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
Mweheheh
Bill Murray owns a Caddyshack-themed restaurant (his brother Andy is the head chef).
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
Penn State's (my alma mater) wrestling team has won seven of the last eight NCAA championships (2011-2014, 2016-2018).
I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!
Jer gets all the girls
Tiger Woods isn't actually named "Tiger".
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
Mweheheh
Taco Bell briefly owned a barbecue restaurant.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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They also owned a hamburger chain called Hot & Now.
Bill Murray sat through an on-stage Isle of Dogs group interview almost falling asleep.
Mweheheh
The combo meal & kids’ meal were invented by a now-defunct chain called Burger Chef.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The infamous "this is fine" comic and that comic where Kirby calls Meta Knight a "borb" were both created by the same dude.
edited 21st Mar '18 8:52:46 PM by FawfulCrump
Meito Anizawa, Anime Tenchou
There was a bootleg game-making Taiwanese company named NTDEC - short for Nintendo Electronic Co. Not surprisingly, they got sued by Nintendo
Mweheheh
A&W is older than McDonald’s.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
Well whaddaya know, my glasses have photochrome lenses after all!
It's just that I saw fuck-all of direct sunlight since I got them.
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
Mweheheh
IMDb lists upcoming television airings of movies.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Bennett the Sage recently lost a lot of weight. He looks great now.
Mweheheh
There was a British female rock band in the late 90s & early 2000s called Rockbitch who would throw a gold condom into the crowd at every show. Whoever caught it (male or female) got to have sex with the band.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
A Twitter movement called #Delete Facebook caused thousands of users to delete their accounts en masse because of the Cambridge Analytica mess.
Mweheheh
Rotten Tomatoes redesigned their website.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
I deleted mine in 2010 before it was trendy! :P
Mweheheh
Seinfeld only won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series once.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
Tumblr nuked another 84 katsap agitprop accounts. Yay!
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
Mweheheh
What’s “katsap agitprop”?
"Katsap" is a Ukrainian anti-Russian slur. Agitprop means "political propaganda", usually in a Soviet context. So Russian trolls basically.
Disasturbator
84 isn't a huge number if I'm honest,if they're serious they're looking at removing at hundreds
New theme music also a box
Mweheheh
Is Tumblr really that popular with Russian trolls (compared to e.g. Facebook)?
edited 24th Mar '18 10:14:34 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Disasturbator
Tumblr is home to a massive amount of fandoms so there's bound to be some on there
New theme music also a box
Ringo Starr has been knighted. Both living Beatles are now knighted.