunk murdered Grazer’s cub over the summer, but Grazer beat Chunk in the contest by 40,000 votes.