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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

ChicoTheParakeet Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#30301: Jan 23rd 2021 at 3:08:49 AM

Lindsay Ellis is 36 years old. WOW, she looks really young for her age. I hope I'm not coming off as creepy.

Risdio51 The Unknown Pleasure they were talking about from that exit they call Paradise Since: Jun, 2019 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
The Unknown Pleasure they were talking about
#30302: Jan 23rd 2021 at 8:00:44 AM

Joe Shuster (AKA the original designer of Superman) wrote a...erm...strange adult entertainment comic.

Read more about it at your own risk (It's VERY NSFW. Also, a little gross.)

I can't say goodbye to yesterday…
MagmaTeaMerry My Head Is On Fire from A forest somewhere Since: Sep, 2020
My Head Is On Fire
#30303: Jan 23rd 2021 at 8:41:25 AM

My Mom was a terrible cook before she met my Dad. That part, I knew.

What I DIDN'T know was just how terrible of a cook she was. She spent a little bit of money on macaroni and canned ravioli and the rest on clothes. Seriously, the only thing she ate was macaroni and canned ravioli. Her idea of "fancy cooking" was putting ketchup on the canned ravioli. Her diet was so poor that she eventually became sick.

She's a much better cook these days.

My AO3 profile. Let sleeping cats lie and be cute and calming.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#30304: Jan 23rd 2021 at 10:43:26 AM

The French Foreign Legion successfully prevented the Nazis from taking over the Suez Canal.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#30305: Jan 23rd 2021 at 10:43:16 PM

Mike Polk, Jr. officially declared the Factory of Sadness closed a couple of weeks ago after the Browns made this year's playoffs, a little over nine years after his original Factory of Sadness vid was made.

Edited by megarockman on Jan 23rd 2021 at 1:45:35 PM

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#30306: Jan 24th 2021 at 5:20:16 AM

Adders give back birth to live young,where as Grass snakes are the opposite and lay eggs

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#30307: Jan 24th 2021 at 6:29:28 AM

Ian Malcolm was played by Jeff Gloldblum, which means that apparently Jeff Goldblum looked a lot like Mark Ruffalo when he was younger (not that I thought Ian was played by Ruffalo just that he looked a lot like him).

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#30308: Jan 24th 2021 at 7:25:30 AM

More Jurassic Park stuff: the weirdo HUD system when Lex is hacking was actually real.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
Mara999 International Man of Mystery from Grim Up North Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
International Man of Mystery
#30309: Jan 24th 2021 at 11:29:59 AM

Apparently there was one project featuring Danny Devito and John Candy together (if not on-screen), as well as Jeremy Irons among many, many other celebrities of the mid-80's. tongue

Shyhero Unmotivated dyslexic writer. from Sofa Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Unmotivated dyslexic writer.
#30310: Jan 25th 2021 at 6:54:39 PM

I just found out that Worth was Russian.

BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
[Hiatus til March]
#30311: Jan 25th 2021 at 8:02:56 PM

This happens a lot of times that I look up cartoon character voices of a certain age and realise they were mostly this one voice actor or another but it's struck again last week when I went on a bit of a Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! nostalgia trip.

I first heard the theme song after so long and then I'm suddenly hearing Wubbzy's voice as also the same voice of that one bully of a babysitter who kept calling the protagonist a twerp. No far guesses here :p

When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#30312: Jan 25th 2021 at 8:50:10 PM

Something I found out on a wikiwalk on this very site: I vaguely remember Skye Sweetnam for this song, which was kinda in the Teen Pop / Pop Punk vein. This is the kinda music she's making now (with Sumo Cyco). That's like, I dunno, Avril Lavigne starting a metalcore band... and actually being pretty good at it.

Edited by MikeK on Jan 25th 2021 at 9:50:27 AM

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#30313: Jan 25th 2021 at 9:26:17 PM

Construction on the Barack Obama Presidential Center started this month.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#30314: Jan 26th 2021 at 5:02:24 AM

Discord was almost called Wyvern which, I'll be honest, I'm kind of disappointed that it wasn't.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Mara999 International Man of Mystery from Grim Up North Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
International Man of Mystery
#30316: Jan 26th 2021 at 11:12:00 AM

Just found out that the Volvo car is named after a Latin phrase meaning "I roll", which is quite appropriate.

Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
CHOMPION
#30317: Jan 26th 2021 at 4:21:04 PM

Huntsman spiders are not found only in Australia. And here I thought I was safe...

Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#30319: Jan 26th 2021 at 7:08:22 PM

Drew Brees and Philip Rivers have both announced their retirement from the NFL.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#30320: Jan 26th 2021 at 7:42:31 PM

The majority of America’s duck meat comes from Indiana.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
NotSoBadassLongcoat The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24 from People's Democratic Republic of Badassia (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Puppy love
The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
#30321: Jan 27th 2021 at 3:00:24 AM

The Polish word for a henchman or thug, "zbir", is a loanword from French (where it's spelled "sbire").

"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
jouXIII The One Who Knows Many Things from Between the Multiverses (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
The One Who Knows Many Things
#30322: Jan 27th 2021 at 5:34:30 AM

In Kingdom Hearts II, the paintings in Beast's Castle are references to Beauty and the Beast.

I assure you, I'm perfectly trustable person
arimothereindeer Boi from here to eternity, that's where she takes me Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Boi
#30323: Jan 27th 2021 at 5:43:34 PM

Kraftwerk used a Bee Gees themed toy synth made by Mattel in the song Pocket Calculator.

Reindeer in the direction of reindeer
ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#30324: Jan 27th 2021 at 9:13:33 PM

General Petrine in Fire Emblem Heroes is Sae Nijima. Somehow this is hilarious to me.

Edited by ReikoKazama on Jan 28th 2021 at 4:14:19 AM

FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD
TheGeekArtist08 Hello? Hello, hello? from Hurricane, Utah (no not really) Since: Feb, 2020 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Hello? Hello, hello?
#30325: Jan 28th 2021 at 3:24:21 AM

Chester Alan Arthur and Grover Cleveland are in the Thirteen Club, a club/group that is basically trying — and somehow failing — to tempt fate by doing unlucky stuff.

artsy geek | any pronouns | "well, if you're hearing this, then chances are you've made a very poor career choice."

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