12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, March 28, 2025
You can spend your life savings on a pretty cool watch or a really cool Irish pub. Which is it?
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Everyone in the NBA Wears Arm Sleeves Because of One Good Game
In 2001, trainers outfitted Allen Iverson with a compression sleeve to temporarily delay a surgery he needed to address his bursitis. His first game with it on, he scored 51 points and got the Philadelphia 76ers into the NBA Finals, making it an instantly popular medical intervention and fashion statement.
At What Age Should You Get Married and Have Kids?
The correct answer is: whenever you feel like it. Also acceptable: don’t do it. But a Pew survey of 3,600 people has found conclusively that Americans are short-sighted idiots, because the most common answer was 26. Sure, you should decide to become a dad when when your frontal lobe is still in a deep slumber.
Mathematicians May Have Finally Cracked the Mystery of Random Numbers
Any program claiming to be a random number generator is either lying about a pre-set string of numbers, or is based off of external input like the temperature in a random spot. It’s remarkably hard to make a computer spit out truly random numbers, because randomness is kind of the opposite of computing. But JPMorgan claims to have achieved “genuine randomness” using a quantum computer.
If You Have a Couple Million Dollars Lying Around, You Can Buy an Alien’s Watch
A gold watch that belonged to the human race’s first alien, Neil Armstrong, is going up for auction, and is expected to fetch at least $2 million.
If You Have the Right Name, You Can Own a Pub on a Remote Irish Island
McLoughlin’s Bar on Achill Island has been family-run for 155 years, and the current owners are looking to sell — just to someone else named McLoughlin. “Seeing (our) name being lost to history would just break (our) heart(s). The name McLoughlin is woven into the very fabric of this pub,” they claim.
What Came First: Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms?
Gummy bears were first, having been created by German candy company Haribo in 1921 as a tribute to dancing bears that were popular in fairs and circuses at the time.
Gummy Worms Came 60 Years Later
A German competitor, Trolli, started out as a pasta company but eventually got into the candy game. In the 1980s, they were trying to combine two gummy flavors into one animal, and the worm was the only shape long enough to do it effectively.
A Psychotic Sales Bro Kept Tabs on His Coworker’s Verbal Mistakes for a Decade
Ford sales executive Mike O’Brien filled six big white boards with goofball corporate lingo mistakes he overheard, like “Let’s not reinvent the ocean” and “I don’t want to sound like a broken drum here.”
Aw Yeah, Freaky New Dino-Bird Just Dropped
Scientists have found evidence of a brand new dinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a type of herbivorous Therizinosaur with two tremendous claws on each arm that would allow it to brutally tear leaves off of trees.
How Many Bugs Are There in the World?
That’s extremely impossible to know, but science does think they have a good line on the number of bug species on the planet. A safe range is 2.6 million to 7.2 million, with many agreeing there are right around 5.5 million out there at the moment.
Science Just Found Out What Sharks Sound Like
It was generally assumed that sharks don’t make any sounds, as no one had heard them yell or bark or scream or whatever. But a scientist just made the first-ever recording of shark vocalization: a loud clicking.
An International Flight Had to Turn Around Because Someone Forgot Their Passport
A flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai had to turn around two hours into its journey because the pilot realized he didn’t have his passport. They had to get a new crew, and got to their destination six hours late.