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
@CDRW: as I said, other zoos were offering to take the giraffe in.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I wonder what would happen if you told people you were giving them LSD, but actually gave them a sugar pill.
And you could prime each group, with, say, articles or something. One could be that LSD's effects aren't as extreme as most people believe, and another could be that they're even more extreme than most people believe.
And you could try different coloured pills. White ones, yellow, green, purple.
Excuse me. I have to try SCIENCE!
(Fun fact: She Blinded Me With Science was initially to be the theme tune for The Big Bang Theory)
edited 14th Feb '14 1:15:48 AM by Bede
WWWWWWOW // With Which Witticism Would Wilde Wither One's Wellbeing?
MK Ultra's how I found that out. Late night wikipedia browsing somehow led to past CIA experiments and cryptograms.
Tara Strong is Jewish. Which makes the Christmas Episode of The Fairly Odd Parents odd, in retrospect.
edited 14th Feb '14 8:22:31 AM by Midna
pearlina brainrot affects millions of people worldwide. if you or a loved one are suffering from pearlina brainrot, call 1-800-GAY-NERDSThis version
of "All The Small Things" is by Kidz Bop. I always thought it was a Muppet version, even when I was five.
edited 16th Feb '14 4:06:41 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Not to leave chocolate behind the PS3 fan exhaust.
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!MST 3 K was a nineties show. I had the impression that most of its lifespan was in the eighties
Hmm, I don't know, how soft can it be if it makes people talk about how much they love you or how much they hate you?
When you buy a house, you buy the physical property and the topsoil. The airspace and the ground underneath the topsoil still belong to The State; otherwise your permission would be needed every time they did sewage work.
Thus, The State needs to ask for permission (or use compulsory purchase orders...) when it has to disturb your topsoil.

You'd probably see worse on an episode of Wild Discovery back when it was on, and I watched that series from when I was 4 in 1995 to 2002 when it ended.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.