12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, April 13, 2025
We’ve been using the same boring urinals for too long. No more.
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Plant-Based Biodegradable Clothing
Under Armour designed a collection of compostable clothes (as a publicity stunt, not an actual purchasable line) to combat microplastics in sportswear. We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.
Hmm, This Could Be a Problem for A.I.
Researchers say that extralingual interjections like “hmm” and “huh” are critical to the flow of a conversation, but their definitions are so hard to pin down, it will take A.I. a while to figure out how to use and understand them.
The Wealthiest Cities in the World
Looking at each city’s billionaires, millionaires and millionaire growth, Tokyo, the broader San Francisco area and New York have the most concentrated wealth in the world. America makes up four of the top ten.
The Most and Least Popular U.S. Billionaires
A survey of 4,415 American adults found that Warren Buffett is the most popular (52 percent favorable, 26 percent unfavorable), while Google cofounder Sergey Brin is technically the least popular (nine percent favorable, but 72 percent of respondents had never heard of him).
Where Does Elon Fall on This List?
He’s somehow both the third-most popular (39 percent favorable) and the second-most unpopular (a whopping 55 percent unfavorable). He’s tied with Jeff Bezos in unlikability, and only Mark Zuckerberg has them both beat (64 percent unfavorable).
Egg Prices Have Never Been Higher
Time to DM your high school bully who shared misleading stats about egg prices a few weeks ago — they hit a record-high $6.23 per dozen in March, 60 percent higher than just a year ago.
Where Did You Come From, Where Did You Go, Where Did You Come From Clay-Colored Sparrow?
This animation from the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance shows the migratory patterns of 15 different species across North and South America.
Apple Airlifted 600 Tons of iPhones Out of Tariff Country
Apple chartered a bunch of cargo planes to get about 1.5 million iPhones out of India before tariffs hit.
Futuristic Urinals
The biggest leap in urinal technology in the last 1,000 years was when they put a little soccer ball in there to aim at. Now, physicists have developed a series of urinal designs that scientifically prevent splashback. They look like they belong on on the Starship Enterprise, and they have names like the Cornucopia and the Nautilus.
A Closer Look at a Planet-Eater
In 2020, a star about 12,000 light-years away was observed consuming a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting around it, possibly as a result of swelling into a red giant. Data from the James Webb telescope suggests it may not have achieved red giant status at all, and instead the orbit of the Jupiter-sized planet had tightened so much that it plummeted into its star.
Either way, we’ll have what she’s having.
Brain Cells With an Invisibility Cloak
Researchers have developed a technique for grafting brain cells that won’t trigger the body’s immune system, which can be dangerous and require costly anti-immune treatments. This is a huge step forward for treating neurological diseases like Parkinson’s.
They Finally Tracked Down That Photo From ‘The Shining’
A big reveal at the end of the film is Jack Nicholson’s character front and center in a photo from the Overlook Hotel’s 1921 July Fourth Ball, but producers didn’t keep track of where the original stock photo came from. An investigation just found that it was indeed from 1921 — it was taken at the St. Valentine’s Day Ball at London’s Royal Palace Hotel, on February 14, 1921.
