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
Apparently Team Aqua and Team Magma from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire were based on an actual ecological debate that happened in Japan.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldPresumably, knowing Ruby and Sapphire, something along the lines of the land being more important or the sea being more important.
My musician page22/7 is not the same value as pi. I maybe forgot so when I first learned of it but my brain believed so for quite some time.
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior22/7 is a very common approximation of pi, only accurate to two decimal places.
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jan 19th 2021 at 11:37:27 AM
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Python (the programming language) was named after Monty Python, not the snake.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.There's a video game called Darkened Skye. I'm... just gonna post the synopsis from the game's Wikipedia article
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Edited by FawfulCrump on Jan 20th 2021 at 4:58:27 AM
We have a page for Darkened Skye, too.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Why does Wikipedia feel the need to specifically mention that she doesn’t use firearms. Like, neither does Link (well, I guess you could technically count the fire rod as a firearm) and nobody feels the need to mention it.
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Yeah on rereading what an irrational number was and seeing pi as an example, I then compared it with 22/7 on my calculator and that's how I realised they weren't the same.
Another one that's more like "Things you didn't remember until very recently." Tom Cruise was the star of Minority Report. I thought it was Colin Farrell for some reason.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!Kamala Harris has a Useful Notes page.
Granted, I expected it, but like.
Huh.
artsy geek | any pronouns | "well, if you're hearing this, then chances are you've made a very poor career choice."Another Wikirby thing. They list us as an external link
on their Smash Ultimate page.
Hey, that's what the little video game style information thing they show you while it loads said.
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Not only does the United Arab Emirates have a space agency, the chair of said agency is this woman.
She is also one of nine female ministers currently in the UAE cabinet.
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