12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, September 18, 2024

The price of bear fur hats is out of control, innit
12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, September 18, 2024

What Are the Best-Reviewed State Parks in the U.S.?

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

People Keep Chucking Stuff at Moo Deng

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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.

Good News and Bad News for Liverwurst Fans

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

The First Water Filters That Can Actually Remove Microplastics

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

U.K. Taxpayers Have Spent Over a Million Quid on Those Big Dumb Hats the Guards Wear at Buckingham Palace

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

One Researcher Says the Secret to a Long Life Is Lying a Lot

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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 its 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.

This Guy Wants You to Have Sex in His Hot Air Balloon

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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?

Oreo-Ass Spider

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

And Then There Were Three

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

General Patton Found Death to Be a Real Bummer

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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.

David Bowie Thanked the Guy Who Punched Him in the Face

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Bowies 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. 

‘I Only Understand Train Station’

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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.

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