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.
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
Neanderthals didn’t have chins.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.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.There was more than one Windows pinball game.
"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"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.
Smoking tobacco through a bong produces fewer carcinogens than other methods.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.The English dub actors for Hiro and Ichigo from Darling In The Franxx ... are married.
Another Shaun the Sheep movie is coming out next year.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.The Wikipedia page for the mobile office has a picture that's...more literal◊ than I had anticipated.
The orangutan has the most human-like teeth of any animal.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Eddy Murphy has like 10 kids from different marriages
New theme music also a boxFlorida’s beaches attract more annual visitors than all of America’s national parks & theme parks combined.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Howard Shore, who composed the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings, also did the music for a Chinese mobile game.
Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)Steve Irwin’s daughter Bindi has a music career.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.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).
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"...
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.I never knew that dogs could snore.
I like to keep my audience riveted.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 characterSure I did. I've had three.
I like to keep my audience riveted.The word "lackadaisical" means 'lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.'
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Ray Harryhausen had a cameo in Elf.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.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)
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!