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
Paper Jam's probably the game that justifies that distinction.
Your melody still remains in this room and it ringsThe dome roof of the Royal Albert Hall in London is not attached to the building itself.
Thanks, Tom Scott!
Edited by megarockman on Sep 5th 2022 at 12:04:32 PM
The damned queen and the relentless knight.Internet Tough Guy was renamed to Internet Jerk. The page explains the reason for it, and it's pretty sobering when you think about it.
Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.
And I thought it was common knowledge that the Nile River flows South to North but that's clearly not the case.
According to the official Back to the Future twitter account
, the Cubs won the 2016 World Series instead of the 2015 world series like they predicted in the second movie because of the 1994 baseball strike causing an alternate timeline.
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I do remember at least one person in the audience of a 2015 Cubs game was holding up a sign with a Back To The Future reference (more specifically, a sign that had Biff's Malapropism "Make like a tree and get outta here") on it due to that part of the movie.
Well, there is a major character who's musician in the game he wears that specific outfit in... but it's someone completely different.
Edit: I looked up King Dedede and his entry isn't completely accurate either (but it's a bit better than Ghetsis's).
Notable alias: Anti-Heroic
First appearance: Kirby's Dream Land (1992)
Daughter: Tiff wikirby.com
Creator: Masahiro Sakurai
TV show: Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Fictional universes: Kirby, Nintendo Universe
"Anti-Heroic" is more of a descriptor than an alias, and Tiff isn't related to him at all (and they're not even the same species).
Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 8th 2022 at 11:24:58 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.

Then I guess that explains the situation in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 5th 2022 at 8:35:18 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.