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
Today, I learned, much to my dismay, that not only is Jerry Stiller dead, he's been dead since 2020. Which, uh... I feel like a dick for not knowing all this time, because if I had known, I would have given that comedic legend a proper eulogy.
Edited by Ego-Man25 on Jan 26th 2025 at 10:20:24 AM
Self-professed Wild Card who thinks cynicism isn't so bad.A plane crashed into the Potomac River in 1982, killing all but five passengers.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.![]()
He was fired in 2010.
Thread tax: Mars is slightly older than Earth.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Two music ones:
There's some catchy pop rock song from the sixties where the refrain is "Because, because I love you", and up until today I thought it was some relatively lesser-known early single by The Beatles: It's "Because" by Dave Clark Five
. Which is a little funny to me because The Beatles have a totally different song also called "Because".
That audio I kept hearing in tik tok videos (and other memes) where it's someone singing a sad sounding melody made up of meows is parodying "What Was I Made For"
, which is a Billie Eilish song from Barbie (2023). I finally watched the movie for the first time yesterday, and when the song played on the soundtrack I was like "this sounds like Billie Eilish, but why do I want to meow to it?" and then I put it all together.
Edited by MikeK on Jan 27th 2025 at 11:09:18 AM
Cars was the last movie to receive a wide VHS release in North America, as part of the Disney Movie Club.
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
Although A History of Violence was the last one to get a regular release.
Thread tax: Kramer vs. Kramer was the first movie to get an A+ Cinemascore.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.The bald guy who played the psychologist in the first three Terminator films, as well as the marriage counselor in Naked Gun 33 1/3, was the same guy who voiced LeChuck in the Monkey Island games.
I knew the actor's face and I knew Earl Boen's name from voice acting credits, but I never knew that they were the same person.
By the time Eva Gabor was born, it had switched from being the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Hungarian Republic.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!Gex belongs to Square Enix now.
Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.Penguins are not afraid of people because they thinks were also penguins. Because we too walk on two legs.
Surely Diogenes would have a field day over this information.
Veritas Vincit.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S had a spinoff called Joey
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