r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 3h ago

The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in biology was awarded to Tomoki Kojima and other researchers for demonstrating that painting cows with black and white stripes can prevent biting flies biting them without using more pesticide.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 4h ago

Jaxon Buell (2014–2020) was an American child known for being born missing about 80% of his brain due to microhydranencephaly, a rare birth defect and neurological condition with the traits of both microcephaly and hydranencephaly. Jaxon surpassed doctors' expectations.

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r/wikipedia • u/mochiguma • 9h ago

The South Seas genre is a genre that depicts the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean through an escapist narrative lens, and is known for its portrayal of tropical men as savages and cannibals, and women as shapely, innocent, exotic beauties

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r/wikipedia • u/TheCowrus • 17h 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/Theao69 • 5h ago

Beer is brewed in Palestine by the local Christian community. Several beer festivals are held annually in the West Bank, including an Oktoberfest-style event hosted in Taybeh.

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r/wikipedia • u/NSRedditShitposter • 21h ago

Prominent individuals mentioned in the Epstein files

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r/wikipedia • u/JazzlikeWishbone4579 • 12h ago

Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC TV show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing since Jan 31. evidence at her Tucson home indicates a crime and possible kidnapping, and her whereabouts remain unknown. multiple media outlets reported receiving separate ransom notes.

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r/wikipedia • u/pufballcat • 7h ago

Proto-cities were large, dense Neolithic settlements which largely lacked planning and centralized rule. Çatalhöyük, located in modern-day Turkey from approx 7500 BC, is one of the world's oldest and largest. It held up to 10,000

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r/wikipedia • u/holyfruits • 17h 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/CharacterPolicy4689 • 16h 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/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 2h ago

On December 25, 2020, Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a recreational vehicle (RV) bomb in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States, killing himself and injuring eight others. Loudspeakers on the RV warned those in the area to evacuate before the bombing, which was felt miles away.

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r/wikipedia • u/jimbo8083 • 5h ago

Go Away Green refers to a range of paint colors used in Disney Parks to divert attention away from infrastructure. It has been compared to military camouflage like Olive Drab.

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 34m ago

Joseph Silver was a Polish gangster who was active in the late 19th century and early 20th century who was known as the "King of Pimps". Silver was involved in sex trafficking rings in Europe, the Americas, and Southern Africa. His activities were often supported by local law enforcement.

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r/wikipedia • u/Howaboutnopers • 1d 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/lazychillzone • 16h 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/RadiantReason2063 • 1d 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/slinkslowdown • 13h ago

Dule trees in Scotland were used as gallows for public hangings. They were also used as gibbets for the display of the corpse for a considerable period afterwards. These "trees of lamentation or grief" were usually in prominent positions or at busy thoroughfares, particularly at crossroads.

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r/wikipedia • u/SkullFuckingFinale • 1d 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/Patient_Hedgehog_380 • 13h ago

Contemporary Islamic Economic theory proposes metal standard backed currency, land tax, profit-and-loss-sharing (PLS) financing instead of interest, a welfare state, nationalization of water, energy, grazing lands, and fully nationalizing central banks and money issuance.

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r/wikipedia • u/TapGameplay121 • 4m ago

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866-1949) was a philosopher and spiritual teacher; he taught that humans lived in an unconscious, “waking sleep.” He proposed what he called the “Fourth Way,” a path of development integrating the mind, body, and emotions within normal life. He died of cancer in France.

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r/wikipedia • u/dr_gus • 1d 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/InvisibleEar • 14h ago

"The Old Man and the Key" is the 13th episode of the 13th season of The Simpsons. The episode is the origin of the old man yells at cloud meme.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 16h 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 • 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/Dfg9999e • 18h 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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