12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Monday, April 7, 2025
Tucker Carlson says chewing tobacco is a “work enhancer,” which makes sense if your job is to spew poison garbage out the side of your mouth.
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The Tiny Easter Egg in the Betty White Forever Stamp
The USPS has just released their Betty White stamp, and the artist explained how he included a minuscule nod to White’s animal advocacy: “I was absent-mindedly drawing instead of eating my eggs and looking back down at the mess I had been making in my sketchbook, I saw that at some point, I had drawn a paw print. (I thought) what if I just give Betty an earring that’s in the shape of a paw print?”
Are Guns Getting More Popular Among Democrats?
Between 2010 and 2022, the amount of Republican gun-owners grew by three percent, while Democratic gun-ownership grew by nine percent. Rs still outnumber Ds overall, 55 percent to 29 percent.
What’s the Best Beverage in Your State?
Reader's Digest partnered with food media brand Taste of Home to determine the best beverage in each state. Indiana was saddled with water, but to be fair it’s a self-own: they made it their state beverage in 2007.
What Are the Coolest Neighborhoods in the World?
Time Out put together a ranking of the “coolest” hoods on the planet, with only one U.S. spot, Kerns in Portland, making the top 10. The top three were Pererenan (Bali), Mers Sultan (Casablanca) and Notre-Dame du Mont (Marseille).
What Are the Best Cities for Vegans and Vegetarians?
If you’re not a meat-eater, one data analyst says that Portland, Oregon, Orlando and Los Angeles are your top safe havens.
Mammals Borrowed One of Our Most Distinctive Features From a Completely Different Type of Animal
A study has found that our lower jaw joints, which separate mammals from other vertebrates, evolved independently from a now-extinct group of animal, cynodonts. Technically, mammals are cynodonts, but the li’l dudes who first evolved those jaw joints are long gone. Thanks, guys!
A Real Kentucky Soap Opera
In late 2024, Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines was arrested on suspicion of shooting Judge Kevin Mullins to death in the judge’s own chambers. Both were implicated to different degrees in a messed-up sextortion scheme two years earlier, when one of Stines’ deputies was accused of running a brothel out of Mullins’ chambers.
The World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery
London’s Hyde Park is home to what may be the oldest pet cemetery in the world, which likely started when a family got special permission from the park’s gatekeeper to bury their Maltese, Cherry, in 1881. That started a trend that caused the plot to become an official burying ground for local pets.
Tucker Carlson Can’t Make Up His Mind on Zyn
After talking up Zyn nicotine pouches for years, calling them a “work enhancer” (???) and a “male enhancer, if you know what I mean” (!!!), Carlson suddenly started calling it a “ladies brand” and launched his own tastier, moister competitor.
Cat and Dog Memes Were Around Long Before the Internet
Early 20th-century postcards had a lot in common with modern pet memes, like the tendency to put human words cheekily in animals’ mouths, and popular images being borrowed and reiterated for different messages and purposes.
Cats Actually Like to Play Fetch
A new study found that about 41 percent of cats are able to retrieve the way dogs do.
Trump Set a Tariff on Penguins
The brilliant new tariffs imposed with surgical precision include the Heard and McDonald Islands, remote territories of Australia where many penguins and zero humans live.
