The 12 Funniest Things We Learned Today, Monday, February 3, 2025

At one point, Hungary printed the largest denomination banknote of all time, worth 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pengo.

In Japan, some citizens who can’t afford apartments instead live in internet gaming cafes, which are equipped with showers.

Instead of the G (or Grafenberg) spot, it almost became the Whipple Tickle to “honor” the person who discovered it: Beverly Whipple.

There is a street-legal version of the classic yellow-and-red Little Tikes car that reaches a top speed of 70 miles per hour, built by mechanic John Bitmead.

Apparently, the entire reason Tyson started boxing was to avenge a pet pigeon that was killed in front of him.

Before passport photos were more tightly regulated, you were pretty free to do what you wanted as long as they were the right size. Which led to a German passport featuring a woman and her dog.

When the KKK attempted to adopt a highway in Missouri, the government responded by renaming it Rosa Parks Highway.

At a festival known as El Colacho in Spain, men dressed to resemble the Devil hurdle real, honest-to-god babies lined up on the ground.

In the 1930s, Sinatra was arrested for “seduction,” which was the crime of promising a woman you’d marry them in order to have sex, then reneging on your word. The case went nowhere when it turned out the woman in question was married already.

In Ploiesti City, Romania, they created the world’s longest sausage, measuring in at a positively unreasonable 38.99 miles long. Joey Chestnut, this is your mission, should you choose to accept it.

In the town of Yreka, California, there was a bakery, understandably named Yreka Bakery, which is also a delightful palindrome, a word that’s spelled the same forwards and backwards. So when the bakery eventually went out of business, and was replaced by an art gallery, they respected its linguistic reputation by naming it the Yrella Gallery.

In 1967, political scientists thought that by 2020, the average American workweek would be as low as 16 hours. They forgot to factor in that famous American tradition: avarice.