The same thing happens to me with various things, roughly at a pace of 2-ish per year. It’s always weird. Like, apparently this thing has been common since the seventies, but somehow I stumbled about it only now and now I keep encountering it all the damn time!
I guess it’s a combination of your interests having changed a tiny little bit and your brain having ignored the unknown word as irrelevant until you learn about it. If you don’t believe, watch this short video and you will get what I mean:
The same thing happens to me with various things, roughly at a pace of 2-ish per year. It’s always weird. Like, apparently this thing has been common since the seventies, but somehow I stumbled about it only now and now I keep encountering it all the damn time!
I guess it’s a combination of your interests having changed a tiny little bit and your brain having ignored the unknown word as irrelevant until you learn about it. If you don’t believe, watch this short video and you will get what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
It annoys me that my human brain works like this. It means I cannot really trust it.