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
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Investigation Discovery is the most popular cable network among women aged 25-54.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Interesting.
The iceberg stock photo used in the iceberg explained videos is actually composed of two pictures; the bottom part is actually a flipped image of another iceberg. Explained in this video, if you could go pass through the tongue-in-cheek explanation of the iceberg:
Miyamoto Musashi
Hazel is not in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
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That infamous Austrian town is now named Fugging (apparently pronounced the same, just sans memetic road sign).
Medieval Times was first started in Orlando, Florida.
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
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Naked mole rats have different dialects.
Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.
For the longest time I thought the e in kitsune was silent. I funnily enough found out it wasn't while browsing our page on the creatures.
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢
International Man of Mystery
Apparently there was a brief period in the 80's when Citadel Miniatures (Games Workshop) made official miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons. Many of the minis look pretty nice for the period and this makes me wonder how things might have turned out differently if they had been allowed to keep the license.
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Furries
◊ were featured in the 2008 Guinness World Records annual.
The Unknown Pleasure they were talking about
King Dedede's outfit is based off Rōnin garb.
I can't say goodbye to yesterday…
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Kind of weird when you consider Meta Knight fits the typical Ronin character more than Dedede.
"Hope for our world, tragedy for another."
"I'm the darned greatest ronin Cappytown's ever seen! Heh heh heh heh heh!"
You Could Use some Imagination
February is Black History Month.
I know, I know I should know this and, to be fair, I knew there is a Black History Month I just didn't know what month it was. I don't know what month is Pride Month either.
"Hope for our world, tragedy for another."
The Superman serial villain the Spider-Lady was based off the Scarlet Widow from the radio dramas.
The Protomen enhanced my life.
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The ugly stepsister in Sherk is transgender.
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re: Black History Month is in February
Huh, that's pretty neat.
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I believe Pride Month is June.
Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.
Thought it was July.
Let's split the difference and give them both.
Somebody just uploaded the first episode of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction on YouTube. 
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Glenn Beck is Mormon.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.The metallic outer layer of the Statue of Liberty is actually less than an inch thick.
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
Double-bladed axes were never used in combat; the most famous of them, the labrys of Crete, was purely for ritual purposes.
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Rupert Murdoch is Australian, not American.
Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.
You Could Use some Imagination
The Gatekeeper, a minor NPC in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, won a popularity poll of every character in the Fire Emblem series and is now going to be made a unit in Fire Emblem Heroes.
Yes, really.
"Hope for our world, tragedy for another."
People in the Tang Dynasty didn't eat beef because of the bull's value as a working animal.
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.