What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve heard recently?

Asked by raum (13207) September 5th, 2019 from iPhone

I was talking to my niece about how wasps pollinate figs. That the female wasp crawls into the fig to lay her eggs. The tunnel is so narrow that she loses her wings. If she has chosen the right (male) fig to land in, she lays her eggs. If she has chosen the wrong (edible female) fig to land in, she dies alone and the fig releases enzymes that digest her.

To which my niece remarked that she has some vegan friends who don’t eat figs for this very reason.

This made me laugh at loud. The FDA allows for a certain percentage of insects in our food. Unless they are hardcore and grow everything they eat, chances are they’ve eaten a good amount of insects already.

https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

What ridiculous thing have you heard recently? Even though it provides so much fodder, let’s try to leave politics out of it. Thanks!