12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, January 15, 2025

There’s a lot going on in the interior corner of your eye — glands, gland protectors, all kinds of important stuff. Among them is the plica semilunaris, the vestigial remnants of what used to be an extra eyelid.

Military officers (59 percent), grade-school teachers (61 percent) and nurses (76 percent) are the most-trusted jobs in the country, while clergy and judges have taken the biggest hit over the last few years, barely hanging onto net trustworthiness.

The same Gallup poll has TV reporters (13 percent), members of Congress (8 percent) and lobbyists (4 percent) as the least trusted professions. I’d like to meet the guy who knows what a lobbyist is and thinks they can be trusted.

Greenhouse, a hiring platform, has found that 18 to 20 percent of all jobs posted online were “ghost jobs” that companies never intended to actually hire for. What’s the point? To make investors, competitors and clients think your business is growing.

The average tip has declined to 19.3 percent, the lowest amount in six years. Tipping was at an all-time high in 2021, when everyone valued service workers for perhaps the first time ever. But even that peak was a mere 19.9 percent.

Archaeologists have discovered a bunch of mummies in Egypt whose tongues were covered in gold sheets, a ritual thought to allow them to speak in the afterlife. They’ve found 13 so far, which sounds pretty ominous.

People who are furious that TikTok is about to be banned on “national security” grounds have rallied around RedNote, a similar app that’s also based in China, making it number one in the App Store.

Sidewalk knockoff dealers are one of the last professions Walmart hasn’t beaten into submission, but their assault begins now. They’re selling a working man’s version of the $10,000 Birkin bag for just $80.

Harbaugh caught a lot of flak for his love of milk, but as diagnosis of bowel cancer has skyrocketed in the last few decades, a new study has found that milk can actually help stave it off. Or specifically, the calcium in milk. A half-pint of milk per day can reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by 20 percent.

A NASA study found that about one-third of supermassive black holes are hidden from our view by layers of gas and dust.

The two companies developed an anti-counterfeit measure in the 1980s, when they worried their state-of-the-art printers could be used to illegally print money. A matrix of minuscule yellow dots is printed on every page that can be decoded to identify the time and the individual device. The Dutch police ruined the secret in 2004 when they bragged about breaking up a counterfeiting operation using the dots.

While remodeling the home, an Illinois man said he found a gift with his name on it from when he was six years old, that had somehow been lost behind the medicine cabinet. It was a set of Matchbox model airplanes.