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
There are underwater lakes.
Looks like someone wasn't paying enough attention to Spongebob Squarepants.
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Given his wife’s reputation, probably the later.
edited 5th Jun '11 8:12:57 PM by Justice4243
Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.Two things.
- Japanese girls really DO where Zettai Ryouki. My school had a visit from few dozens of Japanese students and almost all girls were wearing them with varying degree, all of them really short pants type. I didn't really find them appealing, if noticed at all, but in RL, it really makes the girls' legs look really nice. It helps that they have a much more slender legs. I should stop...
- Lung is NOT a sack of air. It is filled with some bronchial...something.
edited 6th Jun '11 3:49:27 AM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.He's around 70 now and is retiring this year. He is a really nice patient teacher.
The private detective work was for the Pinkerton police force and most of it was on insurance fraud, but he said following people around in a car was fun.
He's traveled many places and has told us lots of cool things about him.
Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.Secular Medieval dress: Germanic origin.
Clerical Dress: Roman origin.
**The restriction on eating the flesh only applied to residents of the same village; it was OK to trade the flesh to a neighbouring village.
Mental note: When traveling in Iran make sure all meat is local.
Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.I have discovered that the director of The Starfighters instead of being incarcerated for his crimes against cinema, was instead allowed to continue his heinous work.
edited 7th Jun '11 10:49:43 PM by Zyxzy
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.I realised a few days ago that Bruno Mars is one of The Smeezingtons, the guys who co-wrote and produced "Fuck You!" for Cee-Lo Green.
online since 1993 | huge retrocomputing and TV nerd | lee4hmz.info (under construction) | heapershangout.comDeep Purple Mark I produced three albums in a short span of time.
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.Image data in first-gen Pokemon games was stored procedurally.
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…Tolkien explained the two different versions in the introduction of The Lord of the Rings, as well as inside "The Shadow of the Past", as a "lie" that Bilbo made up, probably because of the One Ring's influence on him, and which he originally wrote down in his book. Inside The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo finally confesses the real story at the Council of Elrond, although Gandalf had deduced the truth earlier. As Tolkien presented himself as the translator of the supposedly historic Red Book of Westmarch, where Bilbo and Frodo's stories were recorded, he further explained the two differing stories in The Hobbit by stating he had originally used Bilbo's original story, but later retranslated the work with the "true story" recorded by Frodo.

Vincent Price once played Joseph Smith Jr.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.