12 Madness-Inducing Bits of Trivia Too Awesome and Terrible to Be Processed by the Human Brain, Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You

Apollo 14 brought a few hundred seeds of various trees on its trip to the moon, which were then distributed around the country and planted at various parks, camps and government buildings. The Moon Tree Foundation has been able to locate about 60 of them in recent years.

British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton produced a high-res, 10-hour film that was literally just paint drying on a wall. He was protesting the U.K.’s strict film censorship by forcing the British Board of Film Classification to watch the entire thing in order to give it an age rating.

A study of testosterone levels after various activities found that chopping wood increased the hormone by 46 percent, while soccer increased it by a scant 29 percent.

In 2017, Nancy Holten was denied Swiss citizenship, for the second time, despite having lived there for over three decades. Citizenship is highly dependent on input from your peers, and Holten’s peers resent her because of her outspoken opposition to the tradition of putting huge, loud bells on their cows. That, and she’s a vegan and won’t shut up about it.

Scientists have observed hair that had previously gone grey due to stress returning to its natural color upon returning to a normal level of cortisol. The phenomenon seems to occur to random, single hairs, but scientists are working on a way to create an un-greyifying medication.

Ebert put David’s 1998 film Sour Grapes on his list of most hated films, saying, “I can’t easily remember a film I’ve enjoyed less.” In a 2002 episode of Curb, “The Grand Opening,” a character who rates restaurants on a thumbs-up-to-thumbs-down gradient gets his thumbs shattered by a dodgeball. Ebert seemed to acknowledge the clapback in an interview, saying, “Curb Your Enthusiasm is a wonderful TV show, and I like it a lot. I did wince when the critic’s thumbs got broken.”

The U.K.-based live events ticketing app has four hangover days built into its sick-day policy, to encourage folks to enjoy the events they help promote. They only ask that the employee send “music,” “beers” and “sick” emojis to their boss on WhatsApp to let them know what’s going on.

There are about 1.3 million legally blind people in the country, with about 75,000 folks joining their ranks every year.

A study of high school buddies found that pairs of friends were more genetically similar than completely random pairs of people. That biological similarity is even stronger among married couples.

When faced with a big decision, scholars would make a point of mulling it over both sober, and completely sloshed. If, and when, their sober self and drunk self agreed, they could be confident that they’d reached a valid conclusion. 

It’s most likely because of its affiliation with wealth and royalty. Modern democracies don’t want to strike any sort of regal tone, and in the old days, purple was prohibitively expensive to produce (which is why it was associated with wealth to begin with).

In 2014, Kanye halted a show in Australia, refusing to perform until everyone in the crowd got on their feet, and announced, “I decided I can’t do this song, I can’t do the rest of the show until everybody stands up.” He got increasingly hostile toward two fans who wouldn’t stand, and didn’t believe they were in wheelchairs until one of them waved their prosthetic leg in the air.