12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, February 28, 2025
The worst people on the planet are in charge, and the dumbest people at your job are cheering them on. You might as well have a little fun with it --- steal an expensive toilet or glue some cocaine under your toupee.
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A Guy Was Caught Smuggling Cocaine Under His Toupee
A 40-year-old tried to sneak 220 grams of cocaine out of Colombia by sealing them inside of a "narco wig," but authorities caught him and skinned his false scalp.
Good Luck With That, Man: Fyre Festival 2 Is a Go
Billy McFarland, the mastermind behind the spectacular 2017 failure, is out of jail and just put up tickets for Fyre Festival Mexico. Tickets range from $1,400 to over $1 million. McFarland says "I'm sure many people think I'm crazy for doing this again, but I feel I'd be crazy not to do it again."
A Trio of Thieves Stole and Resold a Golden Toilet
An art piece appropriately titled "America" --- a golden toilet worth $6 million --- has been in the UK's Blenheim Palace since 2019. Three dudes are currently on trial for stealing and dismantling the crapper and selling the gold.
The Companies Who Profit Off of Your Data Think It Might Be Safest To Store It on the Moon
A company called Lonestar Data Holdings sent a tiny data center to the moon as a preliminary test to see if it's worth corporations' time and effort to let your personal data ride out World War III up there.
A Guy Achieved the World’s Largest Brick Collection Without Even Trying
A Tulsa, Oklahoma man has been collecting cool bricks for over 40 years. His daughter arranged for family and friends to count his bricks while he was out of town, then contacted Guinness to report the 8,882-brick collection.
Modern Wild West Train Robbers Are Pulling Off Nike Heists
Robbers who attack trains in the remote deserts of the American West are targeting products like electronics and high-end shoes. About $2 million worth of Nikes alone were stolen last year.
A Couple Had To Sit Next to a Dead Body for the Last Four Hours of Their Flight
A passenger tragically passed away in the middle of a flight from Australia to Qatar. Flight attendants then asked a passenger to move over and strapped the body into his aisle seat, locking two people in that row. The surviving passengers had to sit there after landing while medical professionals addressed the body.
The First Measles Death in America in 10 Years (Is No Big Deal, According to the Government)
As the West Texas measles outbreak spreads, the first victim has been reported dead. That hasn't happened since 2015. But RFK Jr., the head of Health and Human Services and a vaccine skeptic who mummified himself with intravenous drugs and venereal diseases, assured the public that "it’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year."
Checking In on DOGE
Aside from its penchant for firing crucial employees then scrambling to rehire them, and the highly-touted $8 billion savings that turned out to be $8 million, statistically speaking it's all smoke and mirrors. A study found that so far, about 40 percent of contracts they've canceled will save exactly zero dollars. They're just canceling software contracts and research funds that have already been paid out.
While We’re Here, Let’s Check In on Tesla, Too
Elon Musk's embrace of the American far-right has lined his pockets, but his political meddling (and specifically, antisemitism) outside of the US has thus far gone pretty poorly. Since endorsing Germany's modern-day Nazi party and chucking up a seig heil at Trump's inauguration, Tesla sales in Europe have dropped by 45 percent.
An A la Carte Menu for the Proletariat
The world's elite have amassed so much wealth, we've had to restructure how we categorize them. In Forbes' first list of billionaires in 1987, the richest person on the planet owned $20 billion. There's now a class that would have been unfathomable then: Superbillionaires. There are 24 such freaks who own $50 billion or more.
It Was Nice While It Lasted: That Asteroid Probably Isn’t Going To Hit Us
Scientists threatened us with a good time, estimating that the odds of getting blasted by a space rock in 2032 were as high as 3 percent. But they've downgraded it dramatically, to 0.0017 percent. In the words of Lloyd Christmas: "So you're telling me there's a chance."
