What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis is a good one
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@babe This one, for the photo. I believe it was entirely deliberate. Dunno how much of a rabbit hole it'll lead to, but it's glorious and everyone should see it.
@woe2you Should have seen that coming
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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 the list of common misconceptions
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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 Too many. I wear out the random article button on wikireader somedays.
Great Thread.
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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 first cat to author and co author a physics paper. Largely because someone couldn’t be bothered to change “we” to “I”, and it kind of spiralled from there.
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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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@sambeaven Oooh I read about this a while ago (though I can't recall why)
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe If you love reading about a weird extinct animal, here's Paraceratherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraceratherium
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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 slightly related to the one posted by @lukeharby
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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
My fave is my first Navy ship, USS Piedmont -
P pelle@veganism.social shared this topic
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe There are just *so* many stories in here and you can even see the origins of later myths, legends and tales, like a lot of Arthurian stories.
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@schroedingerspossum @babe I’m sorry, but the finger guns are certainly not optional
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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 there used to be a wikipedia entry about frogs written in middle english which i thought was pretty funny ; i don't think it's available anymore since i wasn't able to find it again ; but there is a narration of it on YouTube : https://youtu.be/Giqsjvur5Io?t=33
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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 Lāhainā Noon, the day without shadows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon#/media/File:Lahaina_Noon.jpg
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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 the page about bats is a corker (they evolved twice independently!!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat -
What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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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
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe Folk song lists! Knock yourself out:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Child_Ballads
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number -
What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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You might enjoy D’arcy Carden’s podcast Wikihole. It’s good fun.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-wikihole-with-darcy-carden-157305042/
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@quixoticgeek @babe you beat me to it. Clearly the best pun out there
@phil_browne @babe it's one of my top three favourite Wikipedia edits.