What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@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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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe My favorite is already listed by another (The list of unusuald deaths), so ill mention my runner up "list of obsolete occupations". There are some startling ones that wouldn't immediately occur, because we're so far removed from the historical/cultural context.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down
@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godolphin_Arabian
I'm just amazed that people decided that 3 relatively random horses (their histories aren't that clear) were the most Horse horses and that any and all horses not related to them are somehow less Horse. Also, seemingly there was an ~80 year span during which other very Horse horses could be defined but that was the limit. That's a link to the article that started it all for me.I am not a horse person, so this might be obvious to others but it seems absurd to me.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down
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@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godolphin_Arabian
I'm just amazed that people decided that 3 relatively random horses (their histories aren't that clear) were the most Horse horses and that any and all horses not related to them are somehow less Horse. Also, seemingly there was an ~80 year span during which other very Horse horses could be defined but that was the limit. That's a link to the article that started it all for me.I am not a horse person, so this might be obvious to others but it seems absurd to me.
@humanfish @babe don't forget:
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe I keep a list of some of my favorite pages on my site: https://benji.dog/wikipedia but one that I usually share as a fun fact is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe a weird case of a spanish page not having even a english analogous. This is a list of all the placed mentioned in all of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's LOEG
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe Especially if you were raised Christian:
the Synoptic Problem has flummoxed philosophers/Christians for centuries.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down
@babe @catsalad one of my favorites is the page for the fish species, black neon tetras. Specifically the sub section documenting how at one point one of them committed credit card fraud with a Nintendo Switch.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe Bell's Theorem. Quantum inequality. Planck space. Spooky Attraction at a Distance.
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@babe slightly related to the one posted by @lukeharby
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe the list of common misconceptions
@solderandchaos @babe that's the one I usually recommend as well!
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@sambeaven Oooh I read about this a while ago (though I can't recall why)
@babe it’s so cool!blew my mind so much when I first read it that I wrote a novel about it
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe not ranking things at the moment but had a good dive tonight from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivering_Sands_Army_Fort and into the history of UK pirate radio, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine,_%26c.,_Broadcasting_(Offences)_Act_1967
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
I'm looking for some rabbit holes to go scuttling down
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One that I got reminded of in my bookmarks which inspired me to ask: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
@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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One that I got reminded of in my bookmarks which inspired me to ask: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
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
