What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[sambeaven@toot.wales]

@babe it’s so cool!blew my mind so much when I first read it that I wrote a novel about it

[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