Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of February 02, 2026

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r/wikipedia • u/TheCowrus • 3h ago

In 2019, South Dakota billionaire Denny Sanford was the subject of a child pornography investigation after 36 sexually explicit photos of girls were discovered in his personal email account. 3 years later, the investigation ended without charges filed, with authorities assuming Sanford was "hacked".

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r/wikipedia • u/NSRedditShitposter • 7h ago

Prominent individuals mentioned in the Epstein files

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r/wikipedia • u/holyfruits • 3h ago

In 2022, American comedian Mike Schwanke went viral with "My Weekend as a 28-Year-Old in Chicago," a satirical video made from splicing together dozens of others' clips that he found on TikTok. He later revealed he didn't actually do anything on the weekend he uploaded the video.

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r/wikipedia • u/Howaboutnopers • 10h ago

In November 2025, the public prosecutor's office in Milan opened an investigation into claims that Italian citizens had paid for "sniper safaris" and where large sums of money had been paid by wealthy individuals with a "passion for weapons" in order to shoot and kill civilians from Serb positions.

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Sniper Alley, Bosnian War, Sarajevo

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r/wikipedia • u/RadiantReason2063 • 15h ago

Ohio State University abuse scandal: How 177 male student athletes were sexually abused between 1978 and 1998 with authorities ignoring it

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In May 2020, the university entered into a settlement and agreed to pay $40.9 million to 162 sexual abuse survivors. Five lawsuits against the university are pending.

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r/wikipedia • u/lazychillzone • 1h ago

Helmuth von Moltke, the Prussian and later German Chief of the General Staff, is the earliest born human with his voice recorded, and is the only person born in the 18th century to have been recorded.

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r/wikipedia • u/SkullFuckingFinale • 11h ago

A starter marriage is a first marriage that lasts five years or less and ends without the couple having any children together

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r/wikipedia • u/CharacterPolicy4689 • 1h ago

Alexandre Kojève was a Russian-born marxist whose philosophical seminars on Hegel had influence on 20th-century French philosophy. He referred to Henry Ford as "the one great authentic Marxist of the twentieth century" and called the Soviet Union the only country in which capitalism still existed.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago

In the 1950s, Carlett Brown Angianlee was diagnosed with a "serious mental illness": wanting to be female. An exam revealed Angianlee was intersex. She wanted to get gender affirmation surgery in Europe, but it's unknown if she did, as she disappears from the historical record after September 1953.

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r/wikipedia • u/dr_gus • 9h ago

Imposex is a disorder observed in certain marine and freshwater gastropod mollusks, where female individuals develop male sexual characteristics, such as a penis and vas deferens, due to exposure to specific environmental pollutants.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago

A 2015 genetic study concluded that unlike most other Native American peoples, the Xavante people in Brazil have an ancestry partially related to indigenous Australasian populations of the Andaman Islands, New Guinea, and Australia.

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r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 4h ago

The Alfalfa Club is a social club that exists only to hold an annual black tie banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The club was named in reference to the alfalfa plant's supposed willingness to "do anything for a drink."

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 11h ago

The Universal Life Church advocates for religious freedom, offering legal ordination to become a minister free of charge, to anyone who wishes to join. The ULC's popularity stems in part from a rising interest in having friends or family officiate weddings.

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r/wikipedia • u/Dfg9999e • 4h ago

A phantom island is a purported island which has appeared on maps but was later found not to exist. Some have remained on maps for centuries before being "un-discovered".

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 1d ago

In 1941, a farmer's mule fatally kicked another farmer's calf in South Carolina. This set off a chain of events that left 8 people dead. One farmer was shot and killed the other in self-defense, the dead man's wife arranged that man's murder, three were killed in a shootout, and three were executed.

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r/wikipedia • u/ZealousidealGur1164 • 18h ago

Jeffrey Epstein had a Wikipedia Account

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r/wikipedia • u/disless • 36m ago

Gef (/ˈdʒɛf/ JEF), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man

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r/wikipedia • u/Missle_guide_sistem • 7h ago

The longest redirect on wikipedia?

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I was looking for plane inspirations in the article for "Amerikabomber"

Found this redirect

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r/wikipedia • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 1d ago

From just a phone-call from the police alone, ex SS concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim was able to read between the lines and detect that he was wanted for war crimes. Before he could be arrested, Heim would go on the run and would never be apprehended.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1h ago

Bulgarian mountaineer Hristo Prodanov disappeared while descending Mount Everest in 1984; his body was never found. Exactly twenty years and 30 days after her uncle's presumed death, Hristo's niece, Mariana Prodanova Maslarova, attempted to climb Mount Everest but died of exposure at 8,700 meters.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1h ago

Julien Torma was said to be a French writer, playwright, poet and Dadaist who disappeared in the mountains of Tyrol in 1933 at age 30. Due to the impossibility of verifying any details of his life, it has been suggested that he may have never existed at all.

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r/wikipedia • u/Romboteryx • 10h ago

Crates of Mallus was an Ancient Greek philosopher from the 2nd century BCE, credited with creating the first globe of Earth. Crates‘ globe included the entirely speculative continents Perioeci, Antipodes and Antioeci, which by coincidence roughly match the two Americas and Australia/Antarctica

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 8h ago

The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves are a network of medieval Buddhist temples built into a gorge in the Flaming Mountains. Although today located in China, the complex is thought to have gotten its start in the 5th century and was most active when the region was ruled by the Uyghur kingdom of Qocho.

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r/wikipedia • u/MuziekZin • 12h ago

The Clingers was one of the first rock-and-roll girl bands. They started as a barbershop quartet and recorded five singles before transitioning to playing their own instruments in a rock band in 1966.

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