So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?

[Sherlockian]

One of the foremost shapers of rabbinic Judaism in the third century CE was so beautiful that he sat in front of the ritual bathhouse so when women walked by they would see him and when they went home to their husbands, they would think about him, and then their kids would be hot. Also he had a Situationship with a former-gladiator turned-bandit that he encountered while naked in the Jordan, and subsequently married off to his sister.

[Great Joe]

There's a certification process for USB cables just for Android Auto.

[Lumbermouth]

The original theme for Iron Chef is an orchestral piece from the Backdraft soundtrack called Show Me Your Fire Truck

[A Meat]

Theodoric and Theodore are unrelated names with different origins and histories, Theodoric being Germanic theudo (people) combined with riks (meaning ruler/king, from the same proto-indo-european root as latin 'rex' or Hindi 'raja') while Theodore is Greek and comes from theos (god) and doron (gift)

[xX_sp00ks_Xx]

Mara Wilson is Ben Shapiro's cousin.

[A Meat]

The West Nile Virus is named after the Ugandan region of West Nile, which is the region of Uganda west of the White Nile

[vaMpiresoftWare]

Yamaha owns Line 6.

[A Meat]

Beaker and pitcher are doublets, both originating from bicarium, Latin for 'drinking glass', itself probably from a Greek word that meant vase

[PaulLovesToLaugh]

I learned that WW1 started in part because Austria-Hungary wanted a railroad thru Bosnia but only had Ottoman permission to build a road. So the Austro-hungarians decided to just annex Bosnia in 1908.

[PaulLovesToLaugh]

I learned that the food industry will add powdered milk to regular milk to get the combined milk to the correct amount of milkiness.

I don't know if this is a common practice or something only done in a pinch. The quora post didn't specify.

[A Meat]

Zhou Youguang, the guy who invented pinyin, died in 2017, at the age of 111

[Sherlockian]

My father did meth once, but only because he thought it was cocaine

[A Meat]

male elephants produce more temporin (the gross fluid that sometimes elephants leak out of the sides of their heads) when they go into musth (the elephant equivalent of rut)

[Shell Game]

The original theme for Iron Chef is an orchestral piece from the Backdraft soundtrack called Show Me Your Fire Truck

Hell yeah it is

[A Meat]

the term "freelance" comes from the novel Ivanhoe