Things you didn't know until very recently...

Apparently since last year there have been new books in the Basil of Baker Street series. Or in America better known by the movie, "The Great Mouse Detective". A new author is making the books, since its original one died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_of_Baker_Street

Apparently Sans was announced for Smash Ultimate.

Wasn't he just an alternate costume for Mii Gunner?

I know.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Sep 30th 2019 at 10:02:31 PM

Yes.

The art challenge Inktober is 10 years old.

Yeah, I was already skeptical about the actual Sans being present, eben though many websites were enthusiastically talking about it. Hence the "apparently".

It's a bit tragic that my most desired character didn't join in, but it's understandable: Not EVERYONE can be here after all.

The father of Satoru Iwata opposed his son's idea of choosing to study electronics (and eventually gaming design). Iwata says that the two didn't talk to each other during a year. Ouch.

J.Pearl, a.k.a History's Yijeong, was a co-producer for Ddaeng. Man... I already love that song but knowing a (former because History unfortunately disbanded in 2017) member of one of my favourite underrated groups worked on it? All of my yes. History deserved so much better I'm still salty

The barn owl is endangered in Ontario.

Nintendo Switches don't require being hooked up online to get firmware updates. All you need is a game. It contains the updates itself.

Edit:

I'm pretty sure the 3DS requires internet access to update certain games,

Edited by Pichu-kun on Oct 2nd 2019 at 1:57:24 AM

PSP does that too, and I think so did the 3DS.

I imagine many consoles built with firmware-updating in mind have this feature, since after all, not everyone has easy internet access.

When Fantasia had it's first premiere in 1940 proceeds went to towards a charity for London as it was being bombed at the time

The Wii too, I believe. Out of the 20 Wii games I played, 14 asked me to "update" the system so I could play them. Not sure if that's the same thing.

I am not only missing the Gnome Real Velo skin, but the Light and Wind Elemental wheels and their corresponding Gem paint jobs (Yellow and White). And guess what? None of them have shown in the damn Pit Stop.

Apparently our taste buds change every two weeks, this is why we enjoy certain foods when we're older but hate them when we're younger. This shift is apparently noticeable in your 20's.

There's a fourth V-Rally game and it came out last year

The Australian Cobberdog is an attempt at making Labradoodles into a legitimate breed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_milk

Almond milk has been a thing since the middle ages, especially since dairy milk couldn't be preserved that long.

The symbol "?!" is apparently called an interrobang.

Only if they're combined, like this: ‽

More works need to use interrobangs.

And I have just learned about the existence of such a sign. I'm so behind the times...

Cat shows allow traditional Persians now. They banned them for years for some inane reason.

Russian Blues have black noses and mauve paws. I knew about them having green eyes, but I didn't know there were other physical traits to the breed.

Google Books allows you to preview a lot of books and read public-domain books. That's a neat feature. I thought it was a paid service.

Feral and stray dogs leave their mother (or are kicked out by their mother) between four and six months. This is much younger than gray wolves, who leave between 1 and 2 years. I'm surprised that dogs leave so young. They are still puppies at that age.

Edited by Pichu-kun on Oct 4th 2019 at 12:39:45 PM

This isn't exactly recent, but it took an embarrassing amount of time to figure out so I'm counting it as in the correct spirit

"Duty Roulette: Leveling" in Final Fantasy XIV isn't "the roulette you queue into for the purpose of leveling up", it's "the roulette filled with leveling content (i.e. content which has never been endgame)".

The fact that it gives the second-highest EXP reward is unrelated.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Oct 5th 2019 at 7:33:12 AM

Gandhi was fairly sympathetic towards Hitler.