12 Random Bits of Trivia That Were in Your Heart All Along

Researchers believe an 86-million-year-old fossil in a Mongolian museum known as the “dragon prince” may be a close cousin of the T. rex, which would shed some light on unknown portions of the dinosaur’s evolution. 

The Guinness World Record for oldest restaurant belongs to Spain’s 300-year-old Sobrino de Botín, but Madrid’s Casa Pedro believes they’ve got them beat by 23 years — they just can’t provide the evidence.

Ancient Romans had on-the-go food and snack shops that were sort of the equivalent of today’s fast-food joints. Researchers sifting through an ancient trash pile near one of these stands on Mallorca have pieced together an ancient fast-food menu: thrushes, domestic chickens and rabbits.

To make sure all venues in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is being held all over North America, feel the same, the league is developing a mix of natural and artificial turf. The guy in charge of the pitch says, “Whether they’re playing Seattle or Guadalajara, I need these pitches to behave absolutely the same.”

Scientists at the SETI Institute have studied 39 bubble rings made by 11 different whales, and have concluded that they use bubbles to try to communicate with humans.

Scientists had long assumed a baboon’s gate was either random, or an evolutionary quirk, but new research suggests that baboons who spend a lot of time together adopt each other’s walking styles.

Researchers have been studying people’s unique “respiratory fingerprints,” and are able to identify people based on breathing pattern alone with 96.8 percent accuracy.

Chile’s Rubin Observatory will collect 20 terabytes worth of data every day for 10 years and then put together a time-lapse movie of these snapshots of space, hoping to detect new planets and comets.

Rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment (the one that sorta, kinda abolished slavery), signed by Abraham Lincoln, are going up for auction. The 13th Amendment in particular is expected to fetch at least $8 million.

Even when it’s undetectable and untransmittable, traces of HIV can be laying dormant in white blood cells. A new process forces cells to reveal themselves and then kill the remaining HIV. The process was once thought impossible, and is so efficient it left researchers feeling “overwhelmed.”

OpenAI struck up a lucrative and stupid sponsorship with Mattel to “bring the magic of A.I. to age-appropriate play experiences.”

In 1962, Lennon wrote a letter to his future wife Cynthia Powell that he was headed her way with “choices and a throbber,” and you can buy it for around £40,000.