Things you didn't know until very recently...

Doug Hutchison married a 16 year old girl when he was 51.

The explosion of an atomic bomb is bright enough to cause permanent blindness if you look at it directly.

The Stellar's sea cow went extinct only 27 years after it was discovered.

Robert Nozick was Jewish.

The caracal, a species of feline, can't actually purr so it hisses instead, even when in a content mood.

Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker died after falling off a second-story window.

Taylor Swift is 5'11".

Venus doesn’t have a magnetic field.

Nether does Mars,apprently its due to a lack of dynamo at the planet's core

The scientific notation was invented by Archimedes in the 3rd century BC.

In addition to the well-known cacao bean Theobroma cacao, the Aztecs also cultivated the closely related ''Theobroma bicolor'', also known as the mocambo or jaguar cacao, for the producion of chocolate.

There is an official Minions whack-a-mole game. There are definitely people out there who would be delighted to know this.

France decriminalized homosexuality in the 18th century.

Johnny Somali got let out of Japanese prison and now he’s in Israel harassing people.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Apr 8th 2024 at 1:54:57 PM

I learned some details about the Bodom Lake massacre, one of the most infamous unsolved murders in Finland. The reason it was so hard to solve, was that when combing the fores for clue, the police ran into not one, not two, not three, but five violent fugitives independently hiding out from the cops in the forest, and not enough forensic evidence to tie any one of them specifically to the crime scene.

I just imagine one team coming in to the HQ glowing, thinking they caught the guy, only to find three other squads there with their own slam dunk suspects.

[ed.] the total was 88 fugitives in the forest, I think only five had serious violent histories. Also, the forensic investigation was hampered by inexperienced police both trampling the scene themselves, but also allowing press and onlookers to do so too. Gotta love 1960's police work.

Edited by JethroQWalrustitty on Apr 9th 2024 at 12:24:13 PM

Jeffrey Demunn (Dale from The Walking Dead) was in The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

The director of The Time Machine (2002), Simon Wells, is the great-grandson of H. G. Wells, who wrote the original story.

The Scranton Strangler was not a serial killer, but a serial strangler instead.

The founder of Friend Finder is running for president.

Rafaela is supposedly the feminine eqilivant to the name Raphael.

As it turns out, getting a game ported to a newer console isn't a simple "copy and paste" routine. You gotta get rights cleared, for starters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdW21QSUfEw

This AWESOME dub of an hilariously AWESOME Sailor Moon comic is FILLED with actors who are now industry veterans.

EDIT: It's the famous "Minako goes insane with puns" lol.

Edited by AegisP on Apr 10th 2024 at 2:37:57 AM

The first animated Titanic movie has TWO Latin American Spanish dubs. Luis Miguel Pérez, THE best voice of Superman, voices the rapping dog in one of them.

Edited by Angry_Clown on Apr 10th 2024 at 6:48:03 AM

It's perfectly normal to poop while giving birth.

More like something I didn't notice until now, but Bowser's Castle from Mario Kart 64 is the only retro course in the Lightning Cup of Mario Kart Wii that didn't return in Mario Kart Tour or 8 Deluxe.