The Weirdest, Wildest, And Most Viral Trivia People Loved In 2025 |
If there’s one thing I love, it’s a bit of trivia – whether it’s to do with the composition of paprika, or what singers do if they have to pee mid-performance.
Which is why I’m a regular browser of Reddit’s r/todayilearned, a forum dedicated to “interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here”.
And seeing as we’re already in Advent (gulp), we thought we’d share some of the most-upvoted entries to the group this year.
1) “Anthony Bourdain called Ratatouille ’simply the best food movie ever made.’”
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Yup – speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2011, the chef said, “It’s a measure of how deficient Hollywood has been in making an accurate restaurant-food-based film that far and away the best was about an animated rat.”
2) “Ken Allen, an orangutan at the San Diego Zoo, became famous for his many successful escapes.”
“He never acted aggressively toward patrons, but would throw rocks at Otis, another orangutan he ‘despised.’”
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After his first 1985 escape, Newsweek reported, Ken’s keepers built the walls behind his enclosure’s moat (!) higher. But, yup, Ken made his way out again. He was temporarily moved to a single room with a black and white TV after that.
To be fair, though, The Los Angeles Times said his nemesis Otis was “not known to be amiable.”........