12 Pop Culture Trivia Tidbits For Thursday, April 3, 2025
Yeah man, maybe making incels talk to chatbots will save online dating.
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Chipotle Is Going to the Ends of the Earth to Source Avocados
Ninety percent of avocados imported to the U.S. come from Mexico, but Chipotle uses so many of them (five percent of all avos eaten in America) that they’ve been developing new trade routes in countries like Peru and Guatemala for the last seven years.
18 Rosies the Riveter Will Be Given the Highest Civilian Award in America
Eighteen women who served as welders in World War II convened at Louisiana’s National World War Two Museum to be give the Congressional Gold Medal, considered equal in honor to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Tinder Wants You to Believe Talking to A.I. Will Help You Talk to Girls
The latest in a string of impossibly stupid A.I. features being shoehorned into dating apps is Tinder’s The Game Game. The point is to get a chatbot to agree to hook up with you in the allotted time by sending it texts and voice notes.
A Hand Model Is Suing Nestle Because a Bottle of Sparkling Water Exploded
A QVC spokesmodel claims that a bottle of San Pellegrino exploded on her kitchen counter, lacerating her wrist and compromising her income as an on-screen presenter. Her suit appears to be modeled off of a 1944 suit by a California server who was injured by an exploding Coca-Cola bottle.
An Even Larger Hadron Collider
A new proposal has been released for a machine that will replace the Large Hadron Collider: the Future Circular Collider will be 57 miles in circumference, compared to the LHC’s 17 miles.
80,000 Pounds of Beef Disappeared Into Thin Air
Police are investigating a heist of about 320,000 quarter-pounders worth of beef, which were loaded into two delivery trucks and never reached their destination. The meat has a street value of $350,000.
There Are More Billionaires Than Ever; May They All Have Great Vacations in Their Submarines and Space Ships
Forbes just dropped its 2025 World’s Billionaires List, featuring 3,028 monsters idolized by your dumbest cousin. The list has grown by 247 since 2024. When they started the list in 1987, there were 140 total.
Who Has the Most Billionaires?
India came in third with 205, China was second at 516 and the United States harbors the most economic terrorists at 902.
Volcano Pizza
Chef Mario David García built Pizza Pacaya in Guatemala so that heat from active volcano vents would cook his pizza at 1,800 degrees.
Your Brain and Stomach Conspire to Make You Crave Dessert
When you eat, the part of your brain that tells you you’re hungry will get signals from your stomach, then switch to telling you you’re full. But then it will go a step further, telling you that actually, you are hungry — for sugar in particular. Furthermore, according to a bariatric surgeon, “sugar actually relaxes the stomach, increasing its capacity.”
A Farmer Is Trying to Cultivate a Biblical Food
“Manna” isn’t just from Bible stories and Magic: The Gathering, it’s a white sap that’s rich in minerals but relatively hard to come by. Sicilian farmer Giulio Gelardi has spent the last 30 years developing manna harvesting and production techniques, and encouraging local chefs and bakers to cook with it.
What’s the Longest Known Cat Tail?
Mr. Pugsley Addams, a grey Maine Coon from Minnesota, holds the Guinness record for longest tail at 1.5 feet.
