What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Foxaèr]

That Nutbush is a thing.

Looked it up and am disappointed.

Saw it on a show. Didn't recognize the song or the singer.





Who knew Australians were that much into Tina Turner.

[The Valkyrie]

Looked it up and am disappointed.

Saw it on a show. Didn't recognize the song or the singer.





Who knew Australians were that much into Tina Turner.

As much as I love the music of Tina Turner, I don't love it so much that I'd make a public spectacle of myself by dancing as if I have a broom up my arse.

[no one]

I just learned that a gag order prevents you for testifying on your on behalf during your hush money trial.

[brewer]

Vampires can 'glamour'. When did that become the word for vampire mind/psychic control?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Vampires can 'glamour'. When did that become the word for vampire mind/psychic control?

2008.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

Vampires can 'glamour'. When did that become the word for vampire mind/psychic control?

2008.

Boru

Glamouring I can deal with.  Sparkling is a whole other thing.

[Foxaèr]

Discovered Patrick Cowley.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Prior to the advent of antiparasitic drugs, horse breeders used goldfish to prevent worms in horses. The worm eggs would live in watering troughs, and goldfish were place in the water to eat the eggs.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

I’m only a fraction of the way into Novum’s new video about Midsommar, and it turns out that, for all its inaccuracies, Ari Aster still did an INSANE amount of research into Swedish and Norse mythology and fairy tales.

Case in point: this famous picture that’s on Dani’s wall.

A lot of fans took a liking to the picture, and many will say it foreshadows what happens to Christian in the end. But they don’t know exactly why. It’s worth noting that Ari Aster himself said that there was one thing he found in his research that convinced him that this was the right way to take out Christian:





Well, it’s part of a fairy tale called Oskuldens vandring. The plot involves a young princess going out into the forest for the first time in her life. She ends up losing everything (an obvious metaphor for a loss of innocence) as she annoys most of the forest’s animal inhabitants. I’ll spare you the details, but here’s two of them: 1) one of the first things she loses is her gown. She sheds it herself because it’s too damn hot. 2) closer to the middle of the story, she encounters a bear, in the scene portrayed in the painting. What’s she doing? She’s comforting the bear. Why? Because it’s so hot and it can’t take its skin off to cool down like she did her gown.

The impressive thing: this particular fairy tale is obscure, and as you can guess from my use of the original Swedish in the title, it was never given a proper translation into English. And it doesn’t seem like the volume it was originally a part of was ever properly digitized. The only copies Novum could find for sale cost (if XE is any indication) over $400 and were in fragile condition. It took finding a reseller willing to take photos of every page and email them to him to find it out.

And with all this in mind, I can only assume that this ultra-obscure fairy tale was what inspired Ari Aster.

[Fake Messiah]

A photograph from New York City in 1893 shows the amount of horse manure that accumulated on the streets each day.