12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Thursday, January 23, 2025

A device that mimics the multi-surface structure of a fly’s eye could help people who have trouble seeing by “filling in” the missing sections of their vision.

Researchers found that transplanting fibers from the soles of a patient’s feet to other areas of the body can help make skin more robust. This could be a crucial procedure for those with prosthetic limbs.

A federal judge ordered two lawyers who were making ridiculously pedantic requests to spite one another to have lunch together, citing “fiddle-faddle” on both sides. The plaintiff’s lawyer was ordered to pay for the meal while the defendant’s would pay the tip.

Houston cops are complaining that “drug-addicted rats” are getting into storage lockers and destroying evidence while foraging for narcotics.

Houston gets snow once every four years on average, so the city doesn’t invest a single dime in plows. To combat a six-inch accumulation (the most in 65 years), they’re going nuts spraying down roads with a briny slop in order to prevent ice.

A Japanese aquarium was closed for renovations, and the staff immediately noticed that their giant sunfish was acting weird. They tied a staff uniform to the outside of its tank, and it immediately perked up, so they added more fake people and gave them fake cardboard faces.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says his schedule is so packed, he’s had to cut back his smoking habit to a mere “several a day.”

Between 2015 and 2025, the average age of an NFL head coach dropped from 53.4 to 47.7, makin them the youngest group of coaches in any major American sport. It’s sometimes called the Sean McVay Effect, after the guy who was named head coach of the Rams in 2017 at the age of 30.

Oxfam warns that Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Bernard Arnault, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will likely break the $1 trillion mark in the next 10 years.

The world’s 2,770 billionaires saw a rate of growth three times greater than in 2023, and they now hold a combined $15 trillion in wealth.

Hoping to steal some momentum during TikTok’s legal turbulence, Meta is offering influencers $50,000 a month if they post exclusively on Reels.

In 1917, the Navy’s First Sea Lord and gossipy shrew John Arbuthnot Fisher wrote to Winston Churchill in one of his many complaints: “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis — O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)”