12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, January 26, 2025

Researchers have figured out how to use a patient’s blood to grow “personalized mini-organs,” which they can use to test drugs and dosages for rare diseases.

Enter your weight and your beverage of choice, and this website will calculate your Daily Safe Maximum and the Lethal Dosage. For example, a 900-pound man can safely have 93 cans of Barq’s Root Beer per day, and would drop dead upon drinking his 2,792nd can.

A23a, the world’s largest iceberg at about 1,400 square miles, cracked off of an ice shelf in 1986 and has been floating around ever since. It recently took a pretty direct turn toward an Antarctic island, where it’s like to disrupt migration and hunting patterns of the local fauna. Somebody has to warn them!

This year’s winners include Snow Bueno, Chips & Que Snow, Blizzard of Oz and Clear-O-Pathra.

A very helpful map of alpaca density shows that Oregon has the top three most alpaca-rich counties in the United States: Jefferson, Deschutes and Clackamas. The data hasn’t been updated since 2022, however, so there’s a chance that Dixie County, Florida has cracked the top three by now.

Tom Green has three projects lined up on Prime Video: This Is the Tom Green Documentary, which came out on January 24th, then a stand-up special called Tom Green: I Got a Mule! and an unscripted show called Tom Green Country.

Researchers have pinpointed a mechanism in the digestion of gut bacteria that converts bile into sex hormones. If you ain’t fartin’, you ain’t fornicatin’.

Hitachi is an extremely conservative Japanese company, and the massive success of their Magic Wand has given them a decades-long headache. At least twice over the years, they broke ties with their U.S. distributors because the Magic Wand went pre-internet viral in the states and caused them embarrassment back home. Their current deal allows for U.S. company Vibratex to sell the Magic Wand without Hitachi branding.

Some billionaire-bootlicking numbnuts at a publication called GOBankingRates decided to compile and publish “the best pieces of financial advice offered up by the man known as the ‘Oracle of Omaha.’” What a loser. The list of crucial platitudes include “pay yourself first” and “invest in the S&P 500.” Whoa, thank you GOBankingRates, I can feel my net worth swelling like Popeye’s forearms after he slugs a can of wet leaves.

A Gallup poll found that a record-low 44 percent of Americans identify as “very satisfied” with their personal lives. That’s the lowest since they started this particular poll in 2001, when 55 percent of Americans said they were psyched to be alive.

JetBlue became the first major airline to accept PayPal as a way to purchase flights. They’re trying to angle themselves as the premier bachelor party currency, from the actual flight purchase to splitting a strip club bill with cleverly cryptic emojis.

An 84-year-old fended off a masked robber exactly half his age by whipping a pair of jeans at him while he was in a laundromat. He later said, “I’ve worked all my life for my money. He’s not having it.”