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
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DO EEEET
The Olympic torch passes near my house on Sat 30 June.
Which is tomorrow!
Until further notice
Quick! Tackle the runner and extinguish the torch!note
edited 29th Jun '12 9:13:00 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
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x3 fellow Layton fan WHOO!
Das kann doch nicht sein!
The girl in our group in our dorm is Half-Spanish. Due to this, she is torn whom she root for in the Final of the European Football Championship: Spain, because of her heritage or Italy, because they play great. It seems that she will root for Italy, though.
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
Sneering Imperialist
The highest-scoring non-German fighter ace in history is a Finn. Astonishingly, the only fire he ever received was from a friendly AA gun.
edited 1st Jul '12 5:44:48 AM by pagad
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
I knew about that guy, but I didn't know he was born in the same town where I'm from.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
GROWWWWWWL
The longest word in the human language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I know, I know, apparently that's old. But I only found out the other day 
Space Wizard
There was a Giant Beaver, measuring 2.4m in lenght.
How fleeting...
Making my sim fulfill requirements to eat ambrosia was a fucking waste of time.
holy shit. That's a long beaver.
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Amanda Winn Lee and Wendee Lee are two separate people and voiced both main Heavy Blade females in the early part of the Dot Hack saga.
edited 3rd Jul '12 4:41:41 PM by Enzeru
The red part of a strawberry is not the fruit, but rather the small seed-like parts are the actual fruit.
Shut up!
I bet Neelix was involved...
Ha ha! Am I the only one who got that joke? :D
Fear is a superpower.
'80s TV Action Hero
Apparently...![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
The Japanese version of Super Mario Sunshine had the same English voice-acting that the rest of the world got, just with Japanese subtitles.
...somehow I assumed they dubbed them in Japanese over there, but I guess not.
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!
Pixar's latest movie, Brave, was co-directed by Steve Purcell of "Sam & Max: Freelance Police" fame.
—R.J.
I didn't know that. I now need to see this movie very, very badly.
Indecisive pumpkin
How
to
make
these
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edited 5th Jul '12 3:53:16 PM by Haldo
‽‽‽‽ ^These are interrobangs. Love them. Learn them. Use them.
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It's
very hard
to remember
Just how sharp the end of this
◊ sort of Potato Peeler can be. Ow.
How fleeting...
Tyler James Williams has not one but two younger brothers
I don’t even know anymore.
ETERNAL
I'm competent enough at Total War that I can manage a close defeat in a 2v2 with expert difficulty bots and completely even armies (as in, all same unit structure.), whilst still staying for the most part of the battle in a Spanish Tercio formation.
"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
How fleeting...
There's an episode of Criminal Minds called "The Uncanny Valley". No, I'm not kidding.
I don’t even know anymore.
Ahr river
I wouldn't expect you to. It's a name outside of tropedom that's rather common.
Read my stories!
Yikes! Now my friend Jose actually likes the numa numa guy. I really need to introduce him to Smosh.
I don’t even know anymore.