12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, September 18, 2024

TripAdvisor data has found that Shore Acres (Oregon), Kachemak Bay (Alaska) and Humboldt Redwoods (California) have the highest ratings.

Zookeepers have had to limit the availability of internet sensation Moo Deng because visitors keep throwing water (and other objects) at her in her enclosure.

Boar’s Head tracked the recent listeria outbreak that has killed nine people to bad liverwurst in a meat factory in Jarratt, Virginia, which they’re shutting down indefinitely. The good news is, your meat should be safe to eat again. The bad news is, Boar’s Head is ceasing all liverwurst operations across the board. 

Some water filters actually add microplastics to the water they’re exposed to, but researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a tiny fabric that filters both microplastics and lead particles.

The bear fur hats that those stoic weirdos wear when they’re stomping around the palace cost about $2,682 per hat in 2023. That’s a 30 percent increase in just one year. They’ve spent over £1 million on these hats in just the last decade.

Researcher Saul Newman published a paper that says a substantial amount of people who, on paper, are supercentenarians, are actually just dead and their families are collecting their pensions. Furthermore, he says it’s not a coincidence that “blue zones,” where people statistically live longer, tend to be in places where public records (like birth certificates) were lost in World War II bombing raids.

Temecula, California-based small business owner Denni Barrett says you can have sex next to him way up in the air: “What happens in the basket stays in the basket.” That assertion is contradicted, though, by his story about how a drone operator sent him a picture of two of his clients doin’ it doggy style and asking, “What was going on there?”

The backend of the reclusive trapdoor ravine spider looks startlingly like an Oreo from some angles.

Tito Jackson recently passed away, meaning there are only three remaining members of the Jackson 5: Marlon, Jackie and Jermaine.

Far from going out in a blaze of glory on the battlefield, he died after a car accident on the way to a fun little hunting vacation. He was paralyzed from the neck down, and laid uncomfortably in a hospital bed for 12 days before finally saying, “This is a hell of a way to die.”

Bowie’s lifelong friend George Underwood once punched him in the face over a girl when they were teens. The pupil damage that resulted is the reason his eyes are slightly different colors. 

“Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof” is a German idiom that essentially means: none of this makes sense to me. It’s speculated that it refers to tourists who have only learned the German words for “train station.”