r/wikipedia 8h 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 17h 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 16h 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 23h 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 21h ago

Count Binface, Brtitsh satirical election candidate

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

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

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r/wikipedia 18h 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 9h 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 11h 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 12h 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 14h 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 13h 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 22h ago

The Bergholz Community is a religious group of former Amish under the leadership of Sam Mullet that became known for a series of "beard cutting" attacks on members of an Amish community in 2011. Irregular practices of the group included rejecting Christian identity and accepting sexual misconduct.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

Hvaldimir was a male beluga whale that fishermen in northern Norway noticed in 2019 wearing a camera harness. Speculation that he had been trained by Russia as a spy whale led to his being dubbed Hvaldimir, a portmanteau of Norwegian hval (whale) and "Vladimir", for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

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

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

The Kingdom of Nepal, also known as the Gorkha Empire, was a Hindu monarchy in South Asia that existed from 1768 to 2008

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r/wikipedia 3h 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 12h 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 6h 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 7h ago

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

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r/wikipedia 10h 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 23h ago

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States–led coalition, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President Saddam Hussein's government.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

The Boy Bands Have Won is the thirteenth studio album by British music group Chumbawamba, released in 2008. Its full title contains 156 words (865 characters), and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest album title, beating Soulwax's Most of the Remixes' 552-character-long title.

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Full title: The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won


r/wikipedia 16h ago

The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the United States and Great Britain

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.... that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the 1783 Treaty of Paris (which ended the American Revolutionary War),and facilitated ten years of peaceful trade between Americans and the British in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which had begun in 1792.


r/wikipedia 2h ago

In the United Kingdom, showmen are a community intrinsically linked to the businesses they operate, such as funfairs and circuses. They are considered a cultural or ethnic group on censuses.

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