2026-01-02: Academy Awards is just the official name of the Oscars! I thought it was something else!
2025-12-18: There's a British mush food called Faggot
2025-11-17: As and Ass aren't homophones...
2025-10-11: The Nato phonetic alphabet is actually based on a lot of research and testing to avoid similar sounding words. I assumed it was mostly vibes.
2025-09-15: CTRL+INSERT and SHIFT+INSERT are alternatives to CTRL+C and CTRL+V
2025-08-19: The reason why second (time) and second (number two) are the same word is not a coincidence. It's because the Romans(?) divided the hour into minutes, called "the first subdivision" (pars minuta prima), and seconds called "the second subdivision" (pars minuta secunda). For minutes, the "minuta" part stuck, and for seconds the "secunda" part did.
2025-08-12: TV-tropes originally only categorized tropes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2025-08-05: Did any typewriters exist that could print variable-width aka proportional text? Yes apparently :)
2025-08-04: Why is Eiffel pronounced /'ajfel/ in English as if it were German, instead of /e'fel/ or /ej'fel/ as if it were French? Ok it's because the surname is German and English speakers must have already been saying /'ajfel/ before Gustave built that tower so they didn't bother changing to his pronounciation.
2025-08-02: Buckets only stack to 16
2025-07-18: That's what Kepler said, but according to modern science he died of bad medicine, which he took because his bladder was bad, which started when he held his pee for too long, but maybe not because of it, but maybe.
2025-07-17: Tycho Brahe died because he held his pee for too long because "etiquette"
2025-07-17: Supernovas are called nova because people Tycho Brahe understandably thought of them as *new* stars
2025-07-28: Did any glitches actually occur because of y2k? Yeah kinda: Several babies were born at 100 years old, a Korean video store sent a fee of 8 million won for a rental which was 100 years overdue, 10% of Greece's receipts said 1900, a kindergarten in Norway offered a spot to a 105 year old woman, a hospital thought 154 women were over 100 years old which put them at risk for having children with Down syndrome which led to two abortions, and the US official standard date was briefly 1 Jan 19100.
2025-07-27: There's a crazy script called Bamum that a king in Cameroon around 1900 made
2025-07-21: There's a fun Unicode block called Symbols for Legacy Computing which includes among others: Stick figure with dress 🯉, left half running man 🮲, and middle third white right pointing index 🯂
2025-07-14: Basically all black and green tea is just one plant
2025-07-11: The inventor of scrabble was named Butts
2025-06-04: The king of hearts is often depicted with his sword in his head and is called the suicide king