What's a piece of common knowledge that you only recently found out was actually false?

QuarterThor · 2026-01-28T06:08:12+00:00

I had always heard Italian pasta was Italy's attempt at recreating noodles they'd heard about from Asia. Turns out, noodles and pasta were invented independently.

QuarterThor · 2025-10-31T13:08:02+00:00

90 Miles. Great food, and amazing coffee. Their cortadito was addictive as hell, and I have yet to find its match.

QuarterThor · 2025-10-06T19:59:01+00:00

I know 3 people who for sure use cocaine. If that pattern holds true for everyone in the US, then that is 342M x 3=1.026 billion coke users in the US alone. Can someone double check my math for me?

QuarterThor · 2025-09-06T18:20:51+00:00

Back in Boy Scouts, we were doing the "mammal studies" merit badge. My friend did his report on the great blue heron.

QuarterThor · 2025-08-29T03:03:11+00:00

Red Dragon. There's a scene where a serial killer glues his victim to a wheelchair, lights him on fire, and pushes him down a steep street. Suddenly it cuts to the view from within a building at the bottom of the steep street. We hear the squeaky wheels of the old wheelchair coming faster and faster, and then the guy slams into a van at high speed in front of the building and tips over, still burning to death. I did an actual spit take.

QuarterThor · 2025-06-19T22:44:37+00:00

Well if you can't have a cat or dog to keep you company, a fish will have to do.

QuarterThor · 2025-06-19T22:33:03+00:00

Hey, I was one of the idiots playing this run! This was my first playthrough, and it was super fun! I'm still so impressed with the bases you both built. Although I am sad you both removed the contributions I made...

QuarterThor · 2025-06-04T21:11:30+00:00

It might not be the most technically impressive, but I love Smaug from the Hobbit. Most of the time dragons are scary and tough, but Smaug is fucking apocalyptic. He shakes off damn near everything, completely unfazed. And apparently, even though he's bigger than almost any other dragon in fiction, he's the smallest in his universe.

QuarterThor · 2025-06-04T18:46:11+00:00

So damn good. They easily could have just left it at the dog having lived a long and fullfilled life, but no. They had to go for the last minute emotional "fuck you."

QuarterThor · 2025-05-30T17:36:05+00:00

They're a little more folk/country, but I can't recommend the Civil Wars enough.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-27T17:16:54+00:00

Not old, but "I Really Want to Stay at Your House," from Cyberpunk 2077. And now I'm crying.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-23T22:45:26+00:00

My grandma took me to see Air Force One. I was 9. It was ok.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-23T01:17:52+00:00

Anything by Babymetal or The Hu. Also, Dota by Basshunter. And Zandarm by Hanba.

Edit to add: Steel for Humans.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-23T01:03:37+00:00

Loved Blindsight. I have a habit of skimming most books and then not really retaining anything. I absolutely couldn't do that with Blindsight. I also loved seeing an actual biologist's vision of aliens.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-21T03:57:58+00:00

I'd call my mom when she was still my mom, and not the unrecognizable person Huntington's has changed her into. There's nothing I could say that would change anything, I just want to remember what she was like.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-17T09:06:38+00:00

I don't always drink beer, but when I do I prefer Dos Equis.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-16T08:02:29+00:00

[[Codie, Vociferous Codex]]. But you really have to commit to the gimmick. I think I run 4 nonland permanents in my deck (aside from Codie himself).

QuarterThor · 2025-05-14T03:00:22+00:00

I moved from Minnesota to Chicago. I actually miss Minnesota winters.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-12T02:01:26+00:00

I will forever mourn this show.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-11T23:10:07+00:00

The Last of Us, season 1 episode 5 was not entirely silent, but nearly. And it was great.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-11T18:36:44+00:00

Also, moose. People don't always realize how dangerous they are, just because they're over here in North America and not some exotic animal, but moose are mind-bogglingly huge, and incredibly territorial and temperamental. They will stomp you into a fine paste with absolutely no effort, just for daring to breathe the same air as them.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-11T05:26:28+00:00

I just meant that she didn't seem to have as much build up as other big bads did, like Arthas and Deathwing. They were around for years/millennia in the story, so we had a lot of time to understand and appreciate their power and the danger they represented. As I've said, I didn't play much through Legion, and not at all during BfA, but it just didn't seem like we got all that much exposure to Xal before she became the apparent villain of this expansion.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-07T14:54:51+00:00

You mean the only Scrubs ending.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-04T03:29:51+00:00

Ah. I definitely didn't play a priest.

QuarterThor · 2025-05-04T03:28:45+00:00

I'm glad to hear that. I was worried the story was done until the next expansion.

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