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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

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
#32451: Feb 27th 2022 at 3:31:55 PM

P. T. Barnum had his obituary published before his death so that he might read it. He also despised fraudsters (apparently there's a difference between fraud and hoax because he was cool with using hoaxes but hated frauds) and said he'd pay $200 to any medium who could prove they could speak to the dead. He kept the 200.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#32452: Feb 27th 2022 at 5:18:11 PM

A hoax is a form of fraud so he's a hypocrite,typical really.

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#32454: Feb 27th 2022 at 11:21:33 PM

I have known since I was a child.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#32455: Feb 28th 2022 at 2:31:54 PM

The Brooklyn Bridge in New York is older than Tower Bridge in London. Testament to the latter's design that it doesn't feel that way looking at it.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
DeepFiemott Since: Mar, 2017
#32456: Feb 28th 2022 at 3:43:04 PM

The word "Netflix" means "Internet flicks".

I had always just tuned it out as an abstract brand name like Google and Apple and never considered it having a meaning until just a few minutes ago.

omega2900 Jemerald of Brainrot from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
Jemerald of Brainrot
#32457: Feb 28th 2022 at 6:43:06 PM

The Switch port of Shantae (2002) used an engine created by Limited Run Games.

Get taxed. Idiot.
TheWhiteWolf (ON INDEFINITE HIATUS) from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
(ON INDEFINITE HIATUS)
#32458: Feb 28th 2022 at 10:07:50 PM

piglet is wearing a sweater. i always thought he was naked

She/they. Hirrus Clutumnus is my comfort character
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#32459: Mar 1st 2022 at 5:10:20 AM

Some print copies of Winnie-the-Pooh show Piglet as having no clothes on in their illustrations. Piglet with a sweater seems to be Disney-specific.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
A casual tief of punk
#32460: Mar 1st 2022 at 8:19:27 AM

[up]x8: Actually there's overlap, but a fraud is specifically deceiving people to deprive them of money (basically robbery via a hoax). It's no more hypocritical than a prankster being against bank robbery.

As for why I know that? Legally, you can change your name (which I've done) here, as long as it isn't for fraud. Fraud is defined here as deceiving people to make money. So changing your name for deception's fine (e.g. to avoid someone who's harassing you) and for money's fine (e.g. as part of a publicity stunt, to make a stage name official), just not both at once.

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MyFinalEdits Delete message from Parts Unknown (Spin-off Series) Relationship Status: Cast away
Delete message
#32461: Mar 1st 2022 at 8:47:20 AM

What puzzles me is why it takes so long for authorities to expose fraudulent names or actions (mind you, the answer is obvious for the case of my country >_>, but how it can still happen in more developed countries is baffling to me).


Lunin, one of Real Madrid's goalkeepers, was born in Ukraine, not Russia. Now I can better understand how he's feeling over the current conflict.

135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#32463: Mar 1st 2022 at 1:47:01 PM

Mammal fetuses can develop into baseball-sized lumps of flesh if they don’t have enough room in the placenta.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Vandagyre I think I just got AC team loyalty from Dacardia (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
I think I just got AC team loyalty
#32464: Mar 1st 2022 at 6:23:08 PM

Neopets added an item called "Zombie JubJub Morphing Potion" in 2015, but didn't actually release the Zombie JubJub for another six years exactly. In the interim, it apparently did absolutely nothing.

Edited by Vandagyre on Mar 1st 2022 at 6:23:29 AM

Cave Johnson, we're done here.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#32465: Mar 1st 2022 at 7:38:20 PM

Thomas Jefferson discontinued the State of the Union in 1801 because he thought it was too monarchical, and Woodrow Wilson revived it in 1913.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Pogakure Umapyoi! Umapyoi! from The big pile of ryegrass in the sky Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
Umapyoi! Umapyoi!
#32466: Mar 2nd 2022 at 6:29:16 AM

  • Lab coats used to be black to symbolize the coming of death. As advancements in medical procedures came along, doctors decided to phase out the black lab coats in favor of a more sterile white color.

  • There is a Plok webcomic. It's been running since 2013. No joke, check it out.

Don't you ever fix your lips to say that, bruh. I'm sitting right here and I got my daughter in the backseat
Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#32467: Mar 2nd 2022 at 6:39:59 AM

TVT has an "Encounters" namespace.

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#32468: Mar 2nd 2022 at 8:13:31 PM

Zorro Mark is currently the last trope in alphabetical order.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Mar 2nd 2022 at 11:16:01 AM

DrNoPuma Streaky from the land of Humorous Hyenas (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Married to the music
Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#32470: Mar 3rd 2022 at 9:53:19 AM

Apparently Little Fighter 2 had a built-in character editor that's been dummied out. Whaaaa—?!

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#32471: Mar 3rd 2022 at 1:15:55 PM

Brightspace, the learning management platform my college uses, can have a text-to-speech program create on-the-spot audio versions of the documents my professors upload. While not perfect, with everything being read out, it is still amazing and is a total lifesaver.

Edited by RacattackForce on Mar 3rd 2022 at 4:16:47 AM

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
#32472: Mar 3rd 2022 at 4:10:12 PM

~Walk In Shadows ~MacronNotes A post about the dead ant thing from a few days ago

This post is the entire reason we know about that, so when we stumbled across it again we had to bring it back here

this obviously isn't a thing we recently learned about but uhhhhh if there's a proper place to put "relatedly to our conversation in another thread" things we don't know it lmao

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
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
Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
CHOMPION
#32475: Mar 3rd 2022 at 5:25:28 PM

Anteaters T-pose when they feel threatened.

Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.

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