The 'I didnt know that' Thread
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Something I didn't know until recently is in Spyro Year of the Dragon, Agent-9's sublevel on Fireworks Factory has a power-up you can get from shooting a panel on the ceiling.
Had the game for over 20 years and never knew this! It makes the level a bit easier and I wish I had found out about it sooner.
Had the game for over 20 years and never knew this! It makes the level a bit easier and I wish I had found out about it sooner.
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A cool song I remembered listening to in the past had me wondering... I heard this part before! Well, I learned Flo Rida used samples from the ending parts of "Lowrider" by WAR for his song "Goin' Down For Real (GDFR)." I learned on another website that Flo Rida actually sampled a mix of some of the end parts of "Lowrider" for GDFR. You can hear those parts I'm mentioning in the chorus of "Goin' Down For Real." It only came to me recently that it was this certain part of "Lowrider" which sounded familiar to me.
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When I was still in the service, I was stationed at a base in Fairbanks, Alaska for three years.
That SAD is no joke. It was wild to see the sun come up just before 11 am and set before 3 pm. You eat dinner and you're ready for bed, but then you look at the clock and its only 630 pm or so. Conversely during the summer its at least just twilight at 2 am. The trick I was taught was to cover your bedroom windows with aluminum foil so you can sleep at night.
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I know this- Nobuo Uematsu is one of the greatest game music composers of all time. What I DIDN'T know, though, is that he composed the epically awesome main menu music to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I sadly never played any Super Smash Bros. after Melee.
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Something I didn't know until today is you can customize what buttons do what with controllers on Steam. This is fantastic to know because lately, I've been getting into PC gaming a bit more and have been wanting to use my PS4 to play my games. For years I relied on Xpadder for that, but I am pleased to see Steam already has something like it.
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I didn't know there are different names for Full Moons each month. This month (September), is the Harvest Moon, and it has nothing to do with the gaming series of the same name. I think the peak of the Harvest Moon will be on September 18th.
[OMISSION] The Harvest Moon namesake relates to encouraging farmers to farm better once this moon is out.
[OMISSION] The Harvest Moon namesake relates to encouraging farmers to farm better once this moon is out.
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And on the rare occasion that there's two full moons in a month, the second is a Blue Moon...hence the phrase "once in a blue moon" for something that happens rarely.
I like April's Pink Moon because of the Nick Drake album and title track.
I like April's Pink Moon because of the Nick Drake album and title track.
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Car related, I did not know Honda did this to a General Motors V8:
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How Honda Built A Better Chevrolet Impala Than Chevy
When underestimating the little guy backfires while the world is watching.
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Today I learnt there was an 'I didn't know that' thread. Reposting a couple of TILs from my profile comments:
- Anne Rice's birth name was Howard Allen O'Brien as her dad thought the girls in his family would go further with a boy's name. She dropped Howard for Anne as soon as she
hit kindergartenreached first grade.
- The swooping steel guitar twang at the beginning of Looney Tunes cartoons was played by Freddie Tavares who co-designed the Stratocaster guitar with Leo Fender.
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