12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, October 27, 2024

If you want A.I. to analyze your shit, health start-up Throne wants to sell you an in-toilet camera that will let A.I. (that’s “trained by physicians”) take a gander at your dook.

Scientists tested the effects of alcohol consumption on a vast array of animals, and found that one bug, the “oriental hornet,” can hold its booze the best. They showed no behavioral changes or health side effects after consuming 80 percent ethanol for a full week.

A survey from a hair transplant company found that 44.25 percent of French men, 44.37 percent of Italian men and 45 percent of Spanish men are bald. Argentina, Malaysia and the Philippines have the lowest amount of bald dudes per capita.

After a man injured himself on a cactus inside of a school and needed medical attention, the mayor of Plettenberg banned the plants from schools, nurseries and the town hall.

A programmer and amateur mathematician spent $2 million of his own money and used 24 servers across 17 countries to calculate the largest known prime number. It’s notated as “M136279841,” and has over 41 million digits.

Humans have occupied the high-altitude, low-oxygen Tibetan Plateau for about 10,000 years, developing a resistance to hypoxia, a condition where the body struggles to get oxygen to all the right parts. One anthropologist has called it “a beautiful example of how and why our species has so much biological variation.”

A study showed that the human brain can recognize and understand a full sentence in 125 milliseconds, which is about how long it takes to blink.

A dog collar called Shazam claims that it reads your dog’s vitals, and uses A.I. to translate that data into sentences.

An agricultural researcher has dedicated his career to becoming a “fruit detective,” studying renaissance paintings to determine what produce thrived as far back as the 14th century.

Since 2010, Tokyo has hosted the Kagurazaka Bakeneko Festival, a parade for and of cats. It features real cats and people in cat costumes, as well as makeup artists and rental kimonos ($18 a pop) for any bystanders who are inspired to join in.

Sixty degrees should always feel like 60 degrees, but it hits different in the fall than in the spring. There’s a sound meteorological reason for that: The ground temperature is always a few weeks behind the weather, so 60 degrees in the early fall comes with a much warmer ground temperature than 60 degrees in the early spring.

Researchers have found that standing desks aren’t the cure-all for a sedentary office-based lifestyle. They have very little impact on heart health, and can increase the risk of clotting in your legs. They say that moving around regularly throughout the day is the best way to stay healthy. Unfortunately, that means those desk treadmill weirdos may be on to something.