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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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Hey guys...and gals...I was just browsing through an XKCD strip and ended up learning that Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swimming rabbit.

Courtesy link...

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

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#38226: Mar 26th 2024 at 3:22:34 PM

Linda Cardellini (Velma in the live-action Scooby Doo movies) voiced Wendy in Gravity Falls.

Just a simple man, making my way through the Tropes.
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#38227: Mar 26th 2024 at 3:28:03 PM

Steam goes down for routine maintenance every Tuesday evening.

He/they | Mostly here on my free days
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
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The Wanderer
#38229: Mar 26th 2024 at 3:56:20 PM

If you have chemotherapy that causes hair loss and your hair starts growing back, the texture might change, such as a person whose hair was originally straight prior to chemo coming out curly afterwards.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
punkcrow Tobias/TJ (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
AegisP Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#38231: Mar 26th 2024 at 4:43:26 PM

I love Linda Cardellini, she's awesome.

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Kinkajou I'm Only Sleeping Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Hiding
I'm Only Sleeping
#38232: Mar 26th 2024 at 5:51:05 PM

[up][up][up] Hank Green, yes?

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
omega2900 Just Some Guy from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
Just Some Guy
#38233: Mar 26th 2024 at 7:00:37 PM

You can speed up videos on Youtube by holding down spacebar.

Help me. I can't get it out of my head.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#38234: Mar 26th 2024 at 7:06:18 PM

[up] Or pressing the screen with your thumb on mobile.

The 2011/12 Oscars only had two Song nominees.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
jandn2014 Very Spooky from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
Very Spooky
#38235: Mar 26th 2024 at 7:35:38 PM

Frances in BIGTOP BURGER is voiced by Ayo Edebiri. I mean, I always knew this, but the first time I saw her VA I was like "oh I don't recognize that name, must be some nobody", only to go back later and realize "oh wait she's voiced by a well-known actress".

back lol
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (USA) (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#38236: Mar 26th 2024 at 9:05:08 PM

Mangoes are in the same family as cashews, poison oak, and poison ivy.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Demetrios Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
#38237: Mar 26th 2024 at 10:55:57 PM

The roller coaster at the West Edmonton Mall, the Mindbender, is no longer there. surprised

This certainly puts a damper on that part in the Canada chapter of my new book. x_x ^_^;;

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Cibryll Aile from Frost Heraldry (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
#38238: Mar 26th 2024 at 11:43:17 PM

[up] Why not make the books' stuff one where it didn't get closed?

"What ails you, my friend? Stay a while, and listen~"
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#38239: Mar 27th 2024 at 1:29:34 PM

Subordinators (e.g. “that” in “I saw that he left”) aren’t prepositions.

Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Mar 27th 2024 at 4:30:42 AM

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
AegisP Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#38240: Mar 27th 2024 at 2:34:50 PM

I learned we have Dead Hat Shot.

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Half-Kitsune
#38241: Mar 27th 2024 at 2:40:13 PM

The Weekenders was originally a placeholder title until the creator could come up with a new one, but they never got around to it.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#38242: Mar 27th 2024 at 5:39:40 PM

The Navajo language’s closest surviving relative is spoken in Siberia.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from Second Star to the left (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Disasturbator
#38243: Mar 28th 2024 at 5:20:31 AM

Doug aired on Nickalodian before it was moved to the Disney channel,I only know it as a Disney show.

New theme music also a box
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (USA) (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#38245: Mar 28th 2024 at 3:44:21 PM

Among the closest living relatives of beavers are kangaroo rats and their close relatives, who by extension are not muroids (True mice, true rats, and their close relatives like gerbils and hamsters) despite the name.

(Jerboas on the other hand are part of the sister group to muroids)

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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Officially intimidated
#38246: Mar 28th 2024 at 6:45:58 PM

I never knew that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the reason why the PG-13 tier was added to the MPAA rating scale. Kind of the film equivalent of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat having motivated the addition of the E10+ rating by the ESRB.

Edited by MyFinalEdits on Mar 28th 2024 at 9:46:14 AM

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Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#38247: Mar 28th 2024 at 6:51:48 PM

[up] Gremlins too.

Fresh neovaginas are at risk of fecal bacterial infection.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
AegisP Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#38248: Mar 28th 2024 at 6:56:51 PM

[up] I know this is a fact of life and life saving advice and this is not me telling to do it, I would have loved this had been hid under spoilers.

EDIT: A Serbian Film's article allows examples again.

Edited by AegisP on Mar 28th 2024 at 7:13:18 AM

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StewieGriffin34 from Sea ice (Season 2) Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#38249: Mar 30th 2024 at 7:46:59 AM

The fully-evolved Hisuian starters have shinies that are the same colouration as their original counterparts.

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Ayumi-chan low-poly Shinri from Calvard (Apprentice) Relationship Status: Serial head-patter
low-poly Shinri
#38250: Mar 30th 2024 at 8:44:03 AM

Rick Riordan's inspiration to make the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books was because his son (who has ADHD and dyslexia) was a massive fan of Greek mythology and Rick would tell him stories about them.

She/Her | Currently cleaning N/A

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