TIL

I saw a website do this and thought it was a great excuse to bring this capsule back to life!

2025

November 2025

3/11/2025 - Van is shortened from "Caravan", which means a vehicle that carries things. (Literally a "Carry Van")
3/11/2025 - There's a difference between a Firetruck and Fire Engine. A firetruck has rescue equipment whereas a Fire Engine has fire extinguishing equipment.
3/11/2025 - Bus is short for "omnibus", which means "Carriage for everybody" in Latin

October 2025

28/10/2025 - Chick Hicks is voiced by Michael Keaton.
26/10/2025 - Clancy Brown, who voices Mr Krabs and is in several live action films such as Highlander and Shawshank Redemption, also does the voice for Doctor Neo Cortex in Crash Bandicoot.
25/10/2025 - The voice actor for T.J. in Recess, Andrew Lawrence, also voice acted Nick Ramos in Dead Rising 3
18/10/2025 - Rollerskates and Rollderblades aren't synonyms. Rollerskates have a 2x2 wheel layout, whereas rollderblades have all the wheels lined up single file.
12/10/2025 - The year 1582 didn't have the dates from 5th-14th October due to the Catholic Church switching from the Julian to the Gergorian calendar.
11/10/2025 - J.R.R. Tolkien loved England, but hated the British State and Empire. He also described himself as an Anarchist and said Winston Churchil looks like a criminal compared to Joseph Stalin.

September 2025

27/09/2025 - The Japanese word for Toy is "Omocha". This would explain the character Omochao's name.
21/09/2025 - V-Tech made a successor to the V.Smile called the "V.flash" in North America and "V.Smile Pro" in Europe and has primitive 3D capabilities comparable to the original Playstation and the Nintendo 64!
19/09/2025 - Duke Nukem and Big the Cat have the same voice actor; Jon St. John
13/09/2025 - Buff Bagwell, a former WCW wrestler, has his own Youtube channel which he uploads to regulary. He recently had his leg amputated...

June 2025

23/06/2025 - The Japanese word for Police car is "Patoka", which sounds oddly cute. Like the name of a ChoroQ character or VTuber.
01/06/2025 - There are many types of traditional playing cards. The one used in the anglosphere (1-King, hearts, diamonds etc) are the French cards. Italy has it's own cards, and games to go with them. My cousin was teaching me how to play one.

May 2025

29/05/2025 - There exists a "D" language that was supposed to be the successor to C++
29/05/2025 - The etymology of the name C# comes from the fact it was a successor to C++. The idea is that ++++ can also be represented as #.
24/05/2025 - Nick Clegg, former leader of the Liberal Democrats in England, later moved to the US to become an executive of Facebook. He has since been replaced. I found all of this out when he spoke out against those criticising Facebook's use of AI...
01/05/2025 - I learned of Karl Ulrichs, who was the first person to discover that homosexuality is just something you're kinda born with rather than it being a choice. He announced his findings and in that same announcement came out as gay himself. This was in the 1860s, so that took some guts. Proud of him. 🫡

Backdated (From Discord)

Earlier 2025

10/04/2025 - Spotify has a store where they sell CDs and Vinyl albums
30/05/2025 - David Hasselhoff did a Pingu song.
14/03/2025 - Monkeys also engage in war over ethnicity/territory
18/02/2025 - There's a factory in China making new floppy disks!

April 2021 - February 2024

04/02/2024 - You can bootleg HD-DVDs using Dual Layered DVDs.
18/12/2023 - That 90s trend of electronics with transparent shells has a name: "Clear Craze"
15/11/2023 - Sealand has an American Football team: The Sealand Seahawks.
04/02/2023 - AAA Batteries are a thing.
24/04/2021 - There was an Italian version of Art Attack

February 2021

22/02/2021 - Rollercoaster Tycoon was concieved by, and still owned by, a Scottish programmer; Tom Saywer.
21/02/2021 - Rugrats and other Nicktoons shows got Scottish Gaelic dubs. These are lost media, however.
14/02/2021 - Dan Aykroyd is on the Autism Spectrum.

January 2021

23/01/2021 - The High Five was invented in 1977.
22/01/2021 - There are 2 English football teams that play in the Scottish Premier League.

October 2020

24/10/2020 - The famous button meme is based off a Timesplitters 2 character.
03/10/2020 - The Voice Actor for Dr. Robotnik in AoSTH (The "Pingas" one), Long John Baldry, also did some voices for some Reboot episodes.

August 2020

05/08/2020 - The music known for being played in Circuses was originally a military march song called "Entry of the Gladiators".

February 2020

18/02/2020 - Fireman Sam, a show I used to watch as a toddler, is a Welsh show. It was first made in Welsh for the their public broadcaster S4C.
07/02/2020 - There is a duck called "Goldeneye"

January 2020

20/01/2020 - The PS4 actually uses a modified version of FreeBSD for it's internal OS.
01/01/2020 - The first instance of region locking in games was by Atari of Turkey in 1980, who soldered the pins of the VCS in reverse to avoid Turkish people importing games from other countries.

November 2019

19/11/2019 - There are penguins living in Australia
18/11/2019 - George Forman has 5 sons. All of which are named George.
23/09/2019 - There were more PS2 Eye-Toys sold than the Sega Dreamcast... that's kind of depressing.

June 2019

12/06/2019 - There was a Half-Life 2 arcade game.

April 2019

23/04/2019 - Colniel Sanders was a real person.
13/04/2019 The founder of Kodak commited suicide at age 77 and left a note saying "My work is done. Why wait?"
13/04/19 - The IRS were using 1960s computer technology to automate tax returns until 2018.
04/04/2019 - Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, is creating esentially a sequel called "Solid", which is made to be more modular and decentralised.
04/04/2019 - The Civillian class from Team Fortress Classic is technically playable in Team Fortress 2 through a glitch, but has no model, so you'll look like another class permanently stuck in the reference pose.
02/04/2019 - The Nuon, a failed spiritual successor to the Atari Jaguar, was allegedly the reason the PS2 has a a DVD player built in. Kuturagi was scared the Nuon would dominate, so convinced Sony to add in the DVD player.

March 2019

30/03/2019 - Fax was first invented in 1843.
29/03/2019 The headphones jack is the last fully analog thing your average joe still uses on a regular basis, and has been around for 150 years.
23/03/2019 - Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, an infamous 3DO game, has a speedrunning community.
23/03/2019 - The developer of Hong Kong 97 actually came out and confessed that the game was made with the goal to create the worst game possible.
16/03/2018 - Star Wars Kid, someone who became an internet fad in 2003, is now a laywer.

October 2018

08/10/2018 - There exists a Canadian Thanksgiving Day

September 2018

23/09/2018 Florence, Italy is twinned with Edinburgh in Scotland, and Kyoto in Japan
13/09/2018 - There exists a Korean church in my city. ?
03/09/18 - Parapsychology is a thing, which is the study of phenomena like telekinesis, telepathy and ki, parapsychologists believe that if these are real, then they must share a common source.

August 2018

29/08/2018 - "Nice Girls" exist, who are the female version of "Nice Guys". Basically people who claim to be nice but aren't, and go mask off when rejected by a love interest.
15/08/2018 - There existed a Hong Kong National Party (HKNP), who were seeking Hong Kong independence from China.

July 2018

20/07/2018 - Indicators lights and backlights share the same lights in North America, which explains why a busted tail light is such a big deal there.
07/07/2018 - 3 Sided Football is a thing. This variant is more based on chaos than strategy.
07/07/2018 - San Marino's national football team, who has the worst win/loss record in history, also holds the record of the quickest goal ever scored in FIFA history, with a goal scored just 8 seconds after kick-off.
01/07/2018 - Iran's youth is rebelling against their strict Islamic laws, and things like Punk Rock, Metal and Skateboarding is becoming popular there.

June 2018

29/06/18 - Sealand has a prince, it's own currency and a national football team, despite the country only having a population of 27.
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