12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, November 22, 2024
If you’re afraid of needles, we have some good news and bad news. The good news: Scientists have developed a viable alternative for drug injection! The bad news: You have to swallow a big lump of technology that was designed to mimic a squid expelling ink.
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The World’s Most Expensive Street
Fifth Avenue in New York City has been dethroned as the king of wildly expensive storefronts. Milan’s Via Monte Napoleone has taken the mantle, with one square foot of retail space going for $2,047 on average.
What Are the Fastest-Growing Jobs in America?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has put wind turbine service technician at the top of the list, with 60 percent expected job growth over the next decade. That’s followed by solar photovoltaic installer at 48 percent and nurse practitioner at 46 percent.
Google May Have to Sell Off Chrome
The Department of Justice has said that Google has a monopoly on search, and has asked a judge to force Google to sell its browser. But nothing means anything anymore, justice-wise, so we’ll believe it when we see it.
The Most Common Passwords (And How Fast They Can Be Cracked)
NordPass combed through a (publicly available) 2.5-terabyte database of people’s passwords, listed the 200 most common and, crucially, how long it would take to crack them. The top three are 12345678, 123456789 and at number one, 123456. All of which, unsurprisingly, would take less than one second to crack.
Your Real Friends Are in Here (Pats Belly)
A study of 2,000 people in a remote village has found that microbiomes are shaped by, and microbes are shared with, the people in your community and social networks.
How Much Credit Card Debt Do Americans Have?
Our collective credit-card debt has reached a record high at $1.17 trillion. Unfortunately, because delinquency rates have improved recently, the New York Fed has drawn a chilling conclusion: “rising debt burdens remain manageable.”
“The Wikipedia of Cells”
The Human Cell Atlas is a catalog of, as of press time, 62 million human cells from 18 biological networks. The scientists contributing to it aim to catalog a total of 37 trillion cells, from birth to old age.
Metal Detector Enthusiasts Were Looking for an Ancient Road, and Found a Pot of Gold Instead
A Polish father-son duo was out searching for evidence of an ancient road when they found a pile of historic coins buried in the middle of a forest. In total, they’re worth over $120,000.
The World’s Most Expensive Green Stone
Everyone talks about diamonds, but what’s the record price for a cool green rock? A 37-carat emerald just sold at auction for $9 million.
A Squid Pill Might Replace Hypodermic Needles
Scientists have developed a blueberry-sized device that’s taken orally and, inspired by squid ink, shoots drugs into the tissue of your digestive tract.
The Health Benefits of Getting Scared
Scientists studied blood samples from 113 people before and after going to a “high-intensity haunted house,” and found that 82 percent of those experiencing inflammation beforehand saw a marked decrease in inflammatory signal markers. Previous animal studies have found that acute stress can kick parts of the immune system into high gear.
The $6 Million Banana
A crypto dork paid $6.2 million for Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s absurdist art piece Comedian, which is a banana duct taped to a wall.
