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
You can receive a large cash reward for discovering the highest prime number.
dizzy
There is no 'highest' prime number, though
simple as
Exactly! ;)
Officially intimidated
Scooby Doo was conceived in 1969. I thought it was much older.
135 - 169 - 273 - 191 - 188 - 230 - 300
Lovely Legilimens
The Lucario line has a 7-to-1 male-to-female ratio. As someone who has been a Pokemon fan since Gen 3, this came as shocking because I've never seen a female Riolu or Lucario in any of the games I've played.
edited 22nd Oct '17 7:55:56 PM by TroperNo9001
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The greater short-nosed fruit bat is the only non-primate species known to perform fellatio during copulation.
Mweheheh
Girls can get smegma.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The "3" and "8" buttons on my microwave are now broken.
plant
Micheal Bay is making a Dora the Explorer movie...Apparently...
" I'm the princess! Everyone has to do what I say!"
Lovely Legilimens
There are glasses that can fix red-green color blindness.
That the most marshmallows stuffed inside the mouth was 44. Yum.
My Wheel of Fortune episode will air in December.
edited 26th Oct '17 9:59:09 PM by Twentington
Having a good time!
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You're gonna be on Wheel of Fortune? That is definitely something I didn't know until very recently.
Yep! I've been trying to get on the show since 2009 and finally made the cut!
dizzy
dril has a Wikipedia page
simple as
SO MUCH ENVY!! I wanna play too!
And! Speaking of words! The Spanish word for avocado, aguacate, comes from an ancient Nahuatl word meaning "testicle." And now I can't un-see it. Gonna buy some huge green nads next time I go to the grocery store.
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Thanks! ^_^
edited 25th Oct '17 5:34:35 AM by RaspyMink
Check for Wheelmobile auditions in your area, or submit a video audition. Wheelmobile auditions are random draws. If they pick you from the random draw or like your video (or sometimes even if they don't pick you in the random draw, which was the case with me), then you'll get invited back for a closed audition.
Neptunia Ichiban
There's a (Japan-only) historical samurai-era spinoff of the Yakuza series for PS4, called Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin. (There was also a similar game for PS3)
shouldn't his favorite genre be RPG and not point and click though
I didn't know that's how you audition. I may have to try that. I auditioned for Jeopardy a few years back and didn't make the cut. I guess I assumed Wo F had a similar audition process with an online test.
Mweheheh
The Cat in the Hat made $100 million domestically. I thought it made significantly less.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Sling.tv offers an online live TV player exclusively in Chrome, as an alternative to their desktop app, which performs poorly. What they failed to make clear was that that was a REPLACEMENT for the desktop app, which as off last night as been shut down!
A betting site in Ireland has Atlanta and Austin as the two frontrunners for landing Amazon's HQ 2 project. Philadelphia, Boston, and Toronto round out its top 5. (I wasn't sure if posting odds was against site rules, so I didn't for now.)
I honestly don't think Boston is going to get it. It would be weird if it did though.
Denver's not on the list? Awesome! :D The last thing we need is anything else bringing more people in. Housing prices are outrageous and poor people are being priced out.
edited 26th Oct '17 12:56:10 PM by RaspyMink
You can get the Adamantium Dragon in Dragon City as a reward for completing the Seeker collection.
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