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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

WillyFourEyes I have seen the amateur, and it is me. (Old Enough To Drive) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
#27451: Dec 18th 2018 at 6:13:08 AM

Soulja Boy is now in the business of reselling dodgy game consoles (i.e. taking Chinese Shoddy Knockoff Products, putting his name on them, and selling them at a discount).

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mr_Madman Almighty Janitor from Eagleland, World of Badass Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: Brony
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#27455: Dec 19th 2018 at 6:35:31 AM

Je suis means "I am" in French.

I've always wondered what that means, because I saw it on almost every French excerpts. XD

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
TroperNo9001 Braids From S286 Not Included from ZDR for now Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
Braids From S286 Not Included
#27456: Dec 19th 2018 at 7:03:42 AM

There was more than one Windows pinball game.

"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"
megarockman from Sixth Borough Since: Apr, 2010
#27457: Dec 19th 2018 at 7:18:18 AM

Saturn's rings are estimated to be only 100 million years old and are estimated to disappear entirely in 300 million years. For reference, the planets in our solar system are around 4 billion years old.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#27458: Dec 19th 2018 at 7:55:18 AM

Smoking tobacco through a bong produces fewer carcinogens than other methods.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#27459: Dec 19th 2018 at 8:29:16 AM

The English dub actors for Hiro and Ichigo from Darling In The Franxx ... are married.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#27460: Dec 20th 2018 at 8:36:16 AM

Another Shaun the Sheep movie is coming out next year.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
megarockman from Sixth Borough Since: Apr, 2010
#27461: Dec 20th 2018 at 10:49:29 AM

The Wikipedia page for the mobile office has a picture that's...more literal than I had anticipated.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#27462: Dec 21st 2018 at 6:55:11 AM

The orangutan has the most human-like teeth of any animal.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from Second Star to the left (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Disasturbator
#27463: Dec 21st 2018 at 6:56:29 AM

Eddy Murphy has like 10 kids from different marriages

New theme music also a box
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#27464: Dec 21st 2018 at 8:20:00 AM

Florida’s beaches attract more annual visitors than all of America’s national parks & theme parks combined.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
eagleoftheninth In the name of being honest from the Street without Joy Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Mweheheh
#27466: Dec 21st 2018 at 11:21:34 AM

Steve Irwin’s daughter Bindi has a music career.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#27467: Dec 21st 2018 at 12:48:25 PM

Tobin Sprout from Guided by Voices wrote a childrens' book. I noticed his name on the cover of a kids book one of my customers was buying, and wondered if it was the same guy, so I went home and looked it up (Tobin Sprout is a pretty unusual name, but it still could have been a case of Names The Same I guess).

SparkPlugTheTroper from here to there (Captain) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
#27468: Dec 21st 2018 at 2:26:39 PM

Mattel is legitimately considering making a Barbie toy featuring a same-sex wedding.

Here come the anti-LGBT Moral Guardians, carrying some torches and pitchforks as they form an angry mob approaching Mattel's headquarters to accuse them of "potentially corrupting our poor children"...

WilliamRadarStorm my current job from News Station NT Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
my current job
#27469: Dec 21st 2018 at 2:29:09 PM

And don't forget buying a bunch of Barbies solely for the purpose of putting them in a protest bonfire. If they did it for Nike, there's a good chance they'll do it for Barbie.

The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
Demetrios Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
TheWhiteWolf (ON INDEFINITE HIATUS) from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
(ON INDEFINITE HIATUS)
#27471: Dec 21st 2018 at 6:32:56 PM

[up] I'm assuming you never owned a dog

I never knew that Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker

Edited by TheWhiteWolf on Dec 21st 2018 at 9:33:06 AM

She/they. Hirrus Clutumnus is my comfort character
Demetrios Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#27473: Dec 21st 2018 at 10:52:34 PM

The word "lackadaisical" means 'lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.'

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Mweheheh from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
eagleoftheninth In the name of being honest from the Street without Joy Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
In the name of being honest
#27475: Dec 22nd 2018 at 5:04:52 PM

The Gobi desert bear is a critically endangered brown bear subspecies found in Mongolia, with only 30 adults remaining.

Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)

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