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
...what does it even mean, anyway?
simple as
Senpai is an honorific from Japan that you use to address someone of superior placement than yourself, or to a buddy who you join in a group that he/she is a leader of.
Traditional boomerangs fly a straight path, do not return, and do significant damage to targets.
edited 17th May '16 10:34:32 AM by SpaceWolf
This is a signature.
During a class debate about certain someone who ate the Constitution, my teacher raised that the certain someone did not ate the Constitution because the Constitution did not apply to aliens and illegal aliens.
However, in fact, the Fourteenth Amendment specifically used language that indicates all persons, regardless of citizenship, are protected.
'ate the Consititution'??
Some people just can't get enough of it.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Okay, if that wasn't enough imagery for you, how about "wiped his arse with the Constitution"?
Time Warner Cable as a name brand no longer exists, because the company has merged with Charter, which is now also its owner.
I'll be waiting for Time Warner Charter Viacom Disney Google Apple Walmart.
Mweheheh
By then it'll just be called Company.
Abstergo intensifies.
This is a signature.
Oscar Mayer is owned by Kraft Heinz.
Verizon employees are still on strike. DAILY.
There was a sequel written for Casey at the Bat that turns the title character into a Rebuilt Pedestal.
3 microphones forever
So, I had a vague idea that MC Hammer wasn't technically the One-Hit Wonder we think of him as today, but what I didn't know was that his highest placing single on the Billboard charts wasn't even "U Can't Touch This"; It was "Pray", a song I'd never heard until I recently found a used late-80's/early 90's pop-rap compilation that included it. Other fun facts to be gleaned from that Wikipedia page: It was the first authorized Prince sample, and the lyrics use the word "pray" 147 times in five minutes, setting a record for most Title Drops in an American Top 40 hit.
"Just as planned."
Just how much a clean-out of a computer can affect its temperature on some platforms.
I'm on a Haswell processor on this one box and I basically gave it a clean out and the processor temperature's dropped by a whopping 20c.
Contrast that with an old Sandy Bridge I had where it was less than 10c.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Murder is technically illegal.
*slow clap*
simple as
Turkey pardoning comes from Iran-Contra.
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
The statue of Christ the Redeemer was completed in 1931. I thought it was older.
I like to keep my audience riveted.
No longer in use
Octopuses have three hearts.
Now known as Cibryll.
Mweheheh
You can live without a stomach.
If I'm not mistaken, the part that looks like the head is where most of the organs are located.
Officially intimidated
Knowing that there are animals with more than one heart is in itself a big surprise for me. 
edited 21st May '16 9:27:28 AM by MyFinalEdits
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"Senpai" might be added to the English dictionary.