12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, March 14, 2025

In 1956, someone threw acid on her lower half, and then a homeless man threw a rock at her in hopes of being arrested and getting shelter. The acid didn’t do anything, but the rock chipped a small section near her elbow (that was swiftly repaired).

When a body scanner at Newark Airport indicated something fishy around a Pennsylvania man’s groin, he reached in his pants and pulled out his five-inch red-ear slider. They’re still looking into whether this is illegal or just weird.

Before it became a global excuse for day drinking, St. Patrick’s Day was a solemn feast day. Blue had long been associated with Irish culture, with historians referring to it as “the old colour of Ireland,” so that’s the color most likely to have been displayed at these somber dinners.

Irish rebels attempted to shrug off British rule in 1798, and “wearing of the green” became a widespread indication of support for independence. The monarchy responded by crushing the rebellion, and giving more rights to Irish Protestants (who were largely loyal to the crown) and fewer to Irish Catholics (who had more of a nationalist streak). This cemented green as the color of rebellion and pride among the Irish.

Wisconsin police responded to a 9-1-1 call from a four-year-old reporting that “his mom ate his ice cream and needed to go to jail for it.”

The freaks who built The Sphere want to make a bunch of mini spheres, so they can harvest money off of B-list performers. The original Sphere holds up to 20,000 guests, which not every artist can draw, and is expensive to maintain. They hope a series of smaller spherelettes will have lower overhead and be used more often.

A big rock sitting next to a Queensland school’s parking lot was known for decades to have “chicken feet” on it, but an expert examined it and found the prints actually belonged to a Pisanosaurus from the Jurassic period.

Turning everything on our cars into a screen or a sensor has finally caught up with the auto industry. From 2015 to 2024, the amount of people who had “positive feelings” about the intuitiveness of their cars dropped from 79 percent to 56 percent. And from 2020 to 2024, the amount of EV owners who complained about their car handles has jumped fifteen-fold.

A doctor in the U.K. who said he couldn’t locate a sterile scalpel instead grabbed the Swiss Army knife from his pocket to open up a patient’s chest. The jury’s still out on whether this was a heroic move or “gross negligence.”

Like Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption, a bunch of Disney adults crawled through a river of shit to get on EPCOT’s Cosmic Rewind. A guest pooped all over the floor and walls of the queue, and a whole bunch of people stayed in line and walked through it to get on the ride.

A 32-year-old was baffled when he blew his nose and a small Lego came out. Then he remembered that, at age six, he’d gotten a piece stuck in his nose, and sent a Lego man up there after it, hoping it would snap onto the rogue piece. Instead, both got stuck. His mom got the man out, but the original piece remained (and caused decades of congestion and sleep apnea).

A dude quit his job at a U.K. real estate agency because his boss sent him to work at a worse desk. A tribunal ruled that he was right to see the reassignment as a demotion that would “seriously damage the relationship of trust and confidence,” and he won his case.