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
In the name of being honest
Rice cookers work using a magnet that loses strength when its temperature exceeds 100° C.
Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)
The word "droid" is trademarked by Star Wars, which is why you never see it in other sci-fi works (they're only allowed to write "android" or some other variant).
Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
The popularity of sports that have significant risks of head trauma, most notably football but also to a lesser extent soccer and hockey, is at risk due to insurance companies increasingly refusing to cover those injuries, since that means leagues (most notably youth ones) can't operate.
It is illegal to dictate in one's will that the estate's money be burned.
Edited by megarockman on Jan 22nd 2019 at 1:34:55 PM
Mweheheh
A defictionalized version of Bold & Brash is available on Amazon.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Jan 22nd 2019 at 5:34:56 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Harry Potter: Scots Edition is a real thing.
Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
Mweheheh
Tarsiers have scaly nipples.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Amazon Prime subscribers also get Twitch Prime with it, which is how I got Pikuniku early for free.
Mweheheh
Tony Rosato (Former SCTV and SNL cast member, as well as the second person to voice Luigi) is dead.
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
In response to Netflix's price hike, Hulu is lowering its rates on all of its plans (could that be the money Netflix is taking?).
I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!
Mweheheh
A man got busted for child porn because he drew Rule 34 of The Simpsons.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
(ON INDEFINITE HIATUS)
"Despite its name, Worcestershire sauce was originally an Indian recipe, brought back to Britain by Lord Marcus Sandys, ex-Governor of Bengal. One day in 1835, Sandys appeared in a prospering chemist's emporium in Worcestershire, England, and asked the chemist to create a batch of sauce from his recipe."
She/they. Hirrus Clutumnus is my comfort character
Meito Anizawa, Anime Tenchou
The Japanese Zero Wing manual had a monthly giveaway where you could win various Zero Wing merch (specifically, a t-shirt, phone card or keyring)
"Leftover items still have value!"
I have seen the amateur, and it is me.
A social media manager for the Cleveland Browns tried to show off the team's social media presence and wound up accidentally broadcasting a wall of porn tweets for a good 20 minutes. (It seems said manager failed to realize "Dawg Pound" shortens to something that's decidedly Not Safe for Work.)
Source: This ESPN report by Seth Wickersham
Pepsi once aired a commercial saying it would sell the winner a whole jet for 7 million codes. A teenager who was very adept at business tactics discovered an easier way to get it and sent in 15 codes with the rest in finances, but Pepsi replied that the jet was only meant to be a joke for the sake of embellishment in the commercial. Because he already promised five investors with the money, this went to court and found that in no way did the commercial make it clear that selling the jet was a joke. Whoops.
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Oof.
I knew that the titular character of I. M. Meen was voiced by Peter Berkrot, but I found out just now that Ophelia Chill from the sequel Chill Manor was voiced by Chloe Leamon, who has a very small resume on IMDb.
Mweheheh
Noam Chomsky is still alive.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
In the name of being honest
If you die in a depressive relapse, you die in real life.
Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)
Heinz is making ketchup caviar... Yuck.
Disasturbator
> If you die in a depressive relapse, you die in real life.
That's kind of obvious
New theme music also a box
Mweheheh
Autistic people can’t process endocannabinoids.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Having a good time!
Interesting.
There's a youth movement in Russia that spritzes water on the hands of people smoking in public. To get them to stop. Methinks they might be missing a big part of tobacco addiction.
Blog link
my current job
Methinks that's just gonna push the smokers to private areas, like homes, smoking lounges, or secluded alleyways.
So does that mean I (an Aspie) am biologically incapable of getting a cannabis-induced high, or that a cannabis high for me would be different from a neurotypical person?
Mweheheh
Endocannabinoids aren’t psychoactive.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Jan 25th 2019 at 9:29:52 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_King_Farris
Even though I thought she died years ago, apparently Martin Luther King's sister is still alive. And sadly, Martin Luther King's younger brother died a year after him. From the sounds of it, it might have been from the stress of losing his brother. Also King's younger brother children have died young as well. I am kind of happy she is still alive, but sad that she outlived both of her brothers. It again makes one realize we still have people who lived during segregation today. On the other hand, it again makes me sad that they are getting older and older.