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
Meanings change. Most people uses "pedophile" to refer to anyone who lusts after or has sex with people under the age of consent.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."But, since such a change is completely unnecessarey and reduces precision, it is a terrible change.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.Never said the change was necessary. To stand against the vanguard of change as a wall dedicated to necessity is futile.
That was way too pseudo-poetic.
"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."Letting things slip into imprecsion is just so...annoying...and dull.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.True, but the word for people who lust after teenagers is still ephebophile. And the new definition doesn't exactly invalidate that. In fact, if anything, it only makes you both. At the same time. And That's Terrible.
^ You're kidding...Guy who wrote One Hundred Yearsof Solitude, Chronicle Of A Foretold Death, Love In The Times Of Cholera. For starters.
"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.On my way, madam.
Damn it, hate translations because of that. "El amor en los tiempos del colera" does not translate as "Lovein the time of cholera"
And I'll stick to that to the very end of my Spanish speaking life, damn it!
edited 3rd Jun '11 3:35:02 PM by juancarlos
"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.Ivan The Terrible is an awesome World War Two propaganda movie of Casblanca quality. But it was broadcast in 1946.
Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!Wikipedia gives Dec 30 '44 in the CCCP and Mar 8 '47 in the US for the first part.
Typo. Whoops.
edited 4th Jun '11 5:30:17 PM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.The fact that someone was born the day Doug aired makes me feel frickin' old (no, that's not something I learned).
I knew this already but I just wanted to share it.
I have the same birthday as Ty Pennington, Evander Holyfield and DJ Hero 2.
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘

the term those girls are looking for is Ephebophile, actually.
I just learned that I have met Garcia Marquez twice when I was a little kid.
"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.