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
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Some onlyfans models who offer text messages with customers as a paid tier actually just outsource that to call centers.
David Willis is a he/they, has been out for five years, I have just missed that.
Edited by JethroQWalrustitty on May 14th 2024 at 3:48:10 AM
Plakis Morakis
The Lost Media Wiki has a page on the unidentified media used in Top Gear's "So I went on the internet and found this..." gags.
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The Pride of Nazumah
Wrong thread.
Edited by J99908 on May 14th 2024 at 7:46:01 AM
Better to fight, than to live in fear.
Henry VIII was a devout Catholic. The major boost he gave to protestanism during the English Reform was just a side effect of him trying to divorce his first wife.
Just a simple man, making my way through the Tropes.
The Pride of Nazumah
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I also believe that he was originally studying to be a bishop.
I'm Only Sleeping
Not to mention that the big shift towards a more Protestant doctrine for the Church of England came during the reign of Henry's son Edward VI. Which his sister Mary promptly walked back on (earning her "Bloody Mary" moniker in the process), and which Elizabeth ended up doing a "happy medium".
As a continental European raised around the Lutheran church, I always learn new things about the English reformation. I didn't realize until pretty recently that most US church denominations are just extensions of the English reformation; Episcopalians are Anglicans but with a different name, Presbyterians are Sottish protestants, Methodist are a spin off from Anglicans. Baptism has some roots in European Anabaptism, but is ultimately descended from a split in the English reformation. Later immigration from Europe did bring some Lutherans to America, but most American born protestant christianity is still just extensions of religious debates from the formation and split of the Church of England, and that's why they still venerate the King James Bible. And that's also why they're called WASP's.
I guess 7th Day Adventists and all the cul- sects that descended from them are the true American protestant tradition.
[ed.] also, the word "methodist" is an Appropriated Appellation
Edited by JethroQWalrustitty on May 14th 2024 at 11:00:56 AM
Thanks to our good friend Aegis P, I found out that today is the 30 year anniversary of one of my favorite TV shows: Space Ghost Coast to Coast. 
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I loved watching that show. XD
Glad I was able to help!
Lord Wiener
Well, I feel dumb. I thought that a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun) involved somehow training an AI to play a game perfectly. (Yes, I know AI has only recently seen an explosion in popularity, but that's mostly generative AI as far as I can tell. I thought this was a different type of AI.) I just learned about some of the tricks and techniques that are actually used to make a TAS. It's still a person playing the game.
Now I see why it's called "tool-assisted." 
Just Another Acht Fan
WAIT I THOUGHT IT WAS A BOT PROGRAMMED TO DO ALL THE MOVEMENTS PERFECTLY
PEOPLE STILL PLAY IN TAS RUNS???
Edited by Eisner on May 15th 2024 at 2:05:12 AM
Think we're ready for that next floor, Eight.
Child Hater have REALLY creative and awful names for children like "Semen Demon".
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Miyamoto Musashi
Hikaru Midorikawa and Nobutoshi Canna (the Lancers from the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars respectively) played Akihiko and Takaya in Persona 3. I found this out through a Google search sparked by a piece of fanart I came across on Pinterest ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Mweheheh
Famous Amos is a real person.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
TIL of the existence of The Hobbit (2003).
The Protomen enhanced my life.
Officially intimidated
"Draconian" means "of great severity".
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Mweheheh
The “it’s been 84 years” meme is from Titanic.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
I'm Only Sleeping
And has nothing to do with dragons, but an Athenian politician named Draco.
Meanwhile the "it's been 3000 years" meme comes from Pokémon X and Y.
Everybody, Everybody!
The origin of the old man "NOPE" meme was made by Rhett & Link.
Mweheheh
A Gaboon viper strikes with 5.6 Gs.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Dr. Ivo Robotnik
Both of the 1930 and 2022 adaptations of All Quiet on the Western Front have won Best Picture on the Academy Awards. The 1930 version won the third Academy Awards, back when the Best Picture category was known as "Outstanding Production".
A more advanced intellect would've seen this move coming a mile away. Or 1.6 kilometers.
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Didn’t Everything Everywhere All at Once win for 2022?
Another was that the country was hesitant to take on millions of Catholics, which given how anti-Catholicism was a big political issue in the US to the point where they only elected one as President in 1960, kinda makes sense.
You saw that Tiktok vid shared on reddit too?
And by comparison the Sahara is a baby. Not even five digits years old.
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.