12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, April 2, 2025
The only thing weirder than twins is “digital twins.”
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The Most Three-Pointers in a March Madness Game
Alabama knocked down a record-breaking 25 three-pointers in a 113-88 shellacking of BYU. The record had previously been held by Loyola Marymount for 35 years.
The World’s Most Expensive Dog
Indian "dog enthusiast" and rich freak S. Sathish paid £4 million for a unique half-wolf half-shepherd named Okami.
He’s Got His Eyes on a New Weird Dog
Sathish is working on a deal to buy an even weirder dog for £10 million. It’s so big, he needs to have a helicopter airlift it to his home: “This dog is the size of a donkey. No one has seen it before.”
The Woman With the World’s Longest Tongue Can Play ‘Jenga’ With It
California woman Chanel Tapper has a 3.8-inch tongue, which has held the Guinness record for 15 years now. She put together a sizzle reel of some of the stuff she can do with it, like playing flip-cup and Jenga.
A Soccer Team Held a Moment of Silence for a Player Who Wasn’t Dead
A Bulgarian soccer team paused for a minute before a game to honor former player Petko Ganchev. Ganchev later said, “To bury you alive is very stressful. When I heard the horrible news, I poured myself a small brandy.”
A Pilot Proposed Midair
After his girlfriend bought him his first flight lesson long ago, a now-seasoned pilot and flight instructor proposed while 7,500 feet above Boca Raton.
A Meteorologist Proposed at Work, Too
A Texas meteorologist invited his girlfriend to the green screen during a broadcast, ostensibly for an interview. But he had the production team key in a romantic flickering candlelight video, and proposed to her on the spot.
The Fashion Industry Is Going to Start Mass Producing ‘Digital Twins’
H&M is leading the charge, making 3D scans of several of its models “down to their birthmarks and movement patterns.” Luckily, under this plan, the models still own their digital twins and can negotiate their pay.
2,000 Restaurants Shut Down Because of One Bug — And Also a Rat
Japanese chain Sukiya temporarily shut down about 2,000 of its restaurants after a “pest” was found in one of its products. This comes on the heels of a rat being found in a miso soup in January, so the company is taking some time to figure out what’s going on.
What Are Your Neighbors Reading?
A study of Google Trends data has revealed the most-read book genres in each state: fiction, romance, poetry, history, fantasy, mystery or family.
Happy Birthday, From Hubble
NASA put together a tool where you can enter your birthday and month, and it’ll assemble an album of sick pics the Hubble has taken on that day of the year.
Elite Athletes Donated Their Poop to Mice
A new study found that fecal transplants from elite human athletes to laboratory mice caused the mice’s muscles to store more energy, showing that aerobic exercise creates a very specific gut biome that has metabolic benefits. Spin it however you want; scientists put human poop inside of mice.
