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
Then how does Van cats swim in it?
"Just as planned."
Doctor Who started exactly a day after Kennedy was assassinated.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Mweheheh
Stingray Music has a channel devoted to rap songs with food in the title.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Jer gets all the girls
The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Cake Book has its own Wikipedia article. It mentions the train cake specifically.
Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.
Shania Twain is finally releasing new music.
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edited 4th Jun '17 11:27:13 AM by Theatre_Maven_3695
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Ukraine also uses a three finger salute during its independence movement, but its currently used by a Nazi party.
With a lot of good luck, I imagine.
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
Mweheheh
Last month, someone on this forum (who's now banned) made a thread arguing that the Living Toys trope was offensive to people who believe toys really are alive.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Officially intimidated
Gonzalo Higuaín was born in France, not Argentina.
135 - 169 - 273 - 191 - 188 - 230 - 300
Mweheheh
My best friend is descended from the perpetrator of the Beardmore Relics hoax.
There's a borough in New Jersey called Deal.
There are two dinosaurs that the paleontologists who discovered them originally thought were owls.
Miyamoto Musashi
Moso Calibration's absolute banger "Geki Yaba Bokka-n!!" is, in fact, an anime ending. Specifically, ending 2 of Time Bokan 24, a re-imagining of the original Time Bokan.
EDIT: Time Bokan 24 does, in fact, have its own page.
edited 6th Jun '17 10:58:48 PM by ReikoKazama
FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Fate/Samurai Remnant
Apparently house insurance does cover a meteor impact on a house.
Hi
Today happens to be Ai Nonaka's birthday, and I discovered that by googling out of curiosity shortly after watching her last year's birthday celebration video in her Youtube channel.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
There was a musical Spongebob thermometer.
Mweheheh
Lionfish sleep upside down.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
That TV Tropes had a forum.
Welcome!
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder was the brother-in-law of Vivian Malone Jones, one of the first two African-American students to enroll at the University of Alabama after it was desegregated in 1963.
Lovely Legilimens
This Very Wiki has its own page.
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
One of the factories in town pays out on Thursdays. So the horrors of working on payday at McDonalds last for two days here
Sir Christopher Lee dabbled in symphonic metal.
edited 8th Jun '17 6:57:32 PM by Yinyang107
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A very delicious thing. 
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.