12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, December 15, 2024
Your iPhone’s passcode is probably more complex than the passcode to America’s nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
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The States That Spend the Most on Penis Enhancement
According to a study, the states where the be-penised spend the most on P shots (an injection of a botox/plasma cocktail) are Virginia (where the procedure costs $1,699 on average), Ohio ($1,709) and Arizona ($1,790). Texas has the best deal — you can get it for as low as $499.
Who Was Searching What on Pornhub This Year?
Pornhub just dropped its 2024 Year in Review, revealing that “pinay,” “milf” and “hentai” were the most-searched terms of the year. They also break down top searches by state: Wisconsin was really into “pee,” California was into “friends mom,” and most depraved of all, Pennsylvania was into simply “naked women.”
How Many Distinct Colors Are Available in Hex Code?
Hexadecimal codes are the six-digit numbers that tell your web browser what color to display. A hex code is made of up three groups of two numbers that represent the color’s red, green and blue content. There are 16,777,216 possible combinations, each of which is scrollable or searchable on the site EveryHex.Codes.
The Christmas Gifts Everyone Hates
Accord to a survey, flowers and plants are the gifts people hate the most, with 42 percent of respondents saying they’d prefer to return them. That’s followed by beauty products (40 percent), liquor (34 percent) and pet products (or even straight-up living pets, at 30 percent).
Colgate University Is Obsessed With the Number 13
Tradition has it that the school was founded by 13 dudes with 13 dollars and 13 prayers. Their Tredecim Senior Honor Society is made up of 13 men and 13 women. They also enforce a 13 mile-per-hour speed limit on campus.
All DNA Is ‘Right-Handed,’ and No One Knows Why
The molecules that are crucial to creating and sustaining life mirror each other in structure, with DNA being “right-handed” and proteins being made up of “left-handed” amino acids. The opposite versions, known as “mirror” elements, exist very sparsely in nature, but they don’t really do anything.
Synthetic ‘Mirror Cells’ Are Both Awesome and Awful
Scientists have recently succeeded in creating right-handed “mirror proteins,” which could be used in fighting our worst scourges, like HIV and Alzheimer’s. But a group of prominent scientists have warned that we should halt this research before it goes too far, constructing entire mirror cells could create a mirror pathogen that our bodies would have no natural (or synthetic) defense against.
Character.AI Is Getting Walloped With Embarrassing Lawsuits for Devastating Malfeasance
A Florida mother has sued the company after a Daenerys Targaryen chatbot evidently encouraged her 14-year-old son to commit suicide, the parents of a 17-year-old are suing because a chatbot encouraged their son to kill his parents over household screentime rules, and most recently, the parents of an 11-year-old sued because a chatbot had been delivering her “hypersexualized” content for two years.
How Often Does a Star Nuke Its Solar System?
Superflares are when a star blasts off trillions of hydrogen bombs’ worth of radiation in a single belch. Scientists previously thought this happened once every 10,000 or possibly 1,000 years, but new research shows it’s more like a once-per-century event.
The Passcode to America’s Nuclear Arsenal During the Cold War Was Impressively Stupid
Believing the need to launch the nukes quickly superseded the need to be secretive, Strategic Air Command programmed the “secret unlock code” to 00000000.
Google’s Most-Searched Destinations of 2024
The trendiest overall destinations were Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C. and the Gili Islands. Folks looking for honeymoon spots searched Madeira, Portugal, the Big Island, Hawaii and Jackson Hole, Wyoming most often. Babymooners were obsessed with Maui, Hawaii, Ojai, California and Key West, Florida.
The States With the Most and Least Holiday Spirit, According to Google
Based on searches for terms like “Christmas carols” and “holiday recipes,” Google data shows that South Dakota, Wyoming and Alaska have the least holiday spirit, while Virginia, Massachusetts and Utah take the top spots.