Wikipedia

3163 readers
173 users here now

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Recommended:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
1
2
3
4
5
 
 

https://www.instagram.com/lotipencil/ if you want to see pictures of the actual pencil. Why it isn't in the article I don't know, but I suppose if you live out that way, do your part and contribute to Wikipedia. :)

6
 
 

Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass.

7
8
9
10
11
 
 

Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government, and use them to justify a war against Cuba.

12
 
 

Not affiliated with juggalos, but maybe it could be

13
 
 

Shoutout to the YouTube channels for the 11foot8 bridge and the Needles Underpass!

14
 
 

For scale, the other 25 contentious topics include gender and sexuality, the Northern Ireland conflict, Kurdistan, Yasuke, contemporary US politics, and pseudoscience.

15
 
 

A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen. However, salt has had a variety of meanings in religions around the world.

16
17
28
List of extinct dog breeds (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Tyoda@lemm.ee to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
 
 

List of puppers you can't pet :(

18
19
20
21
22
 
 

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself.

23
24
 
 

This is not a fun read

Tap for spoilerIssei Sagawa (佐川 一政, Sagawa Issei; 26 April 1949 – 24 November 2022)[1] also known as Pang or the Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese lust murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981.

25
 
 

This is kind of incoherent @wikipedia - it's written from an American point of view and doesn't make clear at all what Britain's and France's war was in the first place - it needs an introduction that would précis the whole thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-French/War/(1778%E2%80%931783)

view more: next ›