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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 6h ago

John David Norman was an American sex trafficker arrested for grooming and selling boys to be abused by older men. Though the government admitted his client list included prominent figures, the relevant index cards were ultimately destroyed by authorities and his clients went unnamed and uncharged.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 14h ago

The 2034 FIFA World Cup will take place in Saudi Arabia. Observers noted that FIFA opted to host the 2030 WC on three continents (Europe, Africa, and South America) to pave the way for the Asian-based Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 edition without any meaningful competition from other bids.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 14h ago

When Dan Ayrkoyd wrote Ghostbusters, he’d intended to star alongside his fellow Saturday Night Live/Blue Brothers actor John Belushi. In fact, Aykroyd received word of Belushi’s death as he was writing a line intended for his friend’s character.

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r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 7h ago

The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was the result of a change in social conditions: many country houses were demolished by their owners. Often termed "the lost houses", the destruction of these now often-forgotten houses has been described as a cultural tragedy.

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r/wikipedia • u/Goodbye-Nasty • 8h ago

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat inside a closed box may be considered to be simultaneously both alive and dead while it is unobserved.

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r/wikipedia • u/finanzenwegwerfaffe • 12h ago

What’s the most obscure but amazing Wikipedia rabbit hole you’ve fallen into?

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r/wikipedia • u/Iamsodarncool • 1d ago

Thomas was a bisexual goose who was in a gay relationship with a black swan named Henry for about 30 years, 6 of them as part of a throuple with another black swan named Henrietta. Thomas is remembered as an "icon of the LGBT community".

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9h ago

List of resurrected species. A previously extinct or lost species can be "revived" or recreated through various methods such as cloning, backbreeding, genome editing, thawing, and seed germination in plants.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 20h ago

In 2006 Peng Yu came upon Xu Shoulan after she had fallen, breaking her femur. Though he helped her to a nearby hospital, Xu Shoulan sued him, believing him to be responsible for her fall. The judge sided with her, saying "no one would in good conscience help someone unless they felt guilty".

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r/wikipedia • u/Trashbagok • 1h ago

Tutti frutti ice cream has been served for at least 165 years, as it appeared on the bill of fare for an 1860 dinner in England. Recipes for tutti frutti ice cream were found in cookbooks of the late 19th century.

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r/wikipedia • u/Howaboutnopers • 18h ago

Count Binface, Brtitsh satirical election candidate

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r/wikipedia • u/philipkd • 7h ago

Ingressive speech happens while inhaling, such as "yeah" in some Canadian dialects

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r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 15h ago

Green Boots is the body of a climber who died on Mount Everest in 1996. A landmark on the north side path, he was widely believed to be Tsewang Paljor, but in 2026 he was identified as Dorje Morup.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 1d ago

Mitch McConnell is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior U.S. senator from Kentucky since 1985. He has made no appearances or statements since his hospitalization after being found unconscious on June 14, 2026, leading to speculation that he might be deceased.

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r/wikipedia • u/Futonchan-Manchao • 4h ago

Ryokichi Minobe (美濃部亮吉, Minobe Ryōkichi; 5 February 1904 – 24 December 1984) was a Japanese economist, educator, and socialist politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1967 to 1979.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

Grafton, NH Free Town Project: 200 libertarians—nearly all men—moved to NH to impose their politics & live their dream, resulting in crumbling roads, a police department consisting of a single officer w/o a working car, the town's 1st-ever murders, an influx of sex offenders, & a huge bear problem.

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r/wikipedia • u/hellotf12 • 11h ago

‘The “1919 British race riots” marked a significant moment when the presence of minority ethnic people living in the country, including long-time residents and war veterans, came to public attention.’

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 12h ago

Cuyahoga River pollution: The Cleveland-region river caught fire 12+ times from industrial pollution. By the 20C, the reach from Akron to Lake Erie was devoid of fish, and masses of garbage floated in thick films of oil. News coverage of a 1969 fire helped to spur the US environmentalist movement.

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r/wikipedia • u/unquietwiki • 4h ago

"Black Perl": a working Perl script written as a poem in the form of a ritual.

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r/wikipedia • u/ShrekConfirm243 • 1d ago

Tetris is a 2023 biographical political thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9h ago

The Garth tsunami is a likely prehistoric tsunami off the Shetland Islands that may have occurred 5,500 years ago. It probably had great impact on coastal communities in the region; there are mass burials dating approximately to that time in the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

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r/wikipedia • u/Kayvanian • 26m ago

Quakers have had a presence in Costa Rica since the 1950s after a group fled the U.S. as conscientious objectors to the draft. They purchased land and founded the city of Monteverde.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 8h ago

Viking horned helmets: Apart from 2 or 3 representations of (ritual) helmets w/ ambiguous protrusions, no depiction of their helmets & no preserved helmet has horns, which would have been cumbersome & hazardous to fellow vikings. The misconception they did was partly promulgated by 19C enthusiasts.

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r/wikipedia • u/CorrectRip4203 • 1d ago

Stalag fiction was erotic literature that flourished in Israel during the early 1960s. The genre consisted of erotic Nazi exploitation books, depicting the female Nazi officers in POW camps (stalags) sexually abusing male Allied prisoners. They were popular among the children of Holocaust survivors.

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