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
GROWWWWWWL
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O_O Wow.
I learnt recently that the "creepy blonde guy" smiling at me at an anime convention on Sunday was Vic Mignogna 
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He sung to me the One Piece opening once...
Haha. I find this humourous.
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Huh. Komodin's from Brooklyn, NY.
Until further notice
*is tempted to make a BROOKLYN RAGE joke*
edited 22nd Jun '12 4:00:55 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
Departed days ahead.
Probably more like Brooklyn Meh if anything.
I guess we could go... wherever we please.
I'm freezing! Send help!
Brooklyin Nyeh?
In Sailor Moon StarS, one of the new Sailor Scouts had an attack called Gentle Uterus.
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
GROWWWWWWL
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Colgate used to be sold in jars. Also, 80% of 10 year old girls in the US go on a diet. 
TLC ripped off Paul Mc Cartney. Well, not really, but he also wrote a song warning against chasing metaphorical waterfalls, back in 1980.
Also, I was aware that Maurice La Marche was involved in The Tick, but I did not expect that one of the voices he did was The Midnight Bomber.
edited 22nd Jun '12 8:33:35 PM by MikeK
Space Wizard
There is apparently a domesticated strain of foxes which, as a result of the breeding, have dropping ears and tails like dogs.
Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.
Green Day ripped off "American Idiot" from a punk band, and ripped off "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from Oasis.
Although, I worked out the second one before the first.
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I learnt that Green Day is still remembered by some people.
I'd forgotten about them for at least a year now.
"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
'80s TV Action Hero
I remember Green Day. I think I have one of their songs lurking on my ipod somewhere.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
I didn`t know that Satsuki was in the OP of Carnival Phantasm until recently..
"Strategy? Spacing? I just keep punching until I hit something." - Sol Badguy
Is that cake frosting?
Fertility testing for humans involves taking hamster eggs and measure how many (human) spermatozoa manage to penetrate them. There is no chance whatsoever of fertilization, of course, but ew.
edited 24th Jun '12 2:26:30 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
I don't know what's "ew" about that, but then again, this kind of stuff is very YMMV.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
ETERNAL
That's... putting a whole new meaning to the French Taunter's words from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
edited 24th Jun '12 2:29:26 PM by Olivetree
"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
Das kann doch nicht sein!
I still remember Green Day, but I forgot what their songs sound like. Hell, I only knew two to begin with.
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
"w00t!" means "we owned other team".
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!
Huh.
Surf Science is actually a needed degree, and not a "Mc Degree" as some suggest.
Until further notice
...This is either stupid, awesome, or so stupid it's awesome.
edited 28th Jun '12 2:18:46 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
How fleeting...
2 things:
1. Lord Spite from World of Quest is also Catfish Stu from iggy arbuckle 2. The most awesome janitor ever just died.
I don’t even know anymore.
Also, the person in the "Sittin' On A Toilet" video is female. Weird...
I don’t even know anymore.