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
I'm Only Sleeping
I'm guessing the Teen Titans show airing around the same time the internet generation began puberty was a contributing factor as well.
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.
Idea Chef
Today I learned that the Xerxes from the historical account of Thermopylae is the same Persian King from the Book of Esther.
You gonna eat that?
Officially intimidated
I keep forgetting that The Minish Cap was released in 2004, not 2005. The former year saw release for Japan and Europe, while it came for the other regions during the latter.
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Audrey Hepburn was born on 4 May 1929.
Cibrylls have trouble picking which avatar to use at times, so it changes on a whim at times~
Mother Glasc and her loyal butler
Rebecca Sugar was a storyboard artist for Hotel Transylvania.
Basically girl Beetlejuice and a big candle, but the skins are better than they sound.
The Topic Slayer
Pocahontas was released on the real Pocahontas' 400th birthday.
Edited by Kahran042 on May 4th 2024 at 7:14:59 AM
Oh no! The DREADED AQUAE MORTIS! No, wait, it's just your imagination.
Mother Glasc and her loyal butler
Jaywalking is no longer a ticketable offense in California as of 2021.
Basically girl Beetlejuice and a big candle, but the skins are better than they sound.
Officially intimidated
Sausages were invented in Mesopotamia over 5000 years ago.
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Mweheheh
An American black bear needs 20,000 calories a day to survive.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Martin Sheen is the father of Charlie Sheen.
Kaito is an alien and he is kinda spacey, coming from the universe to party and go crazy!
Professional Professionalist
While I knew that googling "that episode of CSI" pulls up the infamous furry episode, I just now learned that the search term "that episode" with no other context does as well. That's how infamous it is.
"Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened."
Mother Glasc and her loyal butler
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Indeed it does.
Very Spooky
John Waters announcing his casting in Helluva Boss led me to check his Wikipedia page and promptly discover he voiced a character in Bubble Guppies.
back lol
Mweheheh
I thought you said Roger Waters & was very confused.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
The reason cats like boxes and bags is because they have an instinctual desire to be somewhere stable and safe.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Awwwwwwwwwwwww...
"One of the first things that a child learns in a healthy family is trust"
Discord: Waido X 255#1372 If you cant contact me on TV Tropes do it here.
Mother Glasc and her loyal butler
The Kellogg’s company owns Pop Tarts.
Basically girl Beetlejuice and a big candle, but the skins are better than they sound.
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
Glurge has a definition on dictionary.com:
I've known for a while that Glurge was named by Snopes and that's basically how the term is defined on that site (it's defined a little more broadly on here), but I wasn't expecting it to have a dictionary definition.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
That's odd, I thought it just meant "Diabetes Inducing Trying-Too-Hard-Schmaltz" not specifically online made up stories.
There's a TV spin-off of the Taken movies.
Just a simple man, making my way through the Tropes.
Mweheheh
“Yuppy” stands for “young urban professional”.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Mother Glasc and her loyal butler
Two things:
- “Chino” is a colloquial Peruvian slang term for Asians.
- Also in Peru, during the 80s when the Shining Path terrorist group was at large, the-president Alberto Fujimori started a death squad that committed many human rights violations. They were called the Grupo Colina.
Edited by J99908 on May 5th 2024 at 8:02:15 AM
Basically girl Beetlejuice and a big candle, but the skins are better than they sound.
Christopher Lee played in 290 movies and series, including adaptations of Discworld (as voice of the Death) and Jan Paweł II (as Stefan Wyszyński, to whom Lee was not particularly similar, look-wise, but still). He also dubbed his own role as king Haggard in German version of Last Unicorn.
Painful Rhyme still exists on This Very Wiki, except it's now In-Universe Examples Only. I thought it was deleted outright...
I'm surprised it's not Wonder Woman or Catwoman or Harley Quinn.
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.