The 'I didnt know that' Thread

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Something I never knew until today is Tetris has endings, which you can see at 12:00 and 14:41 of this video:

Played my mom's original copy of the game many times over the years and have never seen these endings before, nor was I aware it even had them. I guess now I'll play it some more then.
 
So I knew canola oil is made from rapeseed, a member of the brassica family (including broccoli, cabbage, and mustard greens), but I didn't know its name is a portmanteau of 'can' (from 'Canada') and 'ola' (from the Latin 'oleum', for oil), trademarked by the Rapeseed Association of Canada. I can appreciate that "rapeseed oil" maybe wouldn't be appealing.
 
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So I knew canola oil is made from rapeseed, a member of the brassica family (including broccoli, cabbage, and mustard greens), but I didn't know its name is a portmanteau of 'can' (from 'Canada') and 'ola' (from the Latin 'oleum', for oil), trademarked by the Rapeseed Association of Canada. I can appreciate that "rapeseed oil" maybe wouldn't be appealing.
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Rapeseed oil is what it gets called in Europe. I don't think the 'rape' bit of the name gets given any thought as its just a common seen thing, as are the bright yellow 'oilseed rape' fields where the stuff is grown.
 
Something I didn't know until today is that Toni Basil's "Hey Mickey" is actually a cover of a song Racey did, albeit with a slight title change.

Heard Toni Basil's a bunch of times over the years and never knew this!
 
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Something I didn't know until just now is GTPlanet has an "In Memoriam" banner for users who have passed away. I didn't know about it until I was reading kikie's post here in this very thread, and I also noticed JohnBM01 has too.
 
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Something I didn't know until just now is GTPlanet has an "In Memoriam" banner for users who have passed away. I didn't know about it until I was reading kikie's post here in this very thread, and I also noticed JohnBM01 has too.
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Must be a very recent addition to the site.
 
:eek: Listening to some music for journey home, I have Brazilian funk and disco joints on my playlist. This song is not, but NOW IS on my playlist! Had no idea this song existed and is a tribute to Fittipaldi. Good stuff!
 
For years I thought the lowrider came from the Mexican community in California. Had no idea this is where it originated from.
 
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This is called a "grawlix".

At this time, there is no Rosetta Stone to define which character represents what letter, sound, or word.
 
Pupik
At this time, there is no Rosetta Stone to define which character represents what letter, sound, or word.
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! = old aaaaOOOOga horn
@ = boing
# = splat
$ = cash register ka-ching
% = bullet ricochet
& = thwap
* = hrumph
 
I recently learned that in his old age, Groucho Marx was best friends with...Alice Cooper, of all people. I had no idea they were even alive at the same time, let alone besties!
 
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Also, that sculpture that's used as a FIAGTC/GTWS trophy, titled "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"? The artist, Umberto Boccioni, apparently died in 1916 at 33. My age.

I even got to see an original bronze casting of the sculpture at the MoMA in NYC, in Fall 2021!
 
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I didn't know this until today, a kit car made in Australia called the DRB540. It's a replica of the Ford Shelby Cobra Concept Car, this is rather cool as I always wished there was a production version of that Concept.

It uses the 5.4L V8 from the Ford Falcon XR8.
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For Sale: A Rare Australian DRB540 Cobra

This is one of a few dozen examples of the DRB540 Cobra that were ever made, and if it looks strangely familiar to you, that's because it was closely
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I didn't know this until today, a kit car made in Australia called the DRB540. It's a replica of the Ford Shelby Cobra Concept Car, this is rather cool as I always wished there was a production version of that Concept.

It uses the 5.4L V8 from the Ford Falcon XR8.
silodrome.com

For Sale: A Rare Australian DRB540 Cobra

This is one of a few dozen examples of the DRB540 Cobra that were ever made, and if it looks strangely familiar to you, that's because it was closely
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I've seen one of these!
 
I haven’t seen Batman: The Animated Series yet but apparently it’s all viewable for free on Tubi at the moment. I’m definitely gonna take advantage of that!
 
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If you're old enough to remember an analog TV with analog UHF dials in the analog US, you might remember the dial or switch went from 14 all the way up to 83...and on at least one rainy day, you were hoping to find something mysterious at the end of the range. (Maybe it was just me?)

But only one station applied for Channel 83 and broadcasted at all: WILM, appropriately for Wilmington, Delaware in 1953. However, the station went off the air in January of 1955.
 
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I've seen that photo of Goebbels....

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But I never knew the photographer was Jewish.

AND that there was a photo taken just before....

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Reading into a lawsuit today, I learned that South Carolina legalized tattooing in...2004. That is to say that 23 years ago, tattooing in South Carolina was prohibited by law.
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Tattoo company and South Carolinians challenge state’s tattoo restrictions

Tiny Zaps and South Carolinians challenge state tattoo restrictions as unconstitutional limits on protected expression.
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05XR8 I didn't either. I like Toyotas a whole lot better than Eddie so if I'd seen it I would remember 😄
 
I'm sure we all know that the smell of rain in summer is called petrichor, but did you know that humans are 60,000 times more sensitive to it than sharks are to blood in water? I knew I was better than sharks at something but until now I couldn't define what it was.
 
Black Sabbath really did have a ridiculous incident with a wrongly sized Stonehenge monument on their 1983 tour, almost an exact reverse of what is depicted in the classic 'rockumentary', This is Spinal Tap.

The amazing thing is, however, that apparently the two things are completely coincidental... This Is Spinal Tap was made in 1982, and the Black Sabbath tour was in 1983 - however, the film was not released in the UK until 1984, and there's various interviews that explain how it happened, which was almost exactly as it happened in Spinal Tap - except instead of feet to inches (in the film), they made it in metres instead of feet, so it was 45 ft high :lol:

It proves one thing (that didn't need any further proof anyway...), and that's just how incredibly accurate Spinal Tap must have been. Some articles on it claim that Spinal Tap copied the idea for the film, but neglect to realise that Spinal Tap was made first.

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Remember When: Black Sabbath Had a Stonehenge Set that Was (Way) Too Big

Rock aficionados remember the epic scene in This Is Spinal Tap when the band are supposed to have a massive Stonehenge set piece lowered from the ceiling for a concert. Due to a mistake in the dimensions, the fake stone monolith that's lowered is in peril of being crushed by two dwarves hired to...
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