Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Anthony Perkins's wife Berry (who was also Marisa Berenson's sister) died on 9/11 on American Airlines Flight 11.

He led an interesting life.

Perkins reportedly had his first heterosexual experience at age 39 with actress Victoria Principal

aka Victorian Principles

that the accent in "telepathy" is on the 3rd syllable, not the second

#wordsyoureadinbooks

i've absolutely heard both out loud tho?

I’ve only ever heard the second, source?

and prob 90% of the time, i hear it on the 2nd, and also, everywhere i have now checked online is also 2nd lol i am confused

(xp)

accent on path in telepath, accent on lep in telepathy <-- how I break it down to an extent

sorry I meant "telepathic" not "telepathy"

I was just informed of this by a coworker, so grain of salt etc.

oh yeah it's def telePATHic

sleeve had you been saying/thinking te-LEH-puth-ick?

there is no wrong way to say anything if you can reasonably be understood and anyone who wont take a step towards you in such instances should be beaten and hung imo this is how we start to heal the wounds of the world

agreed in all cases except for ppl saying hung instead of hanged

Unlucky men are hanged, lucky men are hung.

Drag em hadrian

i can accept this

My embarrassing geography-related example is that Denmark isn't, and has never been, an island. I can't even really remember why I thought it.

Could be because a large part of its landmass consists of islands, where the majority of Danes live, and the capital is on one of those islands too.

Yes.

Irish presence in the Roman army, under the category atecotti. Apparently 3 units in the armies of each of the 2 major parts of the Roman Empire the East and the West.
I was at a lecture by a guest speaker done for the local university's Classics dept. Th espeaker was suggesting also that the ogham alphabet seemed to be devised with an order that suggested familiarity with the latin alphabet. He went on to say that this was probably someone who had been in the Roman Army. I don't have all of his evidence and workings but this does sound like something worth looking further into.

I have taken a couple of classes in Irish recently and noted how far from phonetic the use of letters in spelling appears to be. I would have thought that if you were going to borrow a way of representing sounds as letters you would at least attempt to stick to what those letters denoted in the language you were taking them from. There has been several hundred, or close to 2 thousand years for things to drift away from their original values but still seems to be a major element of non correlation. Also viewing things from a knowledge of English is possibly a distorting mirror in itself.
Anyway I was just sitting there in the class going how am I ever going to learn to spell phonetically. & maybe that isn't the way you spell in the language. Which is even more confusing.
I had wondered at what point the alphabet had been borrowed and what was in use before hand. I was aware taht the monks in the West coast here had been among the most learned scholars on Latin and Greek in the 8th century from a History module that I did at the University 20 years ago.

The speaker was also saying that it was likely that there were a bunch of people permanently located on Irish soil or whatever it was called at the time. He said there were 2 locations on the East Coast where it was likely there were people placed to trade for commodities with the locals which would then be shipped back to Roman occupied Britain.

I missed the very beginning of the talk but i think he was saying that faced with the amount of cost it would take to invade Ireland and then keep an occupying force there was prohibitive. & it was probably better to try to trade with them.

He also had a suggested etymological source for the word Scotti in a gaelic word meaning broken or exiled or something similar describing groups of people who had been exiled for various reasons from their home tribes in Ireland to places in the West coast of what is now the UK. & that that terminology was later extended to the peoples they were exiled from in what is now Ireland.
There was also the other term for a population of this Island in that word atecotti or its myriad alternative spelllings

the existence of “millennial pink”

^ underrated Tori Amos album

For a long time I thought that the band name Kraftwerk was a playful spelling of "craftwork" rather than an actual German word.

It means Power Plant doesn't it?
Which might be kind of antithetical to what one's first assumption as a different language speaker would be.

I have never to this day considered that the game Scrabble is named for clutching at the letter tiles when you grab them from the unused pool.

whoa, me neither.

hm some Google research suggests that's not the literal reason - or at least nobody else makes the connection. It was called Lexico and other names before being renamed.

i guess i’d thought that it was one letter away from “scramble” and “scribble” which kind of tie in with its crossword origins

https://i.imgur.com/6u0k5EO.jpg

When I was a child, I read 'shavers' as meaning 'people who shave' and I'm not sure I've ever consciously corrected this notion till now.

strictly 4 my shaverz

RIP

https://i.imgur.com/EF4lzLA.jpg

I never realized how much Rhode Island and Indiana look alike. When I was a kid, I had one of those "United States" puzzles and I still never knew that.

https://images.sunfrogshirts.com/2014/07/20/Indiana-Girl-in-Rhode-Island.jpg

They have a shirt or blanket for everything these days.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61G1zjjOqFL._AC_SX466_.jpg

Old poker buddy of mine had a tattoo of Rhode Island, which I mistook for Georgia the first time I saw it.

Just found out that not only does the regular edit of 'Big' not have the ending scene where Susan turns herself into a child and joins the class, the scene wasn't even on the extended cut DVD and plenty of people out there don't even believe it exists.

^ this is a classic misremembering - that scene never existed but lots of people are convinced it did!

It did exist, I watched it again recently and was surprised it wasn't there, searched for it on YouTube and found people arguing about it on reddit.

that seems like a bizarre twist to me

Yes, it is a silly ending that doesnt make sense, it was memorable for this reason.

THe existence of and amount of complementary currencies in various areas around the world.
I think they are mainly used to try to bolster the local economy and mainly to keep whatever money is in circulation actually in circulation. Because the interest rate of stashing them somewhere is too low to be of interest and they're not being siphoned off to fund things elsewhere.
& they have to remain complementary currencies to actually work because if they become alternative currencies they automatically fallprey to the problems with mainstream currencies.

Was in a film called Tomorrow or probably originally Demain since it's a French film crew that made it.

Well if you can find any evidence of that scene existing, you'll be the first one

not only does that scene not exist, nor has it ever existed, but the post in which camaraderie supposedly referenced it is itself actually a myth and does not exist

That BIg scene never happened.

And I remember a lot about that movie, like how dude's birthday was the same as mine.

I know it wasn't in the US edit or the one in cinemas here, it was in some weird TV edit only, we used to get a lot of those.

This appears to be what you're looking for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6783tkwbZw0

it's not, no.

You're thinking of the alternate ending to that movie where Sinbad played the genie who killed Nelson Mandela.

No, those things are not real, this thing is real. 🤔👍

i have a friend who knows penny marshall so i got penny’s number and just texted and asked her, she says this alt ending story is bullshit, so...