12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, February 2, 2025

Oh, so now it’s a crime to bombard my partner’s ex with videos of me blasting air biscuits?
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Now You — Yes, You! — Can See Tom Hanks’ Typewriters

Hanks is notoriously a freak for typewriters, maintaining an extensive collection for decades. He’s got them on display in Sag Harbor, New York for the next couple of months.
Instead of Letting Employees Ask Questions of Leadership, Meta Will Allow Them to Vote on Pre-Written Questions With Pre-Written Answers

Zuckerberg said “Everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?” during an internal meeting, before opening up the room to “questions” — to combat the leaks, instead of town hall-style grilling from employees, the new company policy will be to vote on pre-approved questions that Zuck will then answer with PR-approved responses.
Solving a 76-Million-Year-Old Murder

Scientists found the fossil of a baby pterosaur with a puncture wound on its neck. They were too late to resuscitate the animal, but they’re confident they’ve deduced the cause of death: mangled by a crocodile.
The U.K.’s First-Ever Cyber Farting Legal Case

A 25-year-old British woman may face jail time after being arrested for sending her boyfriend’s ex a ton of videos of her farting.
You’re More Likely Than Ever to Be Hospitalized for Putting Something up Your Butt

About 4,000 people per year are hospitalized with stuff stuck in their rectum. Think it couldn’t happen to you? The amount of people requiring medical treatment rose from 1.2 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 1.9 per 100,000 in 2021. Statistically speaking, it’s only a matter of time.
Removing Your Colon Is a Surprisingly Well-Reviewed Procedure

The circumstances that necessitate a colectomy are often tragic and painful, but a study found that 84 percent of respondents who’d had one were much happier after getting the pesky thing removed.
Things Are Looking Up: It’s Never Been More Likely That We’ll Get Hit by an Asteroid

There’s a 1.3 percent chance that the asteroid 2024 YR4 will clunk right into us in under a decade. That’s a 3 out of 10 on the Torino Scale, which sounds small, but it’s the second-highest rating there’s ever been. It wouldn’t necessarily be a planet killer, but it would certainly pancake an entire city.
The Original ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ Lyrics Sold for Half a Million Dollars

Three drafts of the song, all typed and annotated by Bob Dylan, sold at auction for $508,000. A whole mess of Dylan memorabilia sold for $1.5 million total.
Chimeras Are Legal in Japan

Japan approved human-animal hybrid experimentation in 2019, allowing for ethically dubious research that could pave the way for human organ farms.
Tiddlywinks Was Invented by Unathletic (But Motivated) College Slackers

In 1955, three Cambridge University students were determined to achieve the school’s highest athletic honor, “the blue,” but knew they were “hopeless as athletes.” So they dressed up an old Victorian parlour game by writing a rulebook, a scientific thesis and an anthem to legitimize it. They were ultimately successful in getting their club recognized and achieving a rare “quarter blue.”
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore Are Doing the Space Equivalent of Touching Grass

The two NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space since June got a little reprieve from cabin fever, making their first space walk this week.
A Drug That May Bully HIV Out of Your Body Entirely.

HIV treatments are great at keeping the HIV virus dormant, but researchers have found that the compound EBC-46 may actually wake them up and straight-up murder them, in a process called “kick and kill.” The drug is already approved by the FDA as a cancer treatment.