I Learned Something Today

[Mandouga]

"NeGcon" (one of the first third-party accessories for the original PlayStation) is pronounced "neji-con", because it comes from the Japanese word "nejiru", which means "to twist".

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Towa Tei has the honour of being the first Japanese musician to score a UK top two hit as he was part of Deee-Lite when the American house-pop trio scored the number two hit "Groove Is in the Heart" in 1990.

 

[Spacething7474]

The 2005 French animated series Skyland: The New World (known outside of France as just Skyland) was initially planned to be targeted at adults.

 

[Mandouga]

"Rosetta" is a type of orbit, that's why Rosalina (from the Super Mario franchise) is called by that name in Japan.

 

[Spacething7474]

The 2018 Disney Channel Original Movie franchise Zombies was initially pitched as a show called Zombies & Cheerleaders during 2011 and 2012.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Today I learned that you cannot throw water on a lithium-ion battery if it catches fire, because the fire will be made worse. No, I'm not speaking from experience, thankfully...I just read it. They recommend throwing shovelfuls of sand over it instead, which is not something most houses keep around.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Eminem appeared in the music video for Korn's "Got the Life" before the release of his major debut album (second overall) The Slim Shady LP.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Birds Eye once did a line of instant ice cream sodas called Sodaburst back in the Sixties.

 

[Mandouga]

I learned at least three things recently:

Maaya Sakamoto is the voice of Rosetta (Rosalina) in the Japanese dubbed version of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", a song by the jazz/hip-hop fusion group Us3 contains a sample of "Cantaloupe Island" an instrumental recorded by jazz musician Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.

While many people know Popolocrois ("Popolo-croyce") Monogatari as a series of games, and later an anime, it actually started as a manga in the late 1970s.

 

[Spacething7474]

Franklin Nathaniel Jonas (the youngest brother of Paul Kevin Jonas II, Joseph Adam Jonas, and Nicholas Jerry Jonas), played the deuteragonist in the English dub of 2008's Ponyo (which was also the last anime as a whole to have a VHS release, which released in Japan on July 3, 2009), and would properly become a musican like his 3 older Jonas Brothers with the 2023 album Sewer Rat.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Only a few of the football stadiums designed by Scottish architect Archibald Leitch retain his original design nowadays due to redevelopment and demolition for some of them.

Archibald Leitch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mandouga]

David Cassidy is Shirley Jones' stepson. They were both in The Partridge Family.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Burger King wanted to do a collaboration with McDonald's for World Peace Day in 2015 called the McWhopper, which would've been exactly what it said on the tin, a burger that would've been a combination of the former's Whopper and the latter's Big Mac but McDonald's said no.

The Story Of Burger King's Ill-Fated McWhopper - Tasting Table

Back in August 2015, Burger King's marketing team went rogue and proposed the two rivals release the McWhopper on World Peace Day as a way to make amends.

www.tastingtable.com

 

[Markus]

I didn't realize until today that the Disney star Sabrina is now a singer.

 

[Mandouga]

I didn't realize until today that the Disney star Sabrina is now a singer.

As in Sabrina Carpenter?

EDIT (5-29-26):

I recently learned that there are seven...repeat, SEVEN English dubbed versions of Detective Conan. Two of them (the Animax and Odex dubs) were made for Southeast Asia, while one was made for India. The other four are:

the Funimation dub (the infamous one that renamed the show Case Closed, and changed the character names)

The Bang Zoom dub which includes the "episode one special", whatever that is, and some of the movies, which is still called Case Closed, but now uses the Japanese character names.

The Macias Group dub, which I understand picked up where Bang Zoom left off, but dubbed some of the later episoses, and featured new a cast.

The Studio Nano dub, which brings back the Detective Conan name, and which is released through Crunchyroll, and Netflix.

I think that's it. You might have to correct me on one or two of these.

VERY LATE EDIT (6-5-26): Caught a typo I completely missed.

 

[Mandouga]

It's been a week since the previous post...

Despite their most famous appearance (a certain game show about geography), Rockapella isn't exactly a family-friendly group. Some of their songs have swearing in them, including most infamously, "Zombie Jamboree", which they sang on "that" show, before they were caught by the censors and were told to knock it off.

 

[Chris]

0 is an even number.

 

[Spacething7474]

The 2000 single Who Let the Dogs Out by High Voltage/The Baha Boys/Baha Men is actually a cover of the 1998 Trinidadian song Doggie by Anslem Douglas.

 

[Mandouga]

There are at least three different "vampire ducks":

-Quackula (from Filmation's "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, and Quackula")

-Count Duckula (from Danger Mouse, and later his own show)

-Count "Drake-ula" (from the DuckTales episode "The Ducky Horror Picture Show"; he also appears in the NES game as "Count Dracula Duck", although here he has a completely different design)

EDIT:

I discovered that there is a series of family friendly detective/mystery books written by an author named Lauren Magaziner called "Case Closed", with the first book first published in 2019. It is of course, completely unrelated to "Detective Conan". This makes me wonder if that has anything to do with Detective Conan officially getting its original name back in North America...

 

[John Pannozzi]

There are at least three different "vampire ducks":

-Quackula (from Filmation's "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, and Quackula")

-Count Duckula (from Danger Mouse, and later his own show)

-Count "Drake-ula" (from the DuckTales episode "The Ducky Horror Picture Show"; he also appears in the NES game as "Count Dracula Duck", although here he has a completely different design)

EDIT:

I discovered that there is a series of family friendly detective/mystery books written by an author named Lauren Magaziner called "Case Closed", with the first book first published in 2019. It is of course, completely unrelated to "Detective Conan". This makes me wonder if that has anything to do with Detective Conan officially getting its original name back in North America...

There's also a "Duckula" (unrelated to the Danger Mouse character) created by Scott Shaw! and featured in the anthology comic book series "Quack". Shaw! almost sued Filmation for using his comics as reference when making Quackula.