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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

nekoalexa from the same place I've always been Since: Oct, 2010
#3626: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:53:07 AM

I still have the cassette tape.tongue  *

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Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
nekoalexa from the same place I've always been Since: Oct, 2010
#3628: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:54:23 AM

True, true...

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MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
#3629: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:58:03 AM

I still have the cassette tape for a lot of things. Having an old TV with a built-in VCR has it's benefits.

nekoalexa from the same place I've always been Since: Oct, 2010
#3630: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:59:35 AM

It does. Half my movies are cassette tapes. Those ones are the classics!grin

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annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#3631: Feb 26th 2011 at 11:35:28 AM

My grandma still has her VCR, which is awesome.

Also, I hate when people talk like I've never seen a tape before, since that was the way I watched movies when I was a kid. :/

edited 26th Feb '11 11:36:29 AM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#3632: Feb 26th 2011 at 11:36:17 AM

Lustmord isn't a metal band, but rather, a pioneer of the "dark ambient" genre.

edited 26th Feb '11 11:38:30 AM by Zudak

MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
#3633: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:28:11 PM

[up][up]Those types kinda come of as retarded to me because of that.

annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#3634: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:31:01 PM

My Photo 101 teacher (who I love very much, I had her before for an art class) pretty much introduced film to us in this fashion.

Sure, I understand not knowing all the technicalities behind film (which we have to know for the class because we're developing our own pictures), but we used film when we were little kids.

edited 26th Feb '11 12:31:37 PM by annebeeche

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Landstander God Of Cake from Somewhere else Since: Jan, 2001
God Of Cake
#3635: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:35:28 PM

Gore Vidal wrote the script for Ben Hur and included homoerotic subtext which he told the other main actor in, but didn't tell Charlton Heston about.

Emperor Wu liked cake, but not exploding cake!
MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#3637: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:45:20 PM

She was basically like, "Back before digital cameras came out, we used stuff called film. Here, this is what a roll of Kodak looks like."

edited 26th Feb '11 12:45:28 PM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
nekoalexa from the same place I've always been Since: Oct, 2010
#3638: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:51:32 PM

Basically, she called you guys stupid?

edited 26th Feb '11 12:51:40 PM by nekoalexa

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#3639: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:53:00 PM

I don't know, a lot of younger people have never dealt with film. I learned how to use cameras that operated with film, with the clicky dial and so on, but that doesn't translate into knowledge of how the medium works. Dodging? Burning? Wassat?

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annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#3640: Feb 26th 2011 at 1:21:53 PM

Like I said, I don't mean the finer details like how a manual camera operates (we were kids, most of us likely didn't use manual cameras) or real dodging and burning, just the basics, like what film is and what it is used for.

edited 26th Feb '11 1:22:51 PM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#3641: Feb 26th 2011 at 5:32:42 PM

William of Ockham was nicknamed Doctor Invincibilis.

No, really.

Kill all math nerds
Justice4243 Writer of horse words from Portland, OR, USA Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: Brony
Writer of horse words
#3642: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:10:37 PM

I’m just going to assume at this point that he fought crime with a razor, because the 14th century would be way more awesome if a monk ran around using parsimony to solve crimes and broke out a razor when shit got real.

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Medicus Sierra 117 from Australia Since: Sep, 2009
Sierra 117
#3643: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:32:53 PM

So, um... how did you get that image in there?

It's not over. Not yet.
Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#3644: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:35:44 PM

^Work it out using only the principle of Occam's razor.

annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#3645: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:43:10 PM

Justice: That just made my day.

Or extremely early morning, in this case.

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
thekikoperson from Australia Since: Mar, 2010
#3646: Feb 27th 2011 at 6:08:52 AM

That my mum thinks I'm a hypocondriac, because I asked her what sort of health effects using a shower with mould on the tiles/ceiling would have.

Also that she thinks that not eating fruit is worse than mould health issues.

Seriously, after I asked her about the health effects, she called me back out to say "you know what would be causing health problems in this house? Our bad eating. No one eats fruit here."

Also that the health issues I've been having recently are listed here.

I'm really tempted to send that link to her over a facebook message and write something like "I'm a hypocondriac?"

Also, can "Things you didn't know until very recently" also be used as "Things you didn't realise until very recently"? Because I just realised I should really do as my avatar says...

edited 27th Feb '11 6:11:22 AM by thekikoperson

Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#3647: Feb 27th 2011 at 7:08:25 AM

PIRATES OF DARK WATER CAME OUT ON DVD MONTHS AGO

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

Buttercupistiny Battle Scowler from next to ponicalica Since: Nov, 2011
Battle Scowler
#3648: Feb 27th 2011 at 7:25:00 AM

WHAT?! IT DID?! Awesome!

‎"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001

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