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
Mweheheh
872 people worked on Iron Man 3's digital effects.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
The Roman city of Petra, located in modern-day Jordan, had a large, ahead-of-its-time pipe system, a series dams to control flood water(which are being rebuilt), and a luxurious swimming pool with a garden.
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
Madonna has clips of the movie Perfect Blue in the music video for her song "What It Feels Like For A Girl."
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Alan Tudyk voiced all the robots in I Robot.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
Huh, so he was doing voice acting work even before he started working with Disney. Cool.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dude he was in The Wire. Disney did NOT push him into fame right then.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
I know who Alan Tudyk is, bro. I knew him from Suburgatory, and then I found out he was in Firefly and A Knight's Tale. The voice acting thing is a recent gig for him that I'm surprised he's good at.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Ah okay.
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I didn't know that there was a Phantasy Star animation…
Now known as Cibryll.
There is a MARVEL Avengers anime currently airing in Japan, produced by Toei and Walt Disney Japan.
edited 6th May '16 7:45:06 AM by kyun
Having a good time!
Somewhere in the United States of America, there is a woman who thinks mathematical equations are actually a terrorist code. Is it racist to be afraid of Arabic numerals?
edited 7th May '16 5:21:51 PM by TolkienOtaku
Blog link
Mweheheh
The Arctic hare & the snowshoe hare are different animals.
edited 7th May '16 6:04:29 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
I fought the Lore, and the Lore won.
Town Of Salem is addicting. Nothing like being the Mafia's disguiser, bungling into the wrong alias, getting found out half way through and somehow lying your way to the very last 3 people of the game and hanging the player you and your alias have been confiding in since game start. Only then do they realize that they are the last non mafia. And you realize that they're a vampire who was waiting to turn you that very night.
Not dead, just feeling like it.
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
The Stanley Cup is in June of this year. I thought it was in July.
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Ewan Mcgregor made a documentary of a trip that he and his friend made around the world on motorcycles.
10 YEARS
I actually remember seeing that.
simple as
Jer gets all the girls
Same here. It wasn't bad, actually
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
Mweheheh
"Let it swim" is diner lingo for extra sauce.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Jer gets all the girls
Where are these diners where they say these things anyway?
Also, Ethiopia is no longer is a famine or a civil war. Yay! http://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11639148/ethiopia-drought-famine
edited 9th May '16 11:35:19 PM by Murataku
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
DC from the name DC Comics actually stands for "Detective Comics".
So they're called 'Detective Comics Comics'?
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
I think somebody has made note of that before, probably Cinema Sins or something.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Looks up Detective Comics
Nope
edited 10th May '16 12:55:27 PM by Xopher001
...okay, so, I've known for years that the United Arab Emirates import a lot of sand, as a sort of funny "lol, desert countries need to import sand" trivia thing. But I didn't realize before now the actual reason. It's for cement, metal casting and other construction needs because of the massive boom in construction that's being going on, and desert sand is absolutely rubbish for that purpose.
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!