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
Nemesis
You're that hard up, EI? Damn.
A brighter future for a darker age.
Or a good roasting.
I recently learned guacamole doesn't last long with only normal refrigeration. And to see something you know, and have come to accept, looks like green snot turn shit brown is...ehh...
I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.
Victorian women could blow bubbles
◊ with their nipples.
That, and I truly feel, from the bottom of my heart, that all people should know the Origin Story of the most Epic Anime Villain Food.
Has anyone been able to find consomme-flavored potato chips in a store? I tried several Asian supermarkets (I live northeast of Atlanta, GA; the area is full of them) and a specifically Japanese grocery store and couldn't find them.
That Furries Are Easier to Draw, at least for most people. Was that ever a shock. For all their supposed easiness, all my attempts look like photorealistic animals' heads cut-and-pasted onto human bodies. Like that news anchor on Sponge Bob Square Pants.
I recently learned there was a performer in the days of vaudeville known as The Fartiste.
I'm with you, man. I could never draw furries. I never know how much snout to give them.
edited 5th Jun '09 1:32:51 PM by Made of Meat
However much you feel like, I'd imagine. It's not like these things come with a manual.
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
God Of Cake
Nemesis
Well, if he was French, it'd be 'doo bwah' (roughly). But he's an American, and America has a habit of taking people names and place names from other languages and pronouncing them by taking their written form and using English pronunciation rules as if it was a word in English.
A brighter future for a darker age.
Last woman standing
Russia shares boarders with Finland, China, Estonia, Mongolia and Kazastan.
It's freaking HUGE!
DUMB
I like romantic stories, and also crazy people. Simultaneously.
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
Dammit Tzetze, but you * made me want to read that. I don't have time to read more! D:
edited 7th Jun '09 10:49:35 PM by Sabbo
DUMB
Muhahahaha Just remember that Yuno is totally batshit, yes even then.
Garuda
I learned that I had more estrogen than testosterone as a fetus.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article641643.ece
edited 8th Jun '09 3:36:22 PM by Metacifer
I don't understand your language. Speak up.
Maid of Win
I learned the other day that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Trekkie. No, seriously:
http://www.thisisdorset.net/news/2041327.bold_move/ (near the end)
Leon Trotsky had an affair with Frida Kahlo.
I learned that Crispin Freeman apparently has haters. I couldn't really understand how Vic could have a hatedom (rather outspoken about his faith yes, but I'm betting it's mainly rabid fangirls asking for — and denied — the miniskirt line), but CRISPIN?! o_0
Edible!
I learned that I had more estrogen than testosterone as a fetus.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article641643.eceGirl here, with a very, very slightly longer ring finger, indicating more exposure to testosterone. Mind = blown.
edited 8th Jun '09 4:44:22 PM by Bizarro AFGNCAAP
AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
vigilantly taxonomish
Wait, girl or G.I.R.L.?
Ninja edited, never mind.
edited 8th Jun '09 4:46:20 PM by BobbyG
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Edible!
Female. Woman. Lady. Possessor of no Y chromosome. Etc.
Ninja: I see what you did there.
edited 8th Jun '09 4:47:45 PM by Bizarro AFGNCAAP
AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I learned that Graham Chapman once held a lecture by dressing up in a carrot costume and standing silently grinning on the podium for 20 minutes.
Erik
OG Troper
During WWI, Lenin lived in Switzerland, near Cabaret Voltaire, where the Dadaists were residents.
The band Cabaret Voltaire was named after that restaurant, not just some odd combo of a form of theatre and a philosopher.
the statement above is false
I learned that kitchen knives are not sharp enough to draw blood.
Food that's not-quite-spoiled can be made palatable again with lots and lots of salt.