Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Not only is it not well known, it's not true.

yes. it's common knowledge that yoda is obi-wan's father

I only recently learned that Gary Lewis is the son of Jerry Lewis. TBF, the music of Gary Lewis & the Playboys is not a thing I've ever had a conversation about with anyone ever so I'm not particularly surprised that his family ties have never come up.

Washington Redskins are not from Washington State.

For a long time, my wife thought the University of Connecticut sports teams (widely referred to as "UConn") came from Yukon.

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I'm certainly seeing a marked similaroty between the face of Yoda and that of Alec Guinnness.
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noticed it even more in the backdrop they had in one section ofThe Galaxy Britain Built where it looked slike Alec Guiness's face looking out from Yoda's bdy.

I assumed the similarity was an in joke from the production team. I'm certainly seeing a great similarity around the eyes. I was just surprised when I saw it that I hadn't noticed it before.
I now can't find the picture they used in that programme but it was towards the end.
So was wondering if it was something that had been remarked on much before.
I can't unsee it now that I've noticed it.

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dead ringers apart from the nose, eyes, chin, ears, color, shape of head and height

Alec Guinness rarely mangled his syntax as badly as Yoda.

Lol mookie

Spanish words ending in '_idad' are very often the same in English except you swap it with '-ity', so 'navidad/nativity, universidad/University. Therefore Trinidad is simply Trinity

So I guess in English we would say 'the drummer for gaeity'?

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according to wikipedia

The make-up artist Stuart Freeborn based Yoda's face partly on his own and partly on Albert Einstein's

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I finally looked up this week what TL:DR and TFW means.

Too lascivious; don't rub

I'm still really seeing that Froggy thing you see in Alec's face around the eyes.

The London Metropolitan Line no has no interior doors on its trains.
Didn't look as I sat down, proceeded to read, then realised i could see right down the train when I stood up to get off.

Guillermo and Benicio Del Toro aren't related

The more you know someone the more you're disappointed

The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy

More of a trilogy than The Hobbit.

The lord of the rings is a trilogy

Don't even come back with the books as designed argument

At the very least, turning it into 3 movies that track with those three parts is totally defensible.

That 'Teddy Ruxpin' is an animatronic toy teddy bear, and not the name of US Senator or similar.

That "pickles" are made from cucumbers, and later that pickles can refer to any preserved in brine vegetable.

not quite a "shockingly old" answer but... first time i saw "PED XING" road signs i thought they must be chinese or something.

"nothing" comes from "no thing", "none" comes from "not one"

The PED XING isn't helped by the way it's often XING PED when painted on the road.

not quite a "shockingly old" answer but... first time i saw "PED XING" road signs i thought they must be chinese or something.

the chinese word for pedestrian is XING REN so that is totally believable

That interstate exits are numbered according to the mile marker, so exit 230 is fifteen miles away from exit 215.

(TBF, I've only recently started driving again for the first time since I was a teenager.)

in Florida, that wasn't always the case. when I grew up, the exits were merely sequential with no regard for miles, so when I'd go from my house to Downtown Disney, I'd go from exit 49 to exit 26 but it would really be 26 miles and not 23. they renumbered them all in 2002 to match up with the mile markers. they had to write the old mile marker on the signs temporarily because people were getting massively confused with the number changes.

Our exit sign also has the mile marker attached to it, which always makes me go damn.

I mean, you might have an Exit 153 in your state, but we've got the Exit 153.

Yes, this changed in living memory.

The advantage of sequential exit numbering is knowing when your exit is next. "Just passed exit 66; that means 67 is next."

The disadvantage with sequential exit numbering is that sometimes new exits get built between existing ones, requiring everything to be renumbered. The exit numbers that are mile-based don't have that problem.

As Neanderthal notes, for a while there were signs that said the old exit number, for people navigating based on the previous system. I remember one near my parents' house that said "OLD EXIT 37," and I always thought it had an evocative folk-wisdom kind of ring, like "Old Engine 42" or "It's just old Luke and Luke's waiting on the judgement day."

Missouri blew my mind this year. Their mile markers are divided into tenths of a mile.

Exit 73.4!

They haven't gone that far, but I wish!

we have a lot of exits at the same mile marker here and they always add an A, B, or a C in sequence.

the chinese word for pedestrian is XING REN so that is totally believable

thought you were being funny but this turns out to be true!

Missouri blew my mind this year. Their mile markers are divided into tenths of a mile.

was gonna ask if this means they have a marker every tenth of a mile (!) but it turns out they only place them every fifth of a mile.

Aw, damn. You're right.

Missouri blew my mind this year. Their mile markers are divided into fifths of a mile!

They are fancy compared to the normal kind.

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srsly hoping pplains has a whole Pinterest page of "Highway Markers I Have Loved."

That cobwebs are made of old spiderwebs, and not, I dunno, magic old dust like I previously thought.

I only learned what pimento cheese is 2? years ago (thanks warmleatherette!) It is astonishingly delicious.

srsly hoping pplains has a whole Pinterest page of "Highway Markers I Have Loved."

More like a Geocities page with a midi of "In My Life" playing in the background.

You might even think I'm kidding about this, but...