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Whenever I come across something new, I like to look at Wikipedia pages related to it and learn a bit. I just picked up Cat's Cradle today, so I looked at these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature Does anyone else do this or just browse through Wikipedia looking up topics that interest them? Please post interesting pages of things you have learned from Wikipedia that you would like to share and discuss.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
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Grundy (Horse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundy_(horse)
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Thanks for sharing. I looked up something similar recently after hearing one of the characters on the office reciting a list and looking up what it was. I found out it was Triple Crown winners: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing_(United_States) Star Me Kitten has a new favorite as of 22:26 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
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Aug 15, 2020 22:38
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Woah, that is one crazy story. I wonder what was really wrong with him.
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Aug 15, 2020 22:56
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Cancelled military aircraft of the United Kingdom
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Aug 15, 2020 23:04
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Not a wikipedia page but from a wikipedia page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdDD9ViRZz4
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
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This is extremely morbid and cool. I can't believe I haven't happened upon this already. Some of these people... I cannot believe the way they died.
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Aug 16, 2020 02:26
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Similarly List of film and television accidents
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_welding
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Crucifixion#In Anime was so classic, and honestly its removal might be the very day the Internet lost its final innocence
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I don't see why it would get taken down tbh. As much as I like wikipedia I kinda hate the people on it
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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Aug 16, 2020 04:36
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars Always a fun read.
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Aug 16, 2020 05:07
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Knormal posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
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Some faves of mine... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immured_anchorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghori Jeffrey Dahmer has a new favorite as of 10:11 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Aug 16, 2020 09:01
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot “Who are those people we hate?” “The Cagot! We hate them!” “Why do we hate them?” “Because they’re Cagot!” “What makes them Cagot?” “The fact that we hate them!”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid This is an interesting topic worth reading about, but it always made me laugh a little that it's like: Supercritical fluids exist in: – the atmosphere of Jupiter – nuclear reactors – the production of decaf coffee One of those things is not like the others!
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I fell into a Wikipedia hole. I was reading about the Moulin Rouge and I discovered that the famous French farter Le Petomane performed there. Le Petomane is perhaps the most famous example of a flatulist. That page has a sentence which caught my eye: "In Japan, during the Edo period, flatulists were known as "heppiri otoko" (放屁男), lit. "farting men."[5] Also see He-gassen (屁合戦) for Edo-period art scrolls depicting "farting competitions"." And the He-Gassen page has this  image on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-gassen#/media/File:Hegassen_scroll_segment_33.jpg which absolutely made my day. Make sure you scroll along the whole of the big image, it's really quite something
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Star Me Kitten posted:Does anyone else do this or just browse through Wikipedia looking up topics that interest them? Please post interesting pages of things you have learned from Wikipedia that you would like to share and discuss. I like to pick a random monarch and then just keep clicking their parents to go as far back in time as I possibly can. Portrait styles, names, and country borders start getting weird. It's also fun to look at monarchs who were born in like 1800 so that there will be a painted portrait AND a photograph, and you can see how flattering the portrait was compared to their actual appearance. Anyway, yesterday I read the following Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gorski What can I say? I like quackery & the proper skepticism that ensues.
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quote:Charondas was a Greek lawgiver from Sicily.[4][5] According to Diodorus Siculus, he issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death.[4][5][6] One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside but with a knife still attached to his belt.[4][5] In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.[4][5][6] If only our lawmakers today were this principled.
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Sometimes the most interesting things are the articles Wikipedia won't keep. Take our pal Brimstone, who is a "wrestler" that once had a self-fellating article longer than the Undertaker's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Professional_wrestling/Archive_91#Brimstone_(wrestler) quote:Hey everyone, Merry Christmas. There was recently an edit war over at Brimstone (wrestler), and a subsequent sockpuppet investigation found that at least two of the major contributors to the article were the same person. One only has to look at the talk page to see how many years disruptive edits were able to go unchecked... at one point this article was apparently larger than The Undertaker and Sting (wrestler). Although the puffery has now been removed from the article, it would be nice if you folks could add this article to your watchlists to monitor for further abuse.LM2000 (talk) 19:57, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
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This is basically a master list of articles for this thread
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The unusual names article includes fictional names and names that people gave themselves -- what's the point? I was expected to see GG Allin there because he was born Jesus Christ Allin, not Metta World Peace who was born Ron Artest.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut lol @ the official warning sign they use 
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Knormal posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars It is always amazing to peruse discussion pages and see how often seemingly mundane pages can have tons of drama behind the scenes. I think it’s been mostly deleted by now, but my favorite was the guy who made it his hill to die on that Connecticut is not part of New England. Despite being repeatedly dunked on and proven wrong, he kept it up for YEARS.
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There was a several months long argument about whether a piece of million+ word brony fanfic should be included in the List Of Longest Novels article. It finally ended when the main guy arguing for it to be included put it up to a vote and then had a meltdown when he lost.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autocannibalism_incidents
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_One_Tower_(Louisiana)#:~:text=The%20Capital%20One%20Tower%20is,and%20Sons%20of%20Lake%20Charles. Is ballistic protection different from ballistic windows? Considering they made upgrades after Rita, I wondered if they did enough or if hurricane Laura's winds were just *that* strong.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel I'd really like to visit this place one day.
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letthereberock posted:It is always amazing to peruse discussion pages and see how often seemingly mundane pages can have tons of drama behind the scenes. they dont get deleted, just shunted to Talk:Whatever/Archive something, cf this one: Sweevo posted:There was a several months long argument about whether a piece of million+ word brony fanfic should be included in the List Of Longest Novels article. It finally ended when the main guy arguing for it to be included put it up to a vote and then had a meltdown when he lost. The fanfic was a My Little Pony / Fallout crossover (naturally called "Fallout: Equestria"), and iirc like twice as long as as the real novels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_longest_novels/Archive_2#To_achieve_concensus_for_fanfiction <-- note the posts by ChrisGualtieri Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 16:40 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:The fanfic was a My Little Pony / Fallout crossover (naturally called "Fallout: Equestria"), and iirc like twice as long as as the real novels.  A brony cretin posted:Forget the fan fiction for now and don't parade past actions as arguement against an editor with no basis on the current situation. It could be considered harassment; like the person which defaced my user page and demeaned me personally.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic This went on in New England for 150 years! A reaction to TB.
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There's a Wikipedia page that lists the most notorious vandals and trolls and it's easily the best page on the site. here's a sample:quote:Caidin-Johnson: Nonsense edits at television shows for young children, Looney Tunes articles, and topics related to Happy Tree Friends; also known for hoaxing at List of Crayola crayon colors. Obsessed with inflatable, bursting, popping, and bouncing objects.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Price_Riots The British theatre-goers didn't like a price hike.
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