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
Have you ever seen one of the huge walruses in person? They will fuck your shit up if you get near them. Like a very lazy grizzly.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.They make me think of hippos. Looking docile and harmless from a distance, then turning into a MURDER MACHINE if you tick it off.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Marilyn Manson is the name of a band and not just a person.
Also, this probably doesn't count, but I recently found out that TV Tropes Twitter mentioned
me in a tweet. Cool.
edited 24th Nov '10 12:20:09 PM by CompassionateSadist
SimCity was partly inspired by the story in The Cyberiad that reminded me of SimCity when I read it. ![]()
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It DOES!
Also: you don't have to Ctrl-Alt-Del, you can get to Task Manager by right clicking on the taskbar and selecting it!
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Or you could use Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
If this kid lived he could have united Aragon, Portugal, and Castille
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Poland really is Europe's Butt Monkey. No wonder they take revenge by dominating Wikipedia.
J Dilla (one of the greatest hip-hop producers ever) died on the same day (not year) I was born.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!There are not one, but two programming languages which can be/are Klingon.
Appropriately, one is Perl.
edited 28th Nov '10 6:36:21 PM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.1580-1640, right?
And it was because Philip II respected the Portuguese rights, while his weaker successors and their validos didn't.
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.Heh... I meant the keywords and junk, but that's just so boring, you know.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.Something I didn't know:
There is at least one case of Paedo hyenas...
"A male spotted hyena which attempted to mate with a female which succeeded in driving it off, eventually turned to its ten-month-old cub, repeatedly mounting it and ejaculating on it. The cub sometimes ignored this and sometimes struggled 'slightly as if in play'. The mother did not intervene."
By the powers invested in me by tabloid-reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!Bonobos have paedos. All the time.
Then again, sex is like life for bonobos. Gotta start them early!
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

Seals are carnivorans. Carnivora -> Caniformia -> Arctoidea -> Pinnipedia (Seals and walruses).
Of course, they're more closely related to bears than cats, but still.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."