What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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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
@stavvers You can just keep going and going and going
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@stavvers You can just keep going and going and going
@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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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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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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@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 -
What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe this used to have a funnier title, "list of fictional worms"... Curse you, style standards!
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@babe Leo Mahor, the Canadian Rambo
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@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
@mack505 ... there's so many new englanders on fediverse...
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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 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_HospitalAlso 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
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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
@andrybak @schroedingerspossum @babe “'Victim misses' had become 'victim Mrs.'” is top tier writing!
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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_HospitalAlso 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)@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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day
(sorry i'm just going through my commonplace book now finding the interesting stuff)
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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day
(sorry i'm just going through my commonplace book now finding the interesting stuff)
@Akki Thunderstorm asthma is wild. I never would have imagined something like that triggering widespread health events!
