What interesting things have you only recently learned about?
To be clear, this is about things which have been true for some time and you only recently learned about, not things that only happened recently. In particular, recent deaths of celebrities and other high-profile individuals should go in the General RIP Thread
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So, what interesting things have you guys...and gals...only recently learned about?
Edited by Twiddler on Apr 8th 2023 at 1:07:55 AM
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
The band Rush got their name because they were in a hurry to get somewhere.
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Kayo Satoh or more known as Kayo Police, is a model outside of her fighting game career.
edited 18th Jul '17 3:53:36 PM by murazrai
Braids From S286 Not Included
Godmodding in the sense of controlling other players' characters is allowed in Dino Attack RPG.
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
Mweheheh
Trump is the first president since Johnson to not have any pets.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The octopus has 10,000 more genes than a human. They are intelligent enough to alter their own brain activity at will. It is illegal in the UK to harm an octopus or perform surgery on them without anesthesia.
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
Plenty of species have more chromosomes or genes than humans. Wheat and earthworms, for instance.
edited 19th Jul '17 4:13:04 PM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
The Home Depot has had the exact same logo since day one.
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
The Montaña Rusa is the only wooden roller coaster in Mexico.
Tupac was not named Tupac.
Tupac's family was wild.
Back when the movie had a different (and decidely worse) script, Steve Whitmire didn't want to be credited in The Muppets 2011!
This is less "something that came up recently" and more "something that I should have known, but didn't", but anyway...
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, I thought Lock and Barrel were voiced by Danny Elfman and Paul Reubens respectively. Turns out it's actually the other way around.
edited 20th Jul '17 8:01:38 AM by DrNoPuma
"Humans and robots living together in harmony and equality. That was my ultimate wish."
Professional Professionalist
Zone-sama is a girl.
"Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened."
Sackboy has an entry on Characters.Play Station All Stars Battle Royale First Party Starter. Meanwhile, I've been struggling to find three tropes to add to his entry on the main Characters page for LittleBigPlanet. I honestly don't know if I'm grateful or annoyed.
Mweheheh
The ocean sunfish is poisonous.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" has a second verse.
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
Garlic repels mosquitoes but attracts leeches.
I like to keep my audience riveted.My phone has a flashlight.
I figured it had one, since most smartphones do, but I didn't know how to activate it until now. The problem was, the phone itself doesn't have a button to activate the flashlight, I had to scroll through the list of widgets to find it.
edited 28th Jul '17 2:29:13 PM by DrNoPuma
"Humans and robots living together in harmony and equality. That was my ultimate wish."
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
Do you have an Android phone, by any chance?
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Today I learned that I'm going to be on TV!
Mweheheh
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Are you allowed to tell us more?
Yes, it's an LG.
That sounds cool!
That's all I know so far.
A coding error caused the death of many patients due to radiation overdose.
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
My mom has had oven-baked pears before, and said that they were good. It gave me a bit of a confidence boost when I showed her my menu for the season finale of Game of Thrones.
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Two things.
1. Bailey's tastes like milk with bourbon in it.
2. The reason some of the lyrics are sort of indecipherable on Mental as Anything's cover of (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet is because...Martin forgot some of the lyrics so deliberately just mumbled the hell out of them to cover. Smooth.
edited 18th Jul '17 3:53:05 AM by Murataku
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.