What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@billyjoebowers I see posts on the TL sometimes which are like 'babe...' and have to check they don't mean me
I often think it's the beginning of a joke, like "babe you haven't finished your..." and I sometimes stop and wonder why I don't get it.
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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
@babe ....what the heck did I just read?
I kept it together until "Informer of Deer".
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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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@babe ....what the heck did I just read?
I kept it together until "Informer of Deer".
@theplaguedoc Fucking molasses ladles
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe
I just read an article bookmarked weeks ago about the CIA’s ‘Stargate Project’ involving researching the efficacy of ‘Remote Viewing’ as an Intelligence Gathering Tool.The end result of the research, predictably, found that psychic abilities are horseshit (they didn’t use that term, the cowards). I was hoping to get more details about experiments and success rates, but it is actually mostly about the people involved, some of them former Scientologists.
Weird old gov’t programmes, eh?
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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"a contemporary press account clearly shows that the community was already called "Booger Hole" at the time of the murders."
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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 high school’s Wikipedia page has a long long list of notable alumni who went on to be scientists, scholars, politicians, sportspeople, but at the end is “Peter Scott - burglar” and his Wikipedia page is amazing
“Scott described himself as having been "sent by God to take back some of the wealth that the outrageously rich had taken from the rest of us"”
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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 (dark) I love looking at proto-Indo-European and after spending time in that rabbit hole, realizing that the entirety of human history is just Indo-European colonization of the entire planet.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe "Picadilly weepers"
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe i read about this guy some time ago and I found the story incredible
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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
Regarding Wiki, I'll guess you might have already heard of the 'Philosophy' game?
For those not in the know, you start from any random Wikipaedia page, and click on the first link in the body of the article which is not a pronunciation guide, tab, or clarification. On the new page, do the same. Repeat. The game is to see how many clicks it takes to get to the main page for "Philosophy".
It's often a shorter path than you might expect!
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe I love them all equally. That being said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe information about proto Indo-European blows my mind.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema
rocket scientist Jack Parsons did a Thelemic ritual with L. Ron Hubbard, who later founded Scientology
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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every page of Wikipedia is a rabbit hole.
every day a new rabbit hole.
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe Wikipedia article on Brass, the section on Lead Content:
"In laboratory tests, state researchers found the average brass key, new or old, exceeded the California Proposition 65 limits by an average factor of 19, assuming handling twice a day."
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@babe Chlorine trifluoride. Mostly because of the "safety precautions".
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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/
@JoBlakely @babe oh lol that is so on point given her role in The Good Place
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What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?
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@babe i thought you'd never ask. its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_(concept)
