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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Festivusphobia: The fear of dumb holidays made up by unfunny sitcoms
I see you take the trope name Seinfeld Is Unfunny very seriously.
Apparently, there have been ongoing earthquakes in Italy this year.
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"
Insert cool sentence here
I can confirm that statement. In facy, an earthquake happened during my birthday.
The "barometer" term comes for the greek words "βάρος" (bàros), weight, and "μέτρον" (métron), measure.
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
After a long time of saying how much I hate country music with only a few exceptions, I recently realized there's actually quite a few more exceptions than I thought. I rather like Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, a couple Band Perry songs, I absolutely ADORE "Girl in a Country Song". It seems like country music that I like pretty much has to be made by women. And potentially involves murder.
"We're home, Chewie."
I'm sure you'd appreciate it even more if you realized that it's mocking "bro-country".
Frog roars.
If you savor your eardrums don't look up a video of it.
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
What is? "Girl In A Country Song"? I mean I know that, it's part of the reason I love it. One of the ways to my heart for a country song is, apparently, to make fun of other country songs. (To a lesser extent that also applies to the song "Merry Go Round." It's not making fun of bro-country, instead it kinda makes fun of, like, romanticization of small-town life, but the principle is similar.)
The Rhyperior Antichrist
Apparently, Adolf Hitler had only 1 testicle.
"People always say that you should follow your dreams... so I'm going back to bed" -me
Dammit, it's only going to hurt him half as much once I invent my time machine.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
I just found out that putting my avatar in a Google image search searches for "Human Behavior". Go figure.
A popular Nashville songwriter has a summer home only about an hour from me.
The FBI haven't changed much, as a vocal amount polls pro-Trump. Probably explains how NASA scores relatively high for diversity, because her brothers collectively drag the score down.
Let's see, what did I learn recently?
An astronaut standing on a space station that uses Centrifugal Gravity is only under a single force (using a simplified model that doesn't count the weight of air or whatever): The normal force of the floor pushing "up" on his or her feet.
Also, an object in orbit is technically falling.
Also, there is hypothetically a speed at which you can orbit a body at any altitude, as long as you don't encounter air resistance or hit something. So if you were moving fast enough, you could technically orbit, say, the moon, at an altitude of ten feet as long as you didn't hit anything like the side of a hill/mountain. You'd have to be moving really fast, though.
...Also a speck of dust on the edge of a hard disk rotating at a rate of 7200 RPM is under a shitload of gs' worth of acceleration. Like, enough to kill a human many, many times over.
Lactose is a form of sugar. My biology class never covered it when they covered carbohydrates. 
Should have realized that with the '-ose' suffix.
edited 4th Nov '16 12:16:57 PM by WillDeRegio
Yeah, not as many people know that as they should.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Mweheheh
A shipwreck that killed more people than the Titanic occured the same month Lincoln was murdered.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Why the hell does the FBI like Trump? He's a threat to national sec- wait that's the NSA.
edited 5th Nov '16 3:29:36 PM by Xopher001
Apparently, my local mall is planning to rip out the food court for a Petsmart.
The food court was never full. Even in The '90s when the mall was flourishing, it only had an A&W, Mrs. Field's, Subway, and Chinese eatery, of which only the last is still in business.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford believes that the Apollo moon landings are fake and that ISIS doesn't exist. I'm not even kidding, he legitimately thinks that ISIS is not real, that all the fighting and all the murders done by ISIS are not real, that all of the videos of them killing people are fake and edited with "soundtracks" as he put it, and that it's all some kind of shadowy world government conspiracy.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Ah, the Nineties: retroactively sucking even more thanks to Alex Jones fans.
edited 6th Nov '16 12:00:25 AM by golgothasArisen
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
You should hear some of the crazy stuff Adam Baldwin from Firefly believes: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Adam_Baldwin
Fits in Heavy's pocket!
You can get Christmas bonbons where the novelty is a bottle opener, or a tape measure, or a tiny shoehorn. That's incredibly boring, isn't it??
The last thing you hear before an unstoppable juggernaut bisects you with a minigun.
@Xopher: Comey is a partisan idiot. Party above people.
The SAT have some stupid questions that are in no way predictive of one's college performance. Thus it was an aptitude test, then an achievement test, but everyone was still using it as the former, so it became nothing.
When Chinese New Year comes around, it will be the Year of the Fire Rooster.
I sit in anxiety at the inevitable sophomoric humor.
edited 31st Oct '16 8:49:18 PM by WillDeRegio