12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Thursday, April 10, 2025

A survey found that the average cost of a Gen Z breakup is $3,862. That includes costs like $90 for a girls night, $2,000 for a vacation and $130 per date when you get back out there.

A 36-year-old patient received the country’s first successful uterus transplant in 2023, and just gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

A study of 450 people in 13 countries found that women’s hearing is six kilohertz better than men’s — or that men are six kilohertz better at pretending they didn’t hear you.

A survey of 1,000 American adults found that on average, we’re hoarding 1,000 or more emails, and 31 percent of us have paid to upgrade storage to put off dealing with digital clutter.

Statistically speaking, there’s never been a better time to be bad at taxes. Between 2010 and 2023, the personal income tax audit rate fell from 1 percent to 0.36 percent (the first time it ever fell below .5 percent). The IRS has cut 20 percent of its staff since 2010, and DOGE is threatening to cut 18,000 more IRS jobs.

Get that notion right out of your fluoride-starved libertarian brain, idiot. Money collected from audits has already plunged from $11 billion in 2010 to $4.5 billion in 2019, and these new proposed cuts would cost us another $6.8 billion in the first year alone.

A study of metrics like internet cost, cybersecurity, work environment and living environment found that Maryland, Utah and Delaware are the GOATs of WFH.

Foreign countries have been attempting to infiltrate U.S. jobs both by fine-tuning A.I.-generated resumes, and brute-forcing a ton of applications. By 2028, a quarter of all American job applicants will be foreign A.I. spies, and there are already 300 companies confirmed to have accidentally hired North Korean agents. One cybersecurity firm said, “Every time we list a job posting, we get 100 North Korean spies applying to it.”

A review of 280,000 health records found that older folks who received a shingles vax were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years.

A YouGov survey found that the most popular places to cry are at home (89 percent), at a funeral (75 percent) and in a car (62 percent). We’re not shedding tears on public transportation (nine percent) or at sporting events (five percent).

Demand for energy went up four percent in 2024, due to stupid things like heat waves and A.I. data centers. But renewable energy is stepping up to the plate, accounting for a record-breaking 32 percent of all global electricity. 

Children in the town of Kawara made playing cards featuring some of the middle-aged men in their local community, complete with stats and special abilities.They’ve been collecting and trading the cards, and some of the dudes have started autographing them.