12 Trivia Tidbits for Friday, April 12, 2024
Let us be perfectly clear: We are pro-daring train heist that rips off major corporations and distributes cheap beer across the country.
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A News Station Aired a Guy’s Balls Instead of the Eclipse
A news program in Mexico was airing user-submitted footage of the eclipse, and someone snuck a picture of (presumably) their own balls into the collage.
Outer Space Is a Collage of Stenches
Famously, there’s a whole lot of outer space that we haven’t yet explored, but we know from experience or just scientific conjecture how some of it smells. Astronauts have reported the space in and around the ISS as smelling like welding fumes or burnt meat, and the surface of the moon smelling like gunpowder. Based on molecular make-up, scientists have reasoned that Jupiter and Uranus smell like ammonia, and there’s a distant nebula that likely smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
The Bi-Coastal Beer Bandits Who Pulled Off Multiple Train Heists
Eight men have been charged in a series of train heists between 2022 and 2024 that targeted beer deliveries in California. They then transported their hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of spoils to the Bronx for resale.
$2 Isn’t Always Worth $2
American two-dollar bills are technically always in print, except for a 10-year hiatus in the 1960s and 1970s. Nevertheless, they’re definitely on the rarer side, and some of them can be an absolute goldmine. Collectors will pay over $4,000 for some of them, and one printed in 1928 sold at auction for $88,000.
The Hot New Wall Street-Backed Green Initiative: Sheep Eating Grass
“Solar grazing” is the practice of letting herds of sheep chomp the grass around your solar farm to keep the panels clear of leaves, rather than unleashing lawn mowing and landscaping equipment on the scene. Wall Street firms that are heavily invested in solar energy are paying farmers to employ sheep, and solar grazing has multiplied tenfold in two years.
AMC’s CCO Finds Nothing Fuckable About the Dune Popcorn Bucket
Chief Content Officer Elizabeth Frank said you all should be ashamed of yourselves for getting horny over the branded, family-size fleshlight she mass produced: “We continue to learn and evolve. We would have never imagined the Dune thing. We would have never created it knowing it would be celebrated or mocked.”
French Spies Have a Natural Defense Mechanism: Rampant Infidelity
A French spy agency has said that its spies are immune from honeypot traps, where an affair can be used to gain leverage and potentially convert an asset to a double-agent, because their spouses “already know they’re having affairs.”
PetSmart’s Market Research Inspired Them to Do a Tattoo Cover-Up Sweepstakes
A recent study shows that a lot of pet people are also tattoo people. Specifically, 49 percent of respondents either have or know someone who has a tattoo they regret. So PetSmart drummed up a sweepstakes where the winner will get a free tattoo of their pet to cover up their past mistake. Alternately, if you already have a tattoo of your pet that you love, you can send them a picture and they’ll hook you up with access to their new rewards program.
Italians Are Getting Big Mad at a Potato Chip Ad
A new commercial by Amica Chips shows nuns taking potato chips as communion which, if you can believe it, religious types didn’t find humorous.
$6,000 Tickets, $1.50 Sandwiches
Tickets to the Masters golf tournament retailed for $140, but are going for over $6,000 resale. Despite catering to the extremely wealthy, the event makes headlines every year because they keep their concession prices nostalgia-inducingly low: $1.50 for an egg salad sandwich, $3 for a chicken salad sandwich and $6 for a beer. It’s basically a loss leader for some guaranteed feel-good headlines.
A Guy Was Fired From a Museum for Hanging His Own Art
An employee at Germany’s Pinakothek der Moderne, a modern art museum, put his own 2-foot by 4-foot painting on display. The museum won’t say how long it was up, but have confirmed that they fired the dude.
A Dog Was Too Pure to Be a Cop, So He Became an Earthquake Hero Instead
Roger, an 8-year-old lab retriever, played a crucial role in rescue and body retrieval operations after Taiwan’s recent earthquake. He had previously failed out of drug-sniffing-dog school because he’s not a fucking narc.
