Things you didn't know until very recently...

The term “Anti-Hero” has been around since the 1700s.

That’s relatively common knowledge though.

There's a new species of ichthyosaur that was discovered, Ichthyotitan, and it might have been the largest marine reptile that ever was.

And that it's a solid contender for the crown of largest animal ever, rivaling the blue whale.

Dyslexia is caused because, whereas a brain would typically instruct three of its parts to process reading and writing in a sequential manner (Broca's area for word processing, Wernicke's area for middle word analysis, and the occipito-temporal area for word form), in this case the brain has difficulty coordinating those three areas to adequately process the intended text, resulting in a lack of fluency to read and write.

For a long time, I was one of the people who thought that the sauropod dinosaur Amphicoelias could outsize the blue whale.

Kate Murtagh is the woman on the cover of Supertramp's album Breakfast in America. She appeared in The Munsters and died at the age of 96 in 2017.

Despite being associated with the 1960's, Blotter Acid (LSD on paper squares with little designs) didn't really become a thing until the 70's, and evolved into its recognizeable form in the 1980's. So if you see a work set in the 1960's where someone has LSD blotter squares with artwork, that is likely an anachronism.

The giant Amphicoelias vertebra was given its own genus Maraapunisaurus in 2018.

There was a kaiju movie in North Korea called "Pulgasari", which was made because the director and his wife were kidnapped. (They managed to escape though)

Thank god they escaped!

Today’s Vladimir Lenin’s birthday.

The country of Germany was originally divided into tons of tiny little fiefdoms.

Apparently, giraffes smell really bad.

The Olmecs invented rubber.

Sword is not "Suwodo" in Katakana, its just "Soodo" but with dead on similarity to the pronounciation of the english word.

I had learned that your college credit never really fade for a time

the term for emotional attachments to robots/animatronics/etc. is called the tamagotchi effect

During the American Civil War, the Confederates tried to bring back the pike & shot.

Limited regeneration of limbs occurs in most fishes and salamanders, and tail regeneration takes place in larval frogs and toads (but not adults). The whole limb of a Salamander or a Triton will grow again and again after amputation. In reptiles, Chelonians, crocodiles and snakes are unable to regenerate lost parts.

Bill Farmer was in Robocop 1987.

The McDonald brothers’ first business was a movie theater.

Eric Bauza and George Buza are two different people.

According to a special homage video on Youtube, the Latin American and Iberian channel Locomotion had planned to air the series Battle Athletes sometime in 2005... but because Sony bought the channel to repurpose it into Animax, the series never aired there (not even after the rebrand).

If this is true, then this has truly ruined my day. And my day was already miserable due to my flu plus a messy water leak due to the old age of the apartment's tank.

Edited by MyFinalEdits on Apr 23rd 2024 at 1:12:51 PM

Aaliyah was Gladys Knight’s niece.