12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Maybe! Over half of American states consider horses a type of vehicle, making its operation while under the influence illegal.

Deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin A and calcium each unite around 40 to 50 percent of Americans. But vitamin D deficiency dwarfs them all, clocking in at a whopping 96 percent of the population.

The famously family-friendly restaurant chain began as a joint to pick up ladies on New York’s Upper East Side in 1965. 

Time Magazine announced its favorite inventions of the year, including “A Robot for Lash Extensions,” “An A.I.-Powered Toilet Seat” and a device for “Keeping Meat Moist.”

Eighteen-year-old, 7-foot-9 Olivier Rioux is a Canadian-born basketball player who’s in his freshman season on the Florida Gators men’s basketball team.

New Yorker Mike Matthews created the Grandma Stand in 2013, where he’d have his wise and charismatic grandmother set up shop in a mobile booth to provide insight and advice to Upper West Siders who needed it. 

Sadly, his grandmother passed away in 2018, but the project has recently been revived, with three IRL and three remote grandmas popping up around the city to share their wisdom.

Chemists broke a core organic chemistry rule by creating a double carbon bond in a location that had been thought for over a century to be impossible. This may open doors to creating new drug compounds.

An orca at SeaWorld San Antonio (who, statistically speaking, is probably a descendent of the famous terror Tilikum), pooped forcefully in its tank, took a lap to gain momentum and then splashed the poo water onto the nearby crowd.

The Pando tree in Utah is a huge colony of aspens that are all technically the same organism, making it the largest known living thing on Earth. A genetic analysis has shown that it may be up to 80,000 years old, which would make it also the oldest living thing.

A study of 45,000 U.S. elections found that seven in 10 positions have only one candidate running. It varies from state to state, with 22 percent of New Hampshire elections featuring just one candidate, all the way up to 90 percent of Alabama’s.

The howler monkey can howl at 140 decibels, the blue whale can wail at up to 188 decibels and the tiger pistol shrimp can snap its claw at 200 decibels.

The short answer is: No, it’s a passive function. The longer answer is: It could, hypothetically, depending on what you eat.