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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

RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#32426: Feb 23rd 2022 at 1:11:42 PM

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.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#32427: Feb 23rd 2022 at 7:33:45 PM

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. surprised

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Walkinshadows Since: Jun, 2012
#32428: Feb 23rd 2022 at 7:49:09 PM

You can get blisters from playing handbells.

I found this out the hard way.

Edited by Walkinshadows on Feb 23rd 2022 at 10:52:49 AM

JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#32430: Feb 24th 2022 at 7:28:54 AM

Philece 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 [lol])

FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD
eagleoftheninth Shop all day, greed is free from a dreamed portrait, imperfect Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Shop all day, greed is free
#32431: Feb 24th 2022 at 7:50:07 AM

Australia has almost as many feral hogs (24 million) as it does people (25.7 million).

One day, we will read his name in the news and cheer.
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
#32432: Feb 24th 2022 at 7:54:49 AM

Guess they'll have to declare war on the buggers then. (Buggers? Really? What am I, a Brit?)

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#32433: Feb 24th 2022 at 9:17:07 PM

[up]I'm not sure how advisable that is. Australia doesn't exactly have the best history when it comes to declaring war on animals (see the Emu War).

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
He's finally back to kick some... wait
#32435: Feb 24th 2022 at 10:29:45 PM

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 rings
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
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
#32437: Feb 25th 2022 at 9:22:36 AM

Casting a Shadow is named that because it's about casting shadow magic. I'm dumb.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
CHOMPION
#32438: Feb 26th 2022 at 5:35:46 PM

The 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.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#32439: Feb 26th 2022 at 10:37:15 PM

One of the Crystal Palace dinosaur statues was vandalized in 2020.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#32440: Feb 26th 2022 at 10:45:32 PM

[up] I saw 'Crystal Palace' and my immediate thought was Paper Mario. XD;

The Protomen enhanced my life.
ThatAsianInTheCorner the biggest hair of all from the corner. read the username, dummy. (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
the biggest hair of all
#32441: Feb 27th 2022 at 12:05:30 AM

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..."
Walkinshadows Since: Jun, 2012
#32442: Feb 27th 2022 at 12:21:14 AM

Bees will carry dead bees away from the hive.

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#32443: Feb 27th 2022 at 3:58:18 AM

I think ants do the same thing with dead ants in their colonies.

Macron's notes
alnair20aug93 🍊orange fursona🧡 from 🐾Furrypines 🇵🇭 (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
🍊orange fursona🧡
#32444: Feb 27th 2022 at 5:00:03 AM

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.

Edited by alnair20aug93 on Feb 27th 2022 at 9:02:48 PM

ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔
valozzy Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: Desperate
#32445: Feb 27th 2022 at 9:19:04 AM

You are allowed to have up to 12 chickens and 1 rooster in Indianapolis. Also, my grandmother's neighbors have chickens.

wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#32446: Feb 27th 2022 at 12:08:01 PM

[up][up][up]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.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
omega2900 Jemerald of Brainrot from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
Jemerald of Brainrot
#32447: Feb 27th 2022 at 12:26:02 PM

[up]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.

Get taxed. Idiot.
MagmaTeaMerry My Head Is On Fire from A forest somewhere Since: Sep, 2020
My Head Is On Fire
#32448: Feb 27th 2022 at 12:57:24 PM

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.
Walkinshadows Since: Jun, 2012
#32449: Feb 27th 2022 at 1:12:16 PM

There's a refresh button for followed forum threads.

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#32450: Feb 27th 2022 at 3:25:26 PM

The Ukrainian President Zalenskiy used to be a stand-up comedian, as well as the Ukrainian voice actor for Paddington.

The legend has returned.

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