I was unable to find sources for all of the lore mentioned in the tags, but here are the sources I did find if anyone is interested!
the Traveler was named after the basketball foul
most of the surviving pre-Collapse data is "smut"
-> like when Glint was talking to a Cryptarch about Halloween history and he just had a Halloween porno magazine
Antarctica is widely considered a myth
Ikora once floated the idea of Zavala marrying Caiatl "to secure the Alliance"
Petra flunked out of wizard school
Ikora compared Mara to Lucifer and Sauron Fëanor / J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion exist in Destiny universe
Ikora is a "5th sigma Guardian"
Xûr met and gave Skolas a ship before straight up disappearing
Levaszk being allergic to pine nuts
pineapples still exist but are very rare and a lot of people have no clue what they are
one of the guys who overthrew Calus was named Moli Imoli
Ulurant can have cockney accents
there is a snack brand that uses Zavala in its branding (Zavala Action Snacks)
there's a partially translated Uluran recipe in the Vanguard's archives
Cayde is really bad with computers
Osiris doesn't seem to care for candy all that much, but he'll eat them if Saint gives him some
Drifter had been stashing weapons in that vending machine in the [Annex] hallway
Caiatl Calus and [his] legions playing their own version of fantasy football
karaoke evidently having survived the Collapse
the Cryptarchs believe that sheepdogs are mythical creatures like centaurs; they also believe that lumberjacks are mythical creatures
Thanatonauts have licenses
pre-Awoken Mara Sov seeing her coworker's head obliterated by a frozen rabbit embryo in orbit
Drifter and Rahool were all but canonically a thing
Marasenna calling a milk dispenser a "cow-thing"
the nuggets of the chicken and the beer of the root
Rasputin threw satellites from orbit at Felwinter in attempts to kill him once he was rez'd
people used to have like Cyberpunk-level body mods pre Collapse *(note: Crown Six is a highly modified Exo, not a human)
the Darkness gives you a foot upgrade (Sathona only had 2 toes on each foot before the siblings communed with the Deep, but Savathûn has 3 toes per foot)
there is a Hunter named Ghost
Only female Cabal have tusks. Therefore Ignovun, Chosen of Caiatl, is a femboy.
Guardians mapped the Red Legion communications network by dancing
similar lore: D1 "secret missions"
Osiris had an ability to become invisible (or at least less visible)
Riven seems to know you didn't get that 1k voices to drop after the raid
Spider owns The Starry Night
Shaxx can recite The Tempest
Saladin is bad with chopsticks
"coffee" is only mentioned 20 times while "tea" is mentioned over 1000 times ☕️🍵