12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, December 22, 2024
From the galaxy brains behind “canned water” comes: leather diapers.
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The Golden Globes Are Giving Attendees $1 Million IOUs This Year
Celebrities in attendance can select up to $1 million worth of swag out of the “Ultimate Gift Book.” Gifts include everything from crazy-expensive skincare serums to a trip to see the Northern Lights in Finland.
The Jesus Lookalike Scene in Utah Is Out of Control
Residents of the extremely Mormon state have started a trend of hiring people to pretend to be Jesus for their Christmas cards and wedding announcements, and models are charging around $100 to $200 per hour.
LeBron James Has Played More Basketball Than Anyone in History
James just passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most minutes played in the NBA, clocking in at 57,471 minutes over 1,517 games.
NASA Has Discovered a Sleepy Old Black Hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a black hole that’s 400 million times the size of our sun, formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang and has consumed so much matter around it that it’s nearly dormant. Shhhhh, let the old guy sleep!
Grok Is Suffocating Memphis
Elon Musk built an A.I. data center in western Memphis, an area popular among technocrats for harvesting natural resources and dumping pollution, to train the next iteration of Grok. Residents and the city council were steamrolled, and are warning that it’s already stressing their power grid and accusing Musk of operating an illegal gas turbine that’s worsening air quality.
Carbon Dioxide-Eating Bacteria
Scientists have created a bacteria that consumes CO2 and poops it out into elements they can use as building blocks for more useful chemical products.
Americans Have an Extremely Tame Sexual Imagination
A sexual wellness company surveyed 2,000 Americans, and found that the places they most fantasize about having sex are in the ocean, in a pool, in a car, on the beach and in the shower.
Squirrels Are Starting to Eat Meat
For the first time, scientists have observed squirrels hunting and eating voles.
The O.G. iPod Was Made in 1924
The world’s first portable music player was the Mikiphone, a hand-cranked device invented by Hungarian brothers and mass produced (180,000 units) by a Swiss company in 1927.
The First-Ever Cover of a Beatles Song Came Out Before the Fellas Could Release Their Original Version
London artist Kenny Lynch got the band’s permission to cover “Misery,” and released his version on March 15, 1963. The album Please Please Me came out a week later.
Tiffany & Co. Shelled Out Big Time for the Most Expensive Piece of Titanic Memorabilia Ever
Three wealthy Titanic survivors chipped in to buy a Tiffany’s watch for Captain Arthur H. Rostron of the Carpathia for coming to their rescue after the disaster. The company just bought it back at auction for $1.97 million.
Liquid Death Is Selling Mosh Pit Diapers
The brilliant minds behind tallboys for water have invented the Pit Diaper, a studded and chained leather diaper to allow punks “relieve themselves in the safety of the mosh pit.” Any real punk already does that anyway.
