TIL Thread: Today I learned...

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:25 am

This all feels very on-brand for him.

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:12 am

apparently the term for those "katana strongest sword in the world folded 50 times" types is mall ninja

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:14 am

the term originates from a forum where one internet tough guy among other things boasted about being a mall cop and also knowing ninjutsu

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:56 am

TIL that "mall ninja" is a thing.

diribigal · Post by **diribigal** (?) » Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:06 pm

TIL the person in a Salt Bae GIF isn't Robert Downey Jr.

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:18 am

TIL the word cookie has nothing to do with the fact that they're cooked; it's a corruption of the Dutch "koekje" meaning "little cake". And, in the UK, chocolate chip cookies are still called cookies rather than biscuits, because they were invented in America and that's what Americans call them.

diribigal · Post by **diribigal** (?) » Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:19 pm

TIL the pun in "alcremie" only because I saw the Japanese name. It just wasn't obvious to me in English at all.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:23 pm

TIL that not only is Beverly Cleary still alive, she turned 104 today.

Happy birthday!

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Sun Apr 12, 2020 7:07 pm

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:23 pm
TIL that not only is Beverly Cleary still alive, she turned 104 today.

Happy birthday!

Daaaaamn

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:00 am

TIL that there was not one, but two anime inspired by the Stephen Foster song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair": a 1979 series that aired for 13 episodes, and another one from 1992-93 that ran 52 episodes.

Both shows were dramas focusing on romance. The 1979 show took place in America during Civil War, while the 1992 show was a fictionalized account of Stephen Foster and Jeanie MacDowell (Foster's real life wife, and the inspiration for the song). Song aside, neither show had any connection with each-other, and were even made by different studios.

Interestingly, despite being inspired by the song, only the 1979 show actually used it as the theme song (lyrics translated to Japanese, obviously).

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:07 pm

TIL that the effort to ban pay toilets in the US was largely spearheaded by a group of high school kids who started the movement as kind of a joke and kept it going because it was something hardly anyone could disagree with.

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:20 pm

TIL "Don't mess with Texas" was originally an anti-littering slogan.

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:59 am

Pocket wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:20 pm
TIL "Don't mess with Texas" was originally an anti-littering slogan.

Everything's bigger in Texas, especially the garbage.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:24 pm

TIL that "The Godfather" had a subplot in the original book involving, uh, Sonny and his mistress Lucy.

Coppola wisely chose to cut that subplot out in the movie

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:19 pm

TIL that Apple Corps, a music label founded by the Beatles, is pronounced "Apple Core"

Like, I should have known that, but I always pronounce "corps" as "corpse"

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:33 pm

i do too

Princess Flufflebutt · Post by **Princess Flufflebutt** (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:17 pm

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:19 pm
TIL that Apple Corps, a music label founded by the Beatles, is pronounced "Apple Core"

Like, I should have known that, but I always pronounce "corps" as "corpse"

I´ve known corps is pronounced like this for a while and I still read 'corpse' in my mind's eye.

(?) · Post by **ixnay** (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:51 pm

I discovered this way back when I told my mom I wanted to get “blast corpse” for the n64 and she had a horrified look on her face

(?) · Post by **ixnay** (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:53 pm

Buy me Blast Corpse or go to hell!

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:27 pm

ixnay wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:51 pm
I discovered this way back when I told my mom I wanted to get “blast corpse” for the n64 and she had a horrified look on her face

That game fuckin ruled

TIME TO GET MOVING!

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Tue May 05, 2020 2:17 pm

TIL that there's a word for throwing someone out the window: defenestration.

Smoke · Post by **Smoke** (?) » Tue May 05, 2020 2:49 pm

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Tue May 05, 2020 2:17 pm
TIL that there's a word for throwing someone out the window: defenestration.

This is also an alternative name for getting a BSoD on your computer.

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Tue May 05, 2020 6:51 pm

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Tue May 05, 2020 2:17 pm
TIL that there's a word for throwing someone out the window: defenestration.

That was a word on my SAT vocabulary list in high school.

There's also a lot of history to it!

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Tue May 05, 2020 7:12 pm

Smoke wrote: ↑
Tue May 05, 2020 2:49 pm
This is also an alternative name for getting a BSoD on your computer.

Only if it runs Windows.

Smoke · Post by **Smoke** (?) » Wed May 06, 2020 2:43 pm

Pocket wrote: ↑
Tue May 05, 2020 7:12 pm
Only if it runs Windows.

Well, Windows is the only OS that can BSoD (as other OSes have different names for it).

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Wed May 06, 2020 2:48 pm

TIL about the Football War (or 100 Hours War because it only lasted 4 days, making it one of the shortest wars in history)

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Wed May 06, 2020 8:08 pm

That entire channel is worth watching. Unfortunately, he only releases a new video every 2-3 months.

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Wed May 06, 2020 8:58 pm

i've seen it sometimes in the recommendations but the thumbnail made me suspicious

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Wed May 06, 2020 10:52 pm

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote: ↑
Wed May 06, 2020 8:58 pm
i've seen it sometimes in the recommendations but the thumbnail made me suspicious

They're actually pretty entertaining (and educational). Worth checking out IMO.

The Emu War video is pretty hilarious

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Wed May 06, 2020 10:54 pm

For added fun, turn on the Closed Captioning on that.

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:34 am

TIL "albatross" is an anglicization of "alcatraz", which is actually Portuguese for a completely different bird.

Skipper · Post by **Skipper** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:41 am

A jail bird?

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 7:06 am

it escaped for sure

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 11:44 am

TIL that the "ooo ooo ooo haa haa haa" sound effects you hear in movies taking place in the jungle comes not from monkeys, but from Kookaburra birds.

Even though those movies could take place anywhere from South America to Africa to Asia, these birds are native of Australia. Movie realism!

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 11:48 am

i love those birds

Princess Flufflebutt · Post by **Princess Flufflebutt** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 1:14 pm

Yeah??' What'S so funny huh?

DaikatunaRevengeance · Post by **DaikatunaRevengeance** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 1:20 pm

birds

Pocket · Post by **Pocket** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 1:30 pm

Speaking of, did you know that when you hear an "eagle" in movies, it's almost always the call of the red-tailed hawk?

We had one nest in our back yard all last summer, so we heard that iconic "Keeyeer!" a lot.

This, for the record, is what eagles really sound like.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:18 pm

I'm reminded how the horse galloping sounds in movies are achieved by hitting two halves of coconuts (famously parodied in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail").

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:44 pm

Also, I just learned that the dolphin speak you hear in movies also came from Kookaburras. They just sped the audio up to make it squeakier.