What did you learn today?

[Tsuru]

 

[SwordSong]

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL hot cold in martial arts is from yinyang.

I hate it.

 

[melchi]

I learned that midway island is full of birds.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

I found out something cool watching "Somebody Feed Phil" on Netflix just now.
There's a "food store" in Las Vegas called "The Omega Mart", and from sight it looks like a regular food store.
It's not! Every item inside the store is a complete fake, a work of art, some kind of spoof or imitation of the real item.
And it's a howl. If you ever get to Vegas, baby, this is a must-see.

Omega Mart | Las Vegas Immersive Art Experience (w/ Pictures) | Meow Wolf

Omega Mart, Meow Wolf’s second permanent exhibition, is an interactive, mind-bending art experience at AREA15 in Las Vegas.

meowwolf.com

I'm going eventually! *^^*

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL Xeelee.

I thought the chinese cultivation is big BS.

Then comes Xeelee saying "hold my beer"

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL The voice actress for TAWOG Nicole, Gumball's mom, also voices Penny, Gumball's GF.

This made me recalled Generator Rex moment when the titular MC is hitting on the older woman who has the same voice as his mother (because same VA) and boy, a ton of Oedipus moments.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Just learned that the region of Caucasus was already removed from the Asian region in our books. When I was in high school, they taught us that Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were Asian countries to the north (Central Asia).

Now I'm teaching Social Studies to our Grade 8 students, I found out that the only Central Asian countries we have on the list are the '-tan' countries except Afghanistan.

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL artist for Kongou Banchou, an old work that I liked, is the artist for Seven Deadly Sins.

No wonder I was loving Escanor other than obvious reason.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

For the longest time I thought "Magic", a 1975 song by the group Pilot, was actually performed by Electric Light Orchestra..
It certainly sounded like them! I've been wrong for 50 years. *^^*

 

[Tsuru]

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I learned what the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life sounds like. Likely over 150 dba with no ear pro. Was in between runways when a fighter jet took off, was really cool to see but hurt like hell, my head was ringing for a while afterwards

 

[Deleted member 206441]

decimate

Historically means

kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group.
"the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

 

[willamabroy2]

Everyone's learning something new big or small. Share yours

 

[LeilaniOtter]

I learned that in Episode 5 and 6, the "Squid Games" people suddenly decided to fire their writers and say, "You know what, we're good. We'll take it from here." Extremely disappointed.

 

[Deleted member 206441]

 

[Tsuru]

Remembered there existed a game like this.

Shorter trailer:

Ignore first one, wrong link.

PS : ......................A (boring but) good old era without the nonsense of now
PPS : Re-released on steam july11 2025 : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383200/PATAPON_12_REPLAY/

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL Arifureta MTL into commonplace (sort of).

So it is kind of a shame that the cringe edgy work is synonym to it.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

We have not had rain in over two weeks - despite four days of those two weeks alerting us of thunderstorms.
The National Weather Service is becoming a great dis-service. ?

 

[istryj]

Today I found out that not only do people think that eating garlic raw is weird,

Raw garlic perfectly complements the taste of borscht. Try it.

On this night I found my sound of the year