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

[Paraselene]

Tabaxi first appeared in Dungeons & Dragons in 1981's Fiend Folio for 1st Edition AD&D, created by Lawrence Schick as feline humanoids, though they gained wider popularity and more defined lore in later editions, especially 2nd Edition (Maztica setting) and 5th Edition, becoming a staple race.

https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/...%20setting.

[Rev. Rye]

So, yesterday, I got the new Criterion edition of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. It's a film with a fraught history and a lot of publicly available versions. I also own the 2005 DVD edition. Neither of the two editions share a single cut.

Version summary:
1) 1988 Preview Cut: An initial preview cut that started circulating in 1988. It was on the DVD, but evidently was too degraded for the Blu-Ray cut. Indeed, I can remember scenes where the audio malfunctioned, like it was playing from a tape.
2) Final Preview Cut: The last version that Peckinpah ever worked with. It was only rediscovered recently, and was good enough for a Blu-Ray transfer, but not a 4K release.
3) Theatrical Cut: The version that MGM saw fit to actually release in 1973. About the only good thing anyone had to say about it was that at least there was a great film in there demanding to get out. Once the 1988 cut started circulating, it was neglected, and nobody wanted this version on the DVD. But the original negative existed, so it was good enough to go on the Blu-Ray and even the 4K.
4) Television Cut: Like many other films, there was apparently a version made for TV broadcast that censored dirty words and nudity, and maybe included some deleted footage from the preview cuts. Existence is unconfirmed, so it's on neither the DVD or Blu-Ray.
5) Special Edition: Peckinpah scholar Paul Seydor had seen the Final Preview and wanted to reconstruct it according to his wishes. Unfortunately, it was rushed and underfunded. It was on the DVD, but not the Blu-Ray, because he finally got the chance to redo it...
6) 50th Anniversary Edition: A redux of the Special Edition with a sufficient amount of time and money (plus original editior Roger Spottiswoode), including the original materials and Peckinpah's preferred editing. On the Blu-Ray (with 4K).

[Rev. Rye]

Somehow, the biggest revelation of this episode of Tor's Cabinet is that someone actually tried to create a whites-only All-American Basketball Alliance. In 2010.

Yes, you read that correctly. An all-white league for a sport whose professional player base has been mostly black since the 1970s, in the modern day. For obvious reasons, it never took off.

[Paraselene]

That Zac Efron has a brother who's not as cute.

[Rev. Rye]

Just a friendly reminder, much of the world lives in a jurisdiction where cannabis is still illegal, but this is legal worldwide somehow:

[Fake Messiah]

[Angrboda]

The campus in D.C. that Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security is attempting to expand was formerly known as the Government Hospital for the Insane.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Johnny Cash hit ‘A Boy Named Sue’ was written by American author/poet/cartoonist/musician Shel Silverstein.

Boru

[awty]

We just found out the grandbaby due in March does NOT have Muscular Dystrophy. Wonderful news and a big exhalation of pure relief.

[Fireball]

We just found out the grandbaby due in March does NOT have Muscular Dystrophy.  Wonderful news and a big exhalation of pure relief.

Thank God scientific endeavor for that!