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
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.)
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.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!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.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 EmeraldMore Jurassic Park stuff: the weirdo HUD system when Lex is hacking was actually real
.
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 saviorSomething 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
Construction on the Barack Obama Presidential Center started this month.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Discord was almost called Wyvern which, I'll be honest, I'm kind of disappointed that it wasn't.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldThere's also a Shenandoah River in New Zealand.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!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 LewisIn Kingdom Hearts II, the paintings in Beast's Castle are references to Beauty and the Beast.
I assure you, I'm perfectly trustable personGeneral 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
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Lindsay Ellis is 36 years old. WOW, she looks really young for her age. I hope I'm not coming off as creepy.