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TIL just how little electricity inverter air-conditioners add up to the monthly power bill. The upfront price tag makes me wanna cry, but gotdamn if it ain't so worth it in the long run.
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TIL that the official Church of Satan considers the symbol of 666 to be…. just numbers, lol. Not a part of Satanism but prevalent enough in public consciousness that they’ll just be shit disturbers and “uphold” it to troll superstitious people who are afraid of numbers.
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Today I learned that the Alola games, in the main timeline at least, apparently take place 19 years after RBY.
Someone at The Other Pokémon Wiki took Porygon's US/UM Dex entry saying that it had been created 20 years prior, cross-referenced it with an obscure piece of information about Porygon being created a year before RBY, and got that result. That means the Red and Blue we see in the Alola games are 30, not 20-21 as I had previously assumed. That's kind of wild. |
TIL that the only reason Porygon exists is to spite the "Go for 3D crowd"
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Til the name of the Germanic God Wodan, the older form of the Norse God Odin, comes from the old high German word wuot, meaning "insane" from "wods"- angry, obsessed and the old English "wod"=raving. In modern German wut means rage/ fury/ wrath.
I thought that was interesting, and made sense because Wodan was depicted as a wild rider leading the hunt and otherworldly spirits, a primal figure, associated with being carried emotional extremes, the powerful forces of nature- winds, storms and the chaos of battle, turning warriors into wolves and bears etc. The name Wodan has other variations Wode, Wotan, Woide, Wods, Wuotes all linked to shamanic trances and an altered state of mind to achieve it by. |
Today I learned about the fascinating history of Anime Mate, a Japanese anime merch website that was popular and then fell in popularity because people didn't read one announcement about shipping being stopped.
...And then I learned, they were within the area where the 2011 earthquake in Japan occurred. |
Til I learned that Loki the trickster spirit from folklore and mythology is the ancestor of trolls. I mean that quite literally. I came across this text in a translation of the poem “Voluspa en Skamma” in The Poetic Edda–Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes.
Loki ate a woman’s heart He found it Half-burned On a burning Linden tree. Loki became pregnant from that dead witch And from their child Come all the troll women. |
TIL that Radical Red has an Easy Mode. I might give it a try after all lol.
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That 'hiccup' is spelt 'hiccough' in British English because some person looked at the word a few centuries ago and thought "oh, this is something you do with your throat kind of like a cough, it has nothing to do with a cup, let's fix the spelling" and created that monstrosity.
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TODAY I LEARNED MILOTIC IS 20 FEET TALL AND I AM BOTH SCARED AND HORRIFIED BY THIS INFORMATION.
//panic post what do you mean this pretty fish pokemon is TWENTY FEET TALL? |
TIL that everyone's favourite overrated song, Megalovania, is actually "inspired by" Megalomania, the boss theme from Live A Live that I have been listening to for the last several days in-game thinking it sounded *vaguely* familiar thematically and had no idea it was actually called that until I went looking for another track on Youtube.
Iiiinteresting. |
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Also, today I learned about the 2005 theme park Pokepark. |
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The song used for Ice Cap Zone in Sonic 3 is actually a rip from Hard Times by The Jetzons, as Brad Buxer (the keyboardist from the band) was involved in the game's soundtrack along with MJ (who went on to use stuff from the soundtrack for his song Stranger in Moscow, iirc). |
Not so much 'learned' but reminded why I've hated walking barefoot since childhood.
Went outside the door and almost stepped straight onto a screeching alien looking bug. Back to shoes for me. |
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A long time ago I was outside with my sister when she stepped on a velvet ant. (also called Cow Killer Ant). Her screaming was blood curdling. I almost never go outside anymore without protecting my feet. Became careless because it was extremely early and my dog wanted outside. |
Ouch.
Valid reasons not to want to go outside without shoes... |
TIL Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry was called Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times in the US, and it had a vastly superior classical soundtrack.
...and both go for over £100 on eBay now. Thank god my mother has a copy of it... |
Not as much learnt as much as realized: in Germany we don't have an equivalent to a gender neutral they/them. However, we do have something that comes kinda close. When talking with strangers/coworkers/... and doing stuff like writing job applications we make use of a "polite (in a professional sense) form". This form is in third person plural, as well. And, of course, part of the reason why it's useful is because not always is the receiver (and therefor their gender) of a letter known.
However, one of the main reasons why it fails as a good replacement to the English they/them is the distance it creates between the two people who are interacting with each other in that manner. The purpose of politeness weighs very heavily. Germany is kinda obsessed with it in that regard. ^^" |
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I didn't learn this exactly today, but I thought it was kind of neat learning Copperajah has a special G-Max move which sets up Steel Stealth Rocks. It's the only way possible to use those.
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Learned about "Sabbath Mode" on ovens. Basically disables things likes lights and timers. Eliminates the twelve-hour automatic shutoff too, for use all day long. Exists for people who are religious and forbidden to work on the Sabbath. Created refrigerators with this mode as well.
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Today I learned Lady Gaga is playing Harley Quinn in the Joker sequel.
I mean, I see the brilliance in this casting, but it took me by surprise. |
The number of the 1 inch attachment on clippers so I can just buy my own and cut my own hair!
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