12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Sunday, April 20, 2025
There’s a good chance that birds are better at math than you are.
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They’re Sleep Training High Schoolers Now
A high school in Ohio is teaching a class called “Sleep to Be a Better You” to help combat a mental-health crisis. The school’s health teacher says, “You’d be shocked how many just don’t know how to sleep.”
The Longest Stretch of Sunny Days in History
St. Petersburg, Florida has held the record since 1967, when it wrapped up a 768-day marathon of nothing but sunny weather.
Panama City Is Done With Spring Break
The Panama City Beach Police Chief is sick of tourists getting rowdy and threatening the safety of full time residents, saying, “To the idiots, go somewhere else.”
A Guy Totally Forgot That He’d Chucked a Message in a Bottle Into the Ocean 50 Years Ago
A teen in Massachusetts stuffed a message in a bottle in 1976, and it was just found on a remote island in the Bahamas. The person who found it contacted the man who’d sent it, only to find he plum forgot he’d done it in the first place.
The Great Hollywood Sperm Race
A startup has raised $1 million for Sperm Racing, an event at the Hollywood Palladium that “will feature a microscopic racetrack where sperm motility is tracked in real-time, offering a full sporting experience with commentary and betting.”
The Oldest American to Ever Get a Law Degree
While a guy in Idaho just became the oldest man to graduate from law school at 74, he concedes there are two women who graduated older, including Jeanette Goldstein, who got her degree at age 83.
Screen Time Is Actually Pretty Crucial for Adults
A new study has found that the rise in availability and sophistication of digital technology since the 1990s has proven beneficial for overall cognition in adults over 50.
Every Black Hole Has a Companion Star (Until Now)
Scientists have just identified the first known “lone black hole,” which doesn’t have a star orbiting it, about 5,000 light years away.
The First Sloth to Get Tooth Surgery
Rico, a 25-year-old two-toed sloth, was suffering from a year-long toothache before he received a three-hour surgery to fix it, the first of its kind.
Do Animals Lack Reasoning and Rationality?
We tend to think of those as strictly human traits, but evidence to the contrary is all around us, from crows who make tools to alligators who lure in prey using twigs.
Speaking of Which: Crows Might Know Geometry
A new study has found that crows are able to detect geometric patterns among a group of shapes. An old study of baboons found that the primates couldn’t recognize quadrilaterals, so it was long assumed that no smaller animal had a chance at passing a math test.
What Does It Take to Be Middle-Class in America?
The hardest states to break into the middle class are Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts, which each take a salary of at least $67,000 per year. The lowest barriers to the middle class are in Louisiana ($39k), West Virginia ($37k) and Mississippi ($36k).
