What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

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

[internetsdairy@mastodon.art]

@Scmbradley @babe *whip crack*

[solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk]

@babe and he still finished his PhD which makes me think I really ought to just suck it up and finish writing mine!

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@babe Oh, wow. What a loon! That's awesome.

[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.

[rooftopjaxx@kolektiva.social]

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

[mlupica@c.im]

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