12 Farm-Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Wednesday, May 7, 2025

A sixth grader’s science experiment — “Does Your Cat’s Butthole Really Touch All the Surfaces in Your Home?” — finally answers the question. By applying lipstick to the “bum-bums” of multiple cats and giving them various commands, a Florida tween found that for the most part, no, the b-hole rarely comes in contact with stuff a cat sits on.

To be fair, the logo is absolutely dripping with suck: It’s a dragon in a suit with its arms crossed, and it appeared on every page of the lawsuit. The lawyer said it’s meant to symbolize “aggressive representation,” but the judge called it “juvenile,” “impertinent” and “distracting.”

The cop announced at his retirement that he’d lost his cuffs 12 years ago, explaining very cop-ily that “I didn’t come clean because I wanted to advance in my career.” They do undergo regular inspections of their items, but he was the guy who does the inspections, so he was able to squeak by.

The vast, vast majority of states favor the basics, like Coke, Pepsi and Mountain Dew. The only real outlier is Delaware, who has a crush on Crush.

Swiss and Italian researchers unveiled their RoboCake at Osaka’s Expo 2025. It features bears that move with pneumatic tubes and rechargeable batteries, all of which are edible. If you want the recipe, the batteries are made of vitamin B2, quercetin, activated carbon and chocolate, and have a “surprising tangy kick, due to the edible electrolyte inside.”

A study found that our hairier primate cousins’ wounds heal twice as fast as ours. Hair follicles contain stem cells that can be dispatched to help heal a wound, and fewer hair follicles means a smaller army to sew up a cut.

ABC News did a deep dive on the social media habits of the Cardinals, and found that while Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan has been going hard posting from Rome to his 300,000 Twitter followers the last few weeks, Archbishop of Tokyo Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi clocks in at 642,000 Facebook followers.

He requested that one of his popemobiles be turned into a mobile health clinic for children in Gaza, and it’ll be deployed if and when humanitarian corridors are opened back up.

A process called nixtamalization has been employed in taco recipes for at least 3,500 years, and is responsible for making corn tortillas softer and releasing essential vitamins from the ingredients. Some archaeologists believe that process was a crucial part of the success of ancient Mayan and Aztec cultures.

A detective reopened a previously closed case, this time with Ancestry.com data at his fingertips, and almost immediately found the missing woman. She had gotten married at 15 years old and endured five years of abuse before catching a bus to a different, undisclosed state, where she started a new life.

You don’t want to mess with the local black bears and mountain lions, but it’s actually the goofy-looking mule deer that injure the most visitors every year.

Swimming legend Gary Hall Jr. lost his Olympic medals in the L.A. fires, and the International Olympic Committee sent him replacements. He’s now the only athlete to ever receive 10 Olympic medals in one day.