What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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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!
