The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[QueenCobra]

During his early career, as a struggling actor, Javier Bardem worked as a stripper. It was only for one day, but his mom was in the crowd, so that must have been awkward….

 

[danmokun]

I learned of a flower that absorbs all the hate.
The nuclear waste that is wrongfully made.
A flower that shines in the color of gold,
a flower that smiles and is tickled when hold.

A flower that few would have thought could be pure.
A flower that few would consider a cure.
But yet such a flower has a purpose it'd seem,
chemically speaking, if you know what I mean.

And I'm not a botanist who studies this crap.
Nuclear physics, I don't care about that.
Sunflowers grow in Chernobyl you see,
they help reduce radioactivity.

That's what I learned, but that's not why I'm here.
I write these poems for somebody held dear.
Yes, she's a flower and she's watered with poems.
That is my promise 'till I'm gone from these forums.
​

 

[QueenCobra]

You can order AMC Theater popcorn on DoorDash. I haven’t tried it, but sounds delicious!

 

[-Blue-]

Cad Bane from Star Wars the Clone Wars is based off of the actor Lee Van Cleef. He is probably most well known as the antagonist from The Good The Bad and The Ugly. He was able to draw his firearm so fast that they had to make him deliberately slow it down to make his quickdraw not look fake.

 

[QueenCobra]

I learned that zorses (or zebroids) exist. The father is usually a zebra and the mother is a horse. This has been happening since the 19th century.

 

[Neb]

My state of Oregon is where the corndog and tater tots were invented. I've even been to the town where the latter was first made.

 

[Ghost Of Mascevanje]

Did not know that "Photograph" by Nickelback has become some kind of meme (look at these videos).

Spoiler

 

[VernalLapin]

Before it was the SCP logo, the iconic symbol was a free asset from an Adobe illustrator “mad science” icon pack. The logo was originally orange and glowy and was simplified into the logo we know today. That original orange icon was used in 3 TV shows (as decals to make things look “cool”)…including, get this! Sesame Street!

 

[Yoshi155]

I learned two Mario things not today, but recently.

First, Mario games don’t count time in real seconds. I already knew that Mario games in the 80s and 90s counted 1 in game second as about 2/3 of a real second, but apparently the only Mario games with a time limit that count in real time are New Super Luigi U (only that game, not New Super Mario Bros. U) and the Super Mario Maker games.

And also, the jingle in Mario Kart games that plays when you’re in the last lap is based on the music that plays when you have 100 seconds left in mainline Mario games. It’s way more noticeable in Super Mario Kart.

 

[Suguri]

This was from Wikipedia... "Elizabeth Storie's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out"

 

[xSuperMario64x]

TIL that in Super Mario 64, the reason why that little unused dancing flower graphic is found in the source code for Lethal Lava Land is because it is grouped with bubble effects, which includes the effect used for the lava in that level.

and if you look at the way the flower behaves, it makes sense. it's actually an "event" made up of multiple flowers that spawn in a radius around Mario's current position. this is also how the lava bubble effect behaves in levels that feature lava.

 

[QueenCobra]

The Menendez brothers can be seen in the background of Mark Jackson's NBA Hoops basketball card from 1990. They bought court-side tickets before they were arrested.

 

[wrenbow]

I was looking at the Wikipedia page for wordplay with numbers in Japanese and this one was fun:

• 3.14159265, the first nine digits of pi, can be read as "san-i-shi-i-ko-ku-ni-mu-kou" (産医師異国に向こう), meaning "an obstetrician faces towards a foreign country".

 

[QueenCobra]

I learned about this South American bird, the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock. It’s the National bird of Peru, and they build their nests of the edge of rocks or caves. Some have sadly been sold to the exotic pet trade. My only question: how can they see?

 

[QueenCobra]

How Fettuccine Alfredo was allegedly invented. This guy sounded like a keeper!

 

[WingsofLove]

I learned something new about Aquatics at the pet store I work at

 

[Suguri]

I learned something new about Aquatics at the pet store I work at

What was it?

 

[WingsofLove]

What was it?

I learned about management of aquariums and aquatic illnesses

 

[QueenCobra]

The song “Baby Got Back” is allegedly about Jennifer Lopez.

 

[daisyflowers]

how to pronounce chamomile correctly (i was pronouncing it as cham-o-meal), was amusing when someone said i was wrong

also thought that urls ending in .com and .co.uk were the same thing