What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[ida@is.nota.live]

@solderandchaos @babe also my favorite! it was split up into a list of lists sometime last year (iirc), but they're all worth reading through!

[luigirenna@infosec.exchange]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

[dolfsquare@tooting.intensifi.es]

@babe I love the list of lists of common misconceptions about <X subject>! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

[luigirenna@infosec.exchange]

@babe and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_organ

[oisin@mastodon.ie]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@babe ok I don't have any articles to add to your list but reading one of the ones someone else contributed taught me that there are sea cucumbers that breathe through bladders in their ass, and furthermore these organs sometimes become inhabited by worms, fish or crabs, not as parasites but simply residents, who then emerge daily via the cucumber's anus

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@http_error_418 @babe So they really understand and embrace the face that they live in a shithole.

[mlupica@c.im]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[lproven@social.vivaldi.net]

@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.

[botally54@mastodon.social]

@babe Wally, how many times have I told you, DONT STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE HADRON WHILE ITS RUNNING!

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@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)

[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.uk]

@stavvers You can just keep going and going and going

[stavvers@masto.ai]

@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

[nysloth@masto.nyc]

@babe Going to have to go with “Humanity Dick” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Martin_(Irish_politician)?wprov=sfti1

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@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.

[ephesossh@mastodon.online]

@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

[madcollector@retro.pizza]

@babe Leo Mahor, the Canadian Rambo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major

[akki@toot.lgbt]

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

[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)