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
There was a lungfish
that not only survived the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, but also lasted until around 10 million years after the dinosaurs kicked the bucket.
Sandy Cheeks and Cindy Vortex share a voice actress.
Your melody still remains in this room and it ringsPhilece Sampler voiced Mia for her summer alt in Fire Emblem Heroes as a Harmonized unit with Lucina. (Then again how could I have known; I don't even play Heroes
)
Guess they'll have to declare war on the buggers then. (Buggers? Really? What am I, a Brit?)
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldDue to an oversight in its state constitution, North Dakota technically wasn't a state until 2012
. Not that anyone cared, because it was North Dakota.
The Sonic Adventure games share a jarring number of voice actors with, of all games, Frogger: The Great Quest. Not sure how to feel about that one.
Your melody still remains in this room and it ringsCasting a Shadow is named that because it's about casting shadow magic. I'm dumb.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldThe Redwall audiobooks were narrated by Brian Jacques himself.
Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.One of the Crystal Palace dinosaur statues was vandalized in 2020.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I learned a few days ago that my favorite Vegetable, the Water Spinach, is actually banned in the United States apparently due to being a pest plant.
It's so popular around here that it's almost jarring knowing that people can't buy it there.
"...This is too much information for a brain that just wants to visit Planet Tensuns..."Willem Dafoe was in the 1986 EDSA Revolution in the Philippines. He said it was "an incredible feeling
", while the filming for Platoon was delayed.
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And if you cover an ant in the "dead ant" pheromone, it will think "ah shit I'm dead" and walk itself outside to the dead-ant pile and stand there until the pheromone wears off.
x6 Not exactly true. In 2005, Texas modified regulations for water spinach. If you want to grow it for commercial purposes, you need to have an exotic species permit. As for personal use, there's no restrictions or requirements for growing it.
Lex Lang voices the first villain in the English dub of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable.
Now I can't get the awful image of Neo Cortex swearing about dog poop and killing people with liquids out of my head.
My AO3 profile. Let sleeping cats lie and be cute and calming.The Ukrainian President Zalenskiy used to be a stand-up comedian, as well as the Ukrainian voice actor for Paddington.
The legend has returned.

CNN has had a video all set to air as its final broadcast come The End of the World as We Know It since it began.