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

R. L. Stine is 80. Given that Goosebumps started in The '90s, I knew he would be in at least his sixties by now, but I didn't know he was that old.

We have the trope Quest for Sex, I thought it would be killed by the P5 lol.

Calling children ”kids” was originally used as an insult because it insinuated that they were unruly and ill-mannered.

This is because goat kids are known for being very high-energy and rowdy.

Paramount owns WhoSay.

Is that where the terms kids came from?

Also, The hold my beer earliest example thing was from Looney Tunes.

There is a very bumpy and misshapen potato whose Peruvian name translates to “the potato that makes the daughter-in-law cry”, because Incan mothers would give their future daughter-in-law the potato and challenged them to peel it all in one go without breaking it.

There's a "for kids" version of Into the Woods, which was expediently made by simply cutting the entire second act.

The father of current football manager Xabi Alonso, Periko Alonso, was a Barcelona player. Pretty ironic considering Xabi was a Real Madrid player.

My favorite movie theater (Hollywood Palms) now has heated seats.

That place sure likes to keep giving me reasons to love it, doesn’t it?

There's an acoustic version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Leaves That Are Green" where only Simon sings. It is, in fact, the first recorded version, and it's beautiful.

Shazam (the app) was launched in 2002.

There's a Psychedelic Rock band called Weird Owl. Surprisingly, they're unrelated to "Weird Al" Yankovic, though I'm fairly certain that they might have been named in reference to him.

A kid I went to daycare with and used to be friends with is now apparently a Twitch streamer. Neat-o

An Adam's Apple is that bulge on your neck and not that bulge in your pants.

Pixar animates by making clay figures and then digitizing them.

Deader Than Disco’s been de facto renamed Condemned by History (technically it’s a disambiguation, but the latter’s closer to what the trope referred to).

Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Apr 19th 2024 at 11:21:22 AM

The Shadyside district of Pittsburgh has a Russian labor mob, and one of my neighbors is trying to bust it.

Thomas Edison opposed capital punishment.

I thought Tintin was a French comic, but it's actually Belgian.

According to my mom, you should make spaghetti the night before so that it'll marinate in the fridge and taste even better when you re-heat it the next day.

That was my dad's secret way to win chili contests!

That's why it's part of the "Franco-Belgian" comics milieu.

According to Egyptian Mythology, vultures are Always Female.

Ooh, I'll have to try that the next time I make spaghetti. I usually just make it, eat it, and refrigerate the leftovers.

they also believed that anubis, their dog god of death, weight a person's sins by using a kitchen scale.