12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Monday, March 17, 2025

Seth Rogen says that, upon seeing Hill’s character play a PlayStation 2, Sony gave the note, “We can’t have him interact with our products as a character, because it’s too vile a character.”

An international flight had to pull a U-turn after 8 of the plane’s 12 bathrooms clogged. Flight staff found “polythene bags, rags and clothes that had been flushed down and stuck in the plumbing.”

A new machine that mimics burrowing worms’ peristaltic movement is under development, with the aim of bringing down the cost and risk factor of burying gas lines.

In 2006, Akira Haraguchi recited 100,000 digits of Pi in around 16 hours. His strategy was to associate each letter with a syllable, and use those to tell a series of epic stories.

Here’s how he explains his obsession with Pi: “All things in this world, including ourselves, are aggregate sums of atoms, which are made up of rotating electrons. The ultimate history of mankind is moving toward a happy ending for people of all races. The Earth, the galaxy, and the universe all rotate. In other words, I think rotation is the absolute truth. So as long as I’m thinking about pi, I think I can live a life according to truth.”

It’s kind of a toss up between koalas (who can sleep 18 to 22 hours per day) and fire ants (who have been observed having 253 “sleep episodes” per day).

Moving from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten meant the Oregon Ducks were just about as far as possible away from most of their competitors. The men’s basketball team has clocked 26,700 miles traveled already, and they’re just heading into March Madness.

The Bassett family was making mule-churned ice cream as far back as 1861, and they opened up Bassett’s Ice Cream in Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market in 1892.

The International Astronomical Union just recognized 128 previously undiscovered moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 274.

A Palo Alto realtor has listed a house claiming that “every owner’s children have gone on to Harvard or Stanford, paving the way for even greater achievements” and says it’s “ready to pass on its extraordinary energy to the next family.”

Based on metrics like Emotional and Physical Wellbeing, Income and Employment and Community and Environment, one study found that the happiest cities in the country are Irvine, San Jose and Fremont.

If everyone in the world peed into the Grand Canyon, it would take 800,000 years to come up with the 1.2 quadrillion gallons needed to fill it.