12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Thursday, March 13, 2025
Cutting down a rainforest to prepare for a climate summit is the most American thing that’s ever happened. Sadly, it happened in Brazil.
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A Furniture Brand Wants to Make Sure All Its Products Can Rot
High-end plastic furniture brand Heller is adding an enzyme to its mega-expensive furniture so that it will eventually be consumed by bacteria instead of taking up space in landfills for eternity.
Apes Have Make-Up Sex
A study has found that chimpanzees and bonobos will engage in genital touching and other sexual behavior as a way to ease social tension and resolve disputes.
Daylight Saving Time Starts at 2 A.M. Because of a 1918 Train Schedule
When the U.S. implemented the barbaric practice in 1918, they needed it to start at a time that wouldn’t disrupt train schedules. There were no trains scheduled to depart New York City at 2 a.m. on a Sunday, so that’s when our long national nightmare started.
Brazil Cut Down a Rainforest So People Could Attend a Climate Summit
They chopped down a large swath of trees to build a four-lane highway to the city of Belém, where the COP30 climate summit will be held.
There Are Only Seven Countries That Meet the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Standards
Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Estonia and Iceland are the only ones that make the cut. Only 17 percent of cities in the world meet the threshold of five micrograms of pollutants per cubic meter, but that’s up from nine percent in 2023.
Go to Costco for a Great Deal on Gold and Diamonds
Costco can count on hundreds of dollars per year from your mom, but it’s trying to get into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy too, offering items like gold bars, 10-carat diamonds and Rolex watches.
The Best of the Worst Processed Foods
The Washington Post has tested dozens of highly processed snack foods. If you have to eat things like chips, cookies and jerky, they’ve identified the least bad options (respectively, Thrive Market Grain-Free Sea Salt Tortilla Chips, Urban Remedy Superfood Cookies Chocolate Chip and Jerky’s Gourmet Smokehouse BBQ).
Dinosaurs Don’t Need Vets (Yet), But There Is a Hyper-Specific Anatomy-Related Dino Job
Ry Williams, who poses gigantic dinosaur fossils in museums, has dubbed himself a “dinosaur erection specialist.”
Tennessee Hologram Doctors
The technology that puts dead performers on stage has been used to project oncology doctors into remote areas of the American South. West Cancer Center & Research Institute is based outside of Memphis, and beams its 61 doctors to nearly 20,000 patients per year.
The Awful Entrepreneur Who Tried to Recreate the Teddy Bear
In 1909, six years after the teddy bear took the country by storm, someone tried to market “Billy Possum,” which was inspired by President William Howard Taft. Kids thought it looked too much like a rat, according to one toy importer: “The kids won’t stand for ’em. And we spent thousands of dollars on the chance that they would be a hit.”
An Aquarium’s Prized Shark Turned Out to Be a Robot
After being closed for renovations for five years, China’s Xiaomeisha Sea World reopened to much fanfare, featuring a much-hyped whale shark. When people realized it was a robot, the aquarium explained that it’s illegal to trade whale sharks, and that it spent millions of yuan to delight visitors with its electronic mimic.
The Most Concerts by a Vegetable Orchestra
A vegetable orchestra, called The Vegetable Orchestra, has set a Guinness World Record by playing 344 concerts using instruments carved out of vegetables.