Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Seriously, the term "Lisztomania" is by Heinrich Heine, 1844.

phony lisztania has bitten the dust

Sense of "fad, craze, enthusiasm resembling mania, eager or uncontrollable desire" is by 1680s, from French manie in this sense. Sometimes nativized in Middle English as manye. Used since 1500s as the second element in compounds expressing particular types of madness (such as nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890), originally in Medical Latin, in imitation of Greek, which had a few such compounds, mostly post-classical: gynaikomania (women), hippomania (horses), etc.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mania

I believed 'tulip mania' (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was used either already during or shortly afterwards the actual 17th century tulip craze, but I can't find a source to confirms this right now.

ergotmania not a medieval dance craze then?

I know Lisztomania is a film with Roger Daltrey as the titular musical hero named after his fandom.

I have no idea how I never realized that Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted was Jane Wiedlin.

She was great! Also in Clue.

I learned these things because I noticed while watching Star Trek IV that she had an out-of-the-blue five-second cameo as a face on a screen and then discovered that she had an actual filmography.

I believed 'tulip mania' (Dutch: _tulpenmanie_) was used either already during or shortly afterwards the actual 17th century tulip craze, but I can't find a source to confirms this right now.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Allegorie_der_Tulipomanie.jpg

tulips=tendies

a friend of mine calls chicken tenders Chicken Tendies, and i can never get it out of my head

Better than "nuggs"

What fossils really are

what was your confusion?

really into swatch

I thought they were just like, prints, rather than actually containing the dead thing. I think they can be prints too, but mainly they’re not that

yeah, fossils can often be footprints or skin imprints or anything else that's an imprint but it's also organic material that petrifies. you weren't too far wrong really!

also c/f the Pompei figures which are plaster casts of the voids left where people were caught in the ash

Maybe dont google bog bodies but do because awesome

I thought fossils were essentially organic material replaced by minerals.

That The Real World is still running. If you’d asked me to guess I’d have said it was cancelled around the turn of the century

is Puck still on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bog_bodies
(applies both xp and not xp)

thought fossils were essentially organic material replaced by minerals.

Me too, Alba.

LOL, Neanderthal.

That the, to me, extremely boring and clunky name Denis/Dennis derives from Dionysius.

dirty dionysius

Dionysius the Menace

Dionysius Rodman

Dionysius Thatcher

Les Dionysius

Oh Dionysius doo-be-do
I'm in love with you, Dionysius doo-be-do

Claire Dionysius
Dionysius Hopper

Dionysius and the Belmonts

JUst had a filmmaker say taht they built the house in parasite for the film. She was comparing budgets with something she was working on.
Hadn't realised that at all. Assumed some of it would have been built elsewhere as in at least filmed, as I think things are normallly done

It was still in theatres a year ago

Dionysius Bergkamp
Dionysius van der Geest
Dione de Graaff
Dionysius DeYoung

Sir Dionysius Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD, CStJ

Dionysius Nilsen

How old were you when you discovered that the TV suburb Erinsborough is an anagram of “Or Neighbours”?

— Craig Parkinson 💙 (@CParkinson535) February 6, 2021

I was about 9 when someone told me that Erinsborough was an anagram of Neighbours, and 9 when I was disappointed to work out that it wasn't.

"axl rose is an anagram for oral sex"

w. axl rose is an anagram for oral swex

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:07 PM (nine years ago)

Flour is considered a raw ingredient. That is, it needs to be cooked completely to kill bacteria, you're supposed to wash your hands and surfaces after working with it, etc.

if you don't wash your hands and surfaces after working with flour, you've got worse problems than eating spoonfuls of it.

No I just have flour everywhere, forever

it's not fair, there was time now

bloody fariners

It was like last year but i was still really old when i learned that a very significant reason pre-modern agricultural ppl had such destroyed teeth was that the milling skills of their societies sucked and they had rocks and shit in their food.

Off topic— also vermin.

I’d like to revoke my medieval shaming and just amend to “milling is hard.”

The Rime of the Ancient Fariner

Well, I'm hot blooded
Check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three

Redd Foxx's birth name was John ... Sanford!