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
Anime voice actor Matt Mercer was planning to go to school for animation. Whichever seasoned animation veteran he saught advice from, they all adamantly told him NOT TO, which led to him going into voice-acting instead.
@Xopher: Yes, it would, which is why I found it interesting. I think the subject agreeing to it might make you avoid punishment, but I'll have to look further into it before I can confirm that.
EDIT: No, it does not. So all hypnosis for entertainment is banned.
edited 3rd Sep '14 1:07:25 PM by Lemurian
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!
New York has more potatoes..... than Idaho!
Mweheheh
My local grocery store has brought back Count Chocula and Franken Berry… but not Boo Berry.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Mad Scientist Wannabe
Thuy Trang had a small role in The Crow.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
That when Microsoft says that all support for Windows XP has ended it doesn't actually mean that you won't be spending tons of time downloading hundreds of megabytes of updates for it. Because that's what my baby netbook is doing right now, bless it's little Atom processor cotton socks. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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I was just thinking about that! :D I'm on my brother's Windows 7 netbook, which just had an automatic update, and I started thinking about whether there'd still be XP updates. If you don't want any more updates, you may be able to turn them off (I was just looking to see what OS this netbook has, and noticed an option to to turn automatic updates on or off in the System control panel thingy).
Mweheheh
The roadrunner is a semi-flightless cuckoo.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Rite Aid, Jo-Ann Fabrics, Neiman Marcus, and Petco are all owned by the same equity firm.
'80s TV Action Hero
Many American fire departments have separate units for fire-fighting and search and rescue.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
I heard the news about her being in the hospital a long while ago! .... so I'm not shocked, but it's really sad.
Hey there! Having fun?
Teen pregnancy has fallen 44% since 1999.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
The version of Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight" that I've heard (the one where the chorus goes "tonight I'm lovin' you") is the censored version. The original uses a...much more explicit version of that verb in the chorus.
"We're home, Chewie."
Betty Boop was originally supposed to be African-American. In fact, she really was, in her first animated appearance. The model she was referenced from was too.
Mweheheh
Cee Lo Green's reality show was cancelled after he went on a Twitter rant about how it's not rape if the woman doesn't remember it.
Please don't thump, please don't thump…
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
It's times like these I wonder how Family Guy gets away with the kind of humor it has.
Mad Scientist Wannabe
No, Betty Boop was a dog in her first appearance.
Also, Robert E Howard killed himself when he was only 30.
edited 4th Sep '14 9:00:42 PM by maxwellelvis
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
Uniocular
Oh god damn it. I really liked Cee-Lo. :(
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
I actually knew about that. ... and I actually read that manga.
Elton John is still alive.
I fought the Lore, and the Lore won.
According to the Maya long count it is currently 13.0.1.13.3 GMT.
Not dead, just feeling like it.
When the Turks control Abbasid they left everything to ruins, which resulted in decimation of the population. Then the Mongols attack and killed off even more.
That Prozac is used for treating OCD along with depression.
HAIL 2 U!!!