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[Sylverone]

Be honest, folks. how many of you have discovered something in dwarf fortress only to immediately crack a dictionary or go online to find out exactly what it is. Now how many of you have done this more than once?

I know I have. And I've learned things. Maybe not all of them immediately useful to me, but I generally consider any increase in knowledge a good thing.

My uncle recently got a malachite crystal ball. I would not have previously known there was mineral called malachite if it weren't for Dwarf Fortress. I also seem to remember looking up what a braise was.

So, without too much sarcasm, what real-life knowledge has dwarf fortress taught you, or caused you to look up?

[Slappy Moose]

Always make sure that small people have enough beer to keep them from beating each other (or more importantly, you) up.

[Rictus]

Knowing what pitchblende was (not from DF itself, but from one of the Future of the Fortress threads), and then when it just happened to come up in a pub quiz a few weeks back I was instantly fire out the answer.

We still lost.

[Jreengus]

I learned the word procrasination, it must have been invented with me in mind.

[Jikor]

I learned Kittens are a viable food source due to their high reproduction rate.

[umiman]

That Toady really likes gibbons.

Grey, white-handed, black-handed, siamang...

[lastofthelight]

I learned about and watched the movie Labyrinth. I also learned that irrigation ditches made of ice are poor ways to conduct magma; especially into large pool chambers made of ice right beside your main hall.

[Dasleah]

I learnt that stupidity and sentience are seemingly the same thing. Idiocy bridges the species barrier.

[Fourth Triad]

I learned that there are more types of opals than every other type of gem combined... Or toad just has a thing for opals left out most of the other gem sub types.

[Dwarmin]

1. Watch out for Turkeys
2. If you have a problem, complain directly to the mayor and rip his/her lungs out.
3.Why were doing bad in Iraq-we need to provide booze breaks for our soldiers or they will keep on taking breaks.
4.President Bush could have me hammered anytime he wants.

[Skyrage]

Babies can go insane.

[BathosAndPathos]

That people in the medieval ages lived in unburnable wooden houses.

[ShunterAlhena]

Geography. I broke out my old geography book (which I hated with a passion back then) from cold storage so that I could learn about volcanoes, plate tectonics, stone types, ores etc - solely to find out where I should dig for iron.  

Then I met a girl two weeks later who is studying to be a geologist at the university. She was most impressed by my perceived vast knowledge and that netted me a couple of good hours   go DF!

[Duke 2.0]

Jreengus Occurred

But really, after playing I started to research game-creation in Python. You know what resources I found for making tiles? None. I learned that it's freaking hard to learn above-basic programming over the interwebs.

[Mr.Person]

Olms. What more do you need?