May I share Wikipedia’s List of Lists of Lists
How about a list of lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes?
A more meta one - the Wikipedia list of Lamest edit wars is very entertaining. Entries include: is Hummus Israeli or an illegally occupied Palestinian dip, asking snakes what they think of the Israeli-Palenstine conflict, is 3 always an odd number?, Michael Palin vs Sarah Palin, and should we put a picture of a human bumhole in the article for anus and if so which one?
A bit morbid, but there’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths. Features stuff like:
Sergio Millán, 59, was alone in his apartment in Torreforta, Tarragona, Spain, when an explosion in a petrochemical plant 3 kilometres (2 mi) away launched a one-ton iron plate into the apartment above him, causing the ceiling to collapse, killing him.
or
Vladimir Likhonos, 25, a student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from Konotop, was killed when his chewing gum exploded. Likhonos had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to increase the gum’s sour taste. On his work table police found about 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies at home. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two, having accidentally coated his gum in the explosive powder before chewing it. The explosive was found to be four times stronger than TNT, and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos’s saliva, or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder.
second one is some loony tunes behaviour
How would they have deducted from his exploded skull that the cause was chewing gum dipped in explosive powder? That is some incredible forensic work. Or maybe they had cameras?
Well when you find a guy with an exploded face, it obviously warrants some further Investigation. I could imagine them looking for a bullet and not finding any, then investigating further. The info about him dipping his chewing gum in citric acid might have been given by friends, they also found the explosive, and from there it’s not a huge jump to the explanation they found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human reads like it was written by aliens studying us.
I also like things like:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_considered_unusual which for some reason doesn’t even list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est!_Est!!_Est!!!_di_Montefiascone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy is one of my favs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
Never seen Wikipedia this judgemental before
Can you blame them? Quack medical pseudoscience gets people killed.
“that’s what big pharma wants you to think”
—too many people I know
I too think it is justified. Simply not used to this tone on Wikipedia. Which is why I find it funny.
All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology contradicts homeopathy
Seemed factual, not judgemental…
Quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement will blow your intuitive mind.
the one on the airline of niki
I always find this one hilarious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
There are a number of fascinating stellar phenomenon on Wikipedia. The one that immediately comes to mind is V838. The short of it is that a star randomly decided to increase its luminosity significantly. The shell around the star isn’t ejected matter, what you’re seeing is a light echo. Because light moves at different speeds depending on the medium, light travelling through gas travels slower than light in a vacuum. You’re literally seeing the progression of light through space. Additionally, what you’re seeing is actually the backside of the illuminated space because the light travelling towards earth had less distance to travel and already arrived, while the light you’re seeing was reflected off the gas behind the star (or to put it another way, it’s like you’re looking at a 3d model of a sphere, but the normals were inverted).
IP Over Avian Carrier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IP_over_Avian_Carriers&oldid=1073581154 (old version before certain revisions were made to make it more sensible)
And the other April fools RFCs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments
Their finances and how God damn much money they blow every year
Probably the most important part of that page is that Wikipedia asks people for donations when they already have enough money to exist perpetually. All the money people donate simply goes to executives’ salaries.
WMF’s salary costs have risen from $7 million in 2010/11 to $88 million in 2021/22. Yet, only 2% of the raised money goes towards hosting costs, and the remuneration for the hard-working contributors to Wikipedia remains the same: zero.
I don’t know if it’s the absolute best, but the page for the band The Butthole Surfers is pretty excellent.
In 1986, they first met Lynch (a.k.a. Kathleen, a.k.a. Ta-Da the Shit Lady), who was then working at a strip club called Sex World in New York City.[75] Though never an official member, she became Butthole Surfers’ famous “naked dancer”, performing intermittently with them through 1989.[9] One show in Washington, D.C., with GWAR saw Kathleen take the stage to dance in nothing but gold body paint and antique wooden snow shoes. At another particularly wild concert in 1986, Haynes and Lynch, by now completely bald, reportedly engaged in sexual intercourse while on stage, as Leary used a screwdriver to vandalize the club’s speakers. This came after only five songs, during which time Haynes had started a small fire.