12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Cytokines, tiny proteins that carry messages between cells, may also get inside your brain and affect your level of anxiety or sociability. The general takeaway is that your immune system may directly impact your behavior when you’re fighting something off.

The Lighthouse Cafe’s sign was washed away by Hurricane Ian in 2022, and was presumed lost at sea, symbolic of the loss felt by the cafe and the community. Almost three years later, a customer found the sign in a pile of debris and returned it to the establishment, where the owner “started to tear up and he got really excited and emotional.”

An artist has created chicken.pics, a sort of tournament-style comparison game to help classify their collection of original chicken artwork. You’re presented with two different chickens and asked to pick which is more “radiant,” “bumptious” and other odd adjectives that will challenge your preconceptions about chickens.

The internet-famous Boaty McBoatface was doing its rounds underwater when it bumped into a 55-year-old camera rigged in the 1970s to try and snap some candids of the Loch Ness Monster. The film was developed, but didn’t capture any Nessie evidence.

The island of O’ahu is a great example of how human impact, whether from our behavior, environmental destruction or introduction of non-native species, can not only change ecosystems, but cause nature to create entirely new ones.

Fifty percent of Tumblr’s active monthly users are Gen Z, who also account for 60 percent of new sign-ups in 2025. The impetus seems to be part ironic nostalgia (see also: mullets and mustaches) and part privacy (Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are poison, but who’s ever heard of Matt Mullenweg?).

Canada geese are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, which in Illinois makes it illegal to capture and relocate them. During nesting season, there’s a team of “geesekeepers” employed to protect any local geese during games and events.

Ronin the landmine-sniffing rat has identified 109 landmines and 15 other “items of unexploded ordnance” left over from a decades-long civil war in Cambodia.

Watch brand Vacheron Constantin took eight years to design the most complicated watch in the world. Their Solaria Ultra Grand Complication has a record-breaking 41 extra doodads that do something other than tell the time, including 13 gizmos they’ve invented and applied for patents on.

Hubble data has shown that the modern day on Uranus lasts 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds, which is 28 seconds longer than it was in the 1980s.

The average ticket price in 1996 was $25.81, and that’s ballooned to $135.92 in 2024. There was an especially galling leap from $88 in 2021 to $130 in 2023.

Samsung’s new cordless vacuum will make sure you know when you get a call or text, making sure you can’t even complete one of the most crucial household tasks without distraction.