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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

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  • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

    What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

    I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

    mlupica@c.imM This user is from outside of this forum
    mlupica@c.imM This user is from outside of this forum
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    @babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

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    • middleclasstool@phire.placeM middleclasstool@phire.place

      @babe This is not a wiki rabbit hole, but I give it full marks just for giving me a new exclamation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_H._Christ

      lproven@social.vivaldi.netL This user is from outside of this forum
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      @middleclasstool @babe It doesn't say, but one is forced to conclude that she married Jesus H and took his middle name as well.

      If not...

      She must have had fun at school.

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      • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

        Sorry I haven't replied to a lot of people in this but thank you so much for sharing everything you have. These sure are some rabbit holes

        And holy shit at the dude who survived a proton beam from a collider going through his head?!?! 'the fuck

        botally54@mastodon.socialB This user is from outside of this forum
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        @babe Wally, how many times have I told you, DONT STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE HADRON WHILE ITS RUNNING!

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        • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

          What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

          I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

          highlandlawyer@mastodon.socialH This user is from outside of this forum
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          @babe
          For rabbit holes, try https://tvtropes.org/ which of course has an entry on The Other Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes)

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          • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

            What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

            I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

            stavvers@masto.aiS This user is from outside of this forum
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            @babe this one is a personal favourite because every blue link will send you spiralling down another blue link rabbithole to find yourself learning about the obvious, like how planes (should) work to entirely fascinating tangentially related stuff like tourism in Antarctica or perceptive illusions

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            • stavvers@masto.aiS stavvers@masto.ai

              @babe this one is a personal favourite because every blue link will send you spiralling down another blue link rabbithole to find yourself learning about the obvious, like how planes (should) work to entirely fascinating tangentially related stuff like tourism in Antarctica or perceptive illusions

              babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB This user is from outside of this forum
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              @stavvers You can just keep going and going and going

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              • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

                @stavvers You can just keep going and going and going

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                @babe lmao just realised I forgot the fucking link, cw a very beautifully collated list of aviation accidents I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_aircraft_accidents_and_incidents

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                • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

                  What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

                  I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

                  nysloth@masto.nycN This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @babe Going to have to go with “Humanity Dick” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Martin_(Irish_politician)?wprov=sfti1

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                  • nicovel0@mastodon.socialN nicovel0@mastodon.social

                    @babe there’s also the guy who survived an iron bar going through his head https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
                    But my favourite is the Canadian who was shot in the stomach and didn’t heal properly, allowing for some of the earliest experiments on human digestion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_St._Martin

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                    @Nicovel0 @babe That happened at the steelworks in Sheerness some time in the 1990s, except that rod was at a temperature somewhere between 500 and 700 Celsius and the guy pulled it out with his bare hands.

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                    • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

                      What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

                      I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

                      ephesossh@mastodon.onlineE This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #128

                      @babe this used to have a funnier title, "list of fictional worms"... Curse you, style standards!
                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_depictions_of_worms

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                      • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

                        What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

                        I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

                        madcollector@retro.pizzaM This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @babe Leo Mahor, the Canadian Rambo
                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major

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                        • mack505@feistycricket.orgM mack505@feistycricket.org

                          @babe He’s a local celebrity! I drive by his house weekly.

                          He has an industrial park named for him now. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newburyport,_Massachusetts&wprov=rarw1

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                          @mack505 ... there's so many new englanders on fediverse...

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                          • babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

                            What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

                            I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down

                            akki@toot.lgbtA This user is from outside of this forum
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                            @babe I just hit the Random button wikipedia for laughs sometimes. Found out weird ye ancient term for STI clinic/hospital which even had folk songs mentioning it
                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Lock_Hospital

                            Also I keep these sorts of things in a commonplace book - writing things out longhand is hard but it sticks the information in my brain better
                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book (it's like a personal encylopedia)

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                            • andrybak@mastodon.socialA andrybak@mastodon.social

                              @schroedingerspossum @babe fun fact: the couple in the photo got married https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/wikipedia-high-five-too-slow-photos-mystery-couple-solved

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                              @andrybak @schroedingerspossum @babe “'Victim misses' had become 'victim Mrs.'” is top tier writing!

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                              • akki@toot.lgbtA akki@toot.lgbt

                                @babe I just hit the Random button wikipedia for laughs sometimes. Found out weird ye ancient term for STI clinic/hospital which even had folk songs mentioning it
                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Lock_Hospital

                                Also I keep these sorts of things in a commonplace book - writing things out longhand is hard but it sticks the information in my brain better
                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book (it's like a personal encylopedia)

                                akki@toot.lgbtA This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @babe Adelle Lutz who was at the dinner party in Beetlejuice is actually a wildly fascinating artist/designer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelle_Lutz

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                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day

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                                (sorry i'm just going through my commonplace book now finding the interesting stuff)

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                                • akki@toot.lgbtA akki@toot.lgbt

                                  @babe Adelle Lutz who was at the dinner party in Beetlejuice is actually a wildly fascinating artist/designer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelle_Lutz

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                                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day

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                                  (sorry i'm just going through my commonplace book now finding the interesting stuff)

                                  babe@glitterkitten.co.ukB This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  @Akki Thunderstorm asthma is wild. I never would have imagined something like that triggering widespread health events!

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