What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[mym@toot.cat]

@babe not ranking things at the moment but had a good dive tonight from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivering_Sands_Army_Fort and into the history of UK pirate radio, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine,_%26c.,_Broadcasting_(Offences)_Act_1967

[greatjoe@nyan.network]

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

[mack505@feistycricket.org]

@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

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

Sorry I haven't replied to a lot of people in this but thank you so much for sharing everything you have. These sure are some rabbit holes

And holy shit at the dude who survived a proton beam from a collider going through his head?!?! 'the fuck

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@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

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

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

[loyhena@eldritch.cafe]

@babe

Somehow when I scroll wikipedia, I always, always come back to this one :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

The knowledge the universe is only made of 4 different forces makes my mind giggle. I find the concepts to be a the very limit of what my brain can understand and it almost looks like real magic to me.

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

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

[bovaz@misskey.social]

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers
"The list does not contain all numbers in existence as most of the number sets are infinite."

[middleclasstool@phire.place]

@babe This is not a wiki rabbit hole, but I give it full marks just for giving me a new exclamation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_H._Christ

[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