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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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Hey guys...and gals...I was just browsing through an XKCD strip and ended up learning that Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swimming rabbit.

Courtesy link...

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

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#25801: Jan 23rd 2018 at 4:11:42 PM

Also of note, Ralph Bakshi supervised the animation.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#25802: Jan 23rd 2018 at 4:47:33 PM

In 2000, ABBA declined a $1 billion offer to reunite for a 100-stop tour.

edited 23rd Jan '18 4:47:46 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#25803: Jan 23rd 2018 at 5:51:32 PM

That's a pretty neat offer, even if you have to split it between the 4 members (well, and a pretty large staff to organise the tour, I suppose, if that's not included in the offer). A lot of winnings to be taken. The fans definitely have dreams about this sort of tour, and would thank them for the music.

Considering the circumstances around the band's break-up, though I can get why they wouldn't want to take a chance on themselves again. Knowing them, it might be pretty hard for some of them to tolerate each other through that tour without crying for their mothers or something, when the emergency signals start to sound. It would be a sort of final battleground for the factions within the group. The whole thing would just slip through their fingers.

Sorry.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#25804: Jan 23rd 2018 at 6:05:03 PM

[up] I’m surprised you didn’t try to sneak “Money, Money, Money” in there.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#25805: Jan 23rd 2018 at 6:12:27 PM

My conscience got the better of my base instincts. Otherwise that post would've been a bit longer.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
TroperNo9001 Dragon in Waiting from the Dollhouse (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: I turn to stone when you are gone
Dragon in Waiting
#25806: Jan 23rd 2018 at 6:23:42 PM

It's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Norway because the body would be contaminated by the Spanish flu from the 11 corpses buried in the permafrost. If a person is about to die, then they're flown out of the town to Oslo to live their last moments. But if they die suddenly...

Still waiting for someone to break him free...
kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#25807: Jan 23rd 2018 at 8:08:21 PM

In Sweden you have to collect and fill out a form if you ever want to have sex with somebody.

edited 23rd Jan '18 8:08:35 PM by kyun

BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#25808: Jan 24th 2018 at 2:14:25 AM

That's not true. The new law says that if there's no active consent, it's treated as rape. If both parties say out loud that they want it, that's enough. The stuff about requiring written consent looks like a fairly deliberate misunderstanding by the right-wing press.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#25809: Jan 24th 2018 at 5:14:49 AM

Kinda like how Canada’s law against intentionally misgendering people got misrepresented as “you’ll go to jail for using the wrong pronouns, even if you have no prior indication of that person’s preferences”.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#25810: Jan 24th 2018 at 10:21:28 AM

The word "spurious" has a stronger meaning than I thought. Where I thought it meant more like "dubious" or "an argument that has a superficial sense but has reasonable room for doubt", the dictionary indicates it's an outright falsehood.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#25811: Jan 24th 2018 at 10:54:41 AM

The American judiciary system has no observation for human life-spans when calculating the length of a sentence. A sentence can extend way past your death.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
MyFinalEdits Delete message from Parts Unknown (Spin-off Series) Relationship Status: Cast away
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#25813: Jan 24th 2018 at 12:52:52 PM

Netflix has a net worth of 100 billion dollars. surprised

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TolkienOtaku Having a good time! from Utah Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Having a good time!
#25814: Jan 24th 2018 at 3:54:51 PM

A neighbor older than my father (I specify because we have very few of those) had a heart attack five years ago and only found out two weeks ago.

Blog link
kyun Since: Dec, 2010
SparkPlugTheTroper from here to there (Captain) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#25816: Jan 24th 2018 at 7:03:27 PM

I completely lost my interest in Netflix for some reason, and as a result I never watch anything on Netflix nowadays.

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#25817: Jan 24th 2018 at 7:06:50 PM

They have 30 new original anime titles in this year alone. It's gonna be REALLY HARD for me not to buy their ever-rising monthly fees.

ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#25818: Jan 24th 2018 at 10:31:37 PM

Miss A disbanded late last year. I thought they were still on hiatus and that after Min left JYP would eventually try to continue Fei and Suzy as a duo a la 15& - who themselves are still in the dungeon - but apparently JYP does not like female duos.

FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#25819: Jan 25th 2018 at 11:58:11 AM

I've been listening to van Canto's rock opera Voices of Fire for a year, and only just learned that the narrator is John Rhys-Davies.

edited 25th Jan '18 11:58:33 AM by Yinyang107

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
SparkPlugTheTroper from here to there (Captain) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#25822: Jan 26th 2018 at 10:35:34 AM

[up] I thought the folks over at Studio Ghibli didn't like to do sequels? It would be kinda cool to see them make a sequel to Ponyo, though.

The Fox Movies channels in Southeast Asia air Disney movies, and have been doing so before Disney's recent acquisition of Fox in December 2017, if this Fox Family Movies continuity from the summer of 2017 is any indication.

edited 26th Jan '18 11:26:47 AM by SparkPlugTheTroper

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#25823: Jan 26th 2018 at 11:20:53 PM

I just learned that Tajikistan is a country

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SparkPlugTheTroper from here to there (Captain) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#25824: Jan 27th 2018 at 6:28:25 AM

[up] I've pretty much memorized all of my countries, or at the very least I've recognized what continents they're from. That way, I can at least have an idea of what part of the world it's from should I forget it exists (for example, say that I forget Comoros is a country. If someone suddenly reminded me of it, then the first thing I would think to myself would probably be "Comoros? Oh, that's in Africa, isn't it?").

According to an episode of Oddity Archive, interactive TV was a thing once.

edited 27th Jan '18 8:45:51 AM by SparkPlugTheTroper

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#25825: Jan 27th 2018 at 6:48:19 AM

The Greenland shark is the second-largest macropredatory shark (after the great white).

Naked mole rats may be theoretically immortal.

The term “leviathan” is older than The Bible.

edited 27th Jan '18 6:56:35 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

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