12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, March 9, 2025
Texas seems to have an unending supply of 70-somethings to throw into a congressional seat until they die.
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Archaeologists Find Evidence of Bone Tools in Use One Million Years Earlier Than They Thought
For a while, we thought humans started using bone tools about 500,000 years ago. But new evidence suggests we’ve been fiddling with our skeletons for 1.5 million years.
Kohler’s Melodramatic Remote-Controlled Toilet
An extremely over-the-top commercial for Kohler’s new smart toilet feels like a perfume ad, beckoning the viewer to “seek, explore, uncover uncommon beauty in every curve.” It ends with a presumably poop-filled model eyeing up the disembodied toilet bowl on a windy rooftop.
Finally, Medical Marijuana That Doesn’t Feel Good or Make Music Sound Better
Scientists believe they’ve developed a non-opioid compound that blocks pain in the same way that cannabis does, without all the hassle of getting high and feeling awesome.
The Term ‘Gung-Ho’ Was Originally a Chinese Semi-Acronym
The phrase is an anglicization of a Mandarin Chinese expression “gōnghé,” which was a shortening of Zhōngguó Gōngyè Hézuò Shè, or “Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society.” These co-ops provided grassroots industrial support for the Chinese military during a war with Japan in the mid-20th century.
Septuagenarians Are Cannon Fodder for the Gerontocracy
When Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee passed away at age 74, she was replaced by congressman Sylvester Turner. After two months in office, Turner passed away at age 70. At this rate, we should have a 40-year-old in office in about a year.
Honda’s Poké-Cycle
Honda published a silhouette and a few detail renderings of the Pokémon Koraidon motorcycle, which has the hands, feet and eyes of a Koraidon that all somehow move when the bike is in gear.
There’s a New Way to Treat Some Types of Blindness, But You’re Not Gonna Like It
A new procedure called keratoprosthesis involves harvesting a piece of a patient’s tooth, carving it into a strong lens and implanting it into the eye.
A 40-Year-Old College Baseball Record Was Just Broken
George Mason University just smashed the record for most runs scored in a single inning, which had last been set in 1984. They scored 23 runs in the third inning, before pumping the brakes and winning the game 26-6.
There’s a String of Mysterious Train Horn Thefts
After two high-profile Canadian train horns were stolen by hardcore rail fans in 2024, an even bolder theft was pulled off this year. Train enthusiasts warned a museum that suspicious photos of its vintage Nathan M5 Airchime Train Horn were circulating on a nefarious Discord server, but by the time workers went to remove it, it had already been stolen.
Digging Out of Their Own Grave
Founder Kevin Rose formed an alliance with his one-time rival, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, to buy Digg.com back from media giant BuySellAds. We don’t know how much they paid for it, but at its peak, the site was valued at $160 million — in 2008.
Two Grown Men Were Arrested for Stealing a Paddington Statue
There used to be a statue of Paddington in author Michael Bond’s hometown, attached securely to a bench. It was brutally hacked off and stolen, and two 22-year-olds have been arrested for theft and criminal damage. Local police have said, punchably, that what’s left of the statue is “heading to Newbury police station for a much-needed marmalade sandwich.”
Two Kids Tried to Smuggle Drugs Into a Prison by Firing Them Out of a Cannon
Two teenagers were arrested while plotting to use a compressed-air cannon to launch $112,000 worth of tobacco and $89,500 worth of meth into a federal prison in Louisiana.
