12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Over a thousand QR codes appeared on gravestones in three different Munich cemeteries, pointing to web pages that displayed the names of the deceased. After much consternation, it was discovered that a local landscaping company had employed simple German efficiency to take care of the plots they’d been hired to manage: “We are a large company. Everything has to happen in an orderly manner.”

An assassin snuck into a Sri Lankan court posing as a lawyer, while an accomplice delivered a gun to him inside a hollowed-out book. The fake lawyer successfully murdered alleged gang leader Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne.

Lots of airlines have a highly selective “ultra-elite” status for only the most frequent of flyers. Perks can include getting delivered to your gate by a chauffeur, last-minute seating on fully booked flights and even a personal concierge with a dossier on your needs and habits.

Malinda Russell was a widowed single mother of a handicapped child who started her own pastry shop, and in 1866, she published A Domestic Cookbook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen. It was discovered by a culinary historian under a pile of other cookbooks about 20 years ago.

James Caban, brother of former NYC Police Commissioner Edward Caban, would stroll through the precinct pretending to be his brother, ordering cops to scuttle investigations of clubs owned by his friends.

Local hatcheries around America have reported skyrocketing sales of chickens and chicken supplies, but first-time chicken buyers don’t know how much time and upkeep it takes to keep a bird alive. It can cost thousands of dollars per year to produce the amount of eggs a family would want, compared to approximately $300 per year that it costs to buy them from the store.

A man in Arkansas shot a water tower with a painting of Johnny Cash on it, in just the right location that it made Cash appear to take a big ol’ pee on the town below. That’s extremely funny, but equally illegal and unsafe, and the town’s mayor threw the book at him.

A small group of thieves were behind a string of high-profile robberies, targeting celebrity athletes like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. They went to the trouble of hiding in nearby woods and mapping out security personnel movements, but were caught because the FBI found selfies with the merchandise on an iCloud account.

Footprints and tracks found in a fertile hotbed of fossils in New Mexico show that people were carrying heavy objects by dragging wheel-less wheelbarrows behind them as early as 22,000 years ago. Wheeled vehicles have only been around for about 5,000 years.

The word “null” is often used in coding to mean “invalid” or “no value,” so people with the last name Null often find themselves plagued with website crashes, lost customer service profiles and massive headaches with government paperwork.

Someone is auctioning a off Flamin’ Hot Cheeto that looks remarkably like Charizard, with the current high bid at over $6,000.

A Pikachu-shaped Cheeto sold for $26,000, and a Harambe-shaped Cheeto once sold for over $100,000.