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
The alleged ivory-billed woodpecker sightings from the mid-2000s may have been outright fraudulent
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ALS is caused by a neurotoxin.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Apr 6th 2022 at 6:30:24 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.In the Marvel Universe, the Real World (ie. Us) is designated Earth-1218
. The Wiki Page is actually kind of funny.
MultiVersus is getting dubs in multiple languages.
That's something I have loved from Warner Games. Hearing the official Latin American voices for the superheroes and supervillains in Injustice was a godsend to me!
... I don't have anything recently learned to share. Sorry for the off-topic reply.
Edited by MyFinalEdits on Apr 7th 2022 at 7:20:38 AM
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311Granny Smith apples were named after a real person, Maria Ann Smith, who cultivated them in Australia by chance.
The Protomen enhanced my life.The Italian translation of Star Wars didn't settle for a consistent translation of "I've got a bad feeling about this" until Attack of the Clones. Before that it was translated differently every time, which can be recursively translated as "I've got a strange feeling-like sensation", "There's something I don't like in all this", "I've got a bad feeling, you know?" and "I have a negative feeling"
The Nile River has been around since the Cretaceous Period.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!You can nest notes with this site's markup. I don't recommend it, as opening the inner note closes the outer note, but it stays open when you reopen the outer note, so it technically is parsed.
My musician pageThere was a Code Lyoko video game on the Nintendo DS.
FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HDI once read a review on it on a Mexican gaming magazine. Two of the editors liked it, the third one didn't (though this one rarely ever liked anything, he was an obnoxious hack). The game also has an average 63/100 score on Metacritic.
You'll probably have to play it to judge if it's good.
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Haven't played it myself but Games Done Quick featured it on the most recent Awfully Silly, which is how I found out about it, and it appears to be So Bad, It's Good at best. Kinda wanna play it myself bc Code Lyoko was my shit as a kid but I'm not sure where I'd get a copy without paying through the nose.
I believe there were two Code Lyoko games for the DS, and one for the PSP.
10 April is the hundredth day of the year (except leap years, where it's day 101 instead). 10 April is also Siblings Day
Edit since double posting would be rude:
Apparently, midnight suns and polar nights are natural phenomena that exist.
Edited by Cibryll on Apr 10th 2022 at 11:35:00 AM
"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"

There's an Afrikaans movie by the name of "Hunting Emma".
"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"And it was apparently released in the US in 2018.