What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?
What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?
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Most recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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Hey me too!
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The new South Park is killing it
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I'd rather share my porn history
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OK. Let's have it then. I'm always looking for recommendations.
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Both my porn and my Wikipedia history include Monosodium Glutamate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
I was helping a friend with music production, you see
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Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can't wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??
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This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic
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I fucking love beavers!!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1
I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.
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Because yesterday was the fifth of November, I looked up Wikipedia pages about the story and person(s) that inspired the movie, V for Vendetta
The Wiki article about the Gunpowder Plot in particular was most interesting.
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The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)
It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.
Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.
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The Donner Party.
It's inexplicably like my "Roman Empire" for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.
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That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it's public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It's ironic that they were initially trying to take a short cut and save time, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up, cost them lots of time and ended in disaster.
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I'll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I'm sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!
My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.
Lemme tell you if you've never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.
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The conditions that created it (well, the weather) can be recreated in the Oregon Trail 2 video game!
Although it's difficult. You have to really screw around to be as slow, otherwise you reach the pass before the storm hits.
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I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names
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The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.
He also led the "Kościuszko Uprising" against the Russian occupation of Poland.
My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson's slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.
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From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.
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I am reading The Conquest of New Spain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
... because a Danish politician is talking about "remigrating" 50.000-100.000 people.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_d%27Ampezzo
Because I became curious about why the car was named that.
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Some random steroid, because a drug name came up in a video I was watching and I had never heard of it before. I thought it was going to be some sort of party drug. Turns out it's for bodybuilders who don't want the water retention of the normal ones.
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Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.
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This was yesterday. High speed rail in Japan/China and in Belgium/Netherlands
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Belgium
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_Netherlands
I was watching an RMTransit video last night, and just realized how almost comical it is that Belgium and the Netherlands (which together is not much bigger than the Tokyo or Shanghai metropolitan areas) have multiple high-speed rail lines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter
I like helicopters -
I don't remember which term it was, but I often use wikipedia to clarify translations. Complex terms are usually not found in dictionaries (online or paper). So i can look for the term in a localized wikipedia, and then switch to the English version of that article.
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This legendary son of a legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Boozer
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I'm using an old RC helicopter radio I bought eons ago to control a raspberry pi, so I'm reverse engineering the signal on the receiver side (which was surprisingly easy), and I got curious about the company in general.
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Aron Flam, Swedish comedian. Igorrr, a French avant garde metal band.
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Mug Root Beer. I was trying to find out if the "Mugrootbeeroffcial" socials was actually them. Their youtube videos are nuts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ycu%C3%A1_Bola%C3%B1os_supermarket_fire
A pretty fucked up incident where hundreds of people were murdered because owners were worried about theft during a fire.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fighter_aircraft
I've been looking at modern fighter jets for some inspiration in my sci-fi world I'm making, and I was kinda shocked to learn the US is the odd one out for having a relatively small gatling gun with a huge rate of fire and 100s of round of ammo. Turns out most modern jets use much slower firing, higher caliber autocannons and only have like 100-200 rounds on board. Reminds me of how the US almost exclusively used a bunch of .50s on their fighter planes during WWII while the rest of the world started mounting larger cannons on their planes
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Known the word since I was a child. Could not name one if you pointed to it.
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Yeísmo -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo
The double L in many Spanish dialects turning into a Y sound.
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I had no idea there was a name for it. Cool!
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Porn actress Kagney Linn Karter. I recently found out she took her own life last year which was quite sad.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide
One of the many examples how imperialism and greed can turn things into atrocious shit.
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Julian dates
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9 times out of 10 I'm looking up an entertainer, usually their filmography or discography. I find Wikipedia much more pleasant than imdb.
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A friend of mine posted a picture of a Halloween decoration of a skeleton man with a skeleton dog jumping up on him. It reminded me of a photo I've seen of the same but with real skeletons and it brought me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
Didn't realize he was a local Washingtonian who studied Bigfoot.
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According to my browser history:
- Music of Cowboy Bebop
- Folk high school
- The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
- Build Canada Homes
- Hominidae
- A Coney Island of the Mind
- American Chestnut
- Les Nessman
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I like looking at tv episode guides and actor filmographies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesaffelstein I heard a song by an artist I've never heard of before
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I double checked myself on some Chauchat machinegun facts, and then kind of went into a rabbit hole of inter-war French armament.
Such variety!
Harlem shake? Disgusting and degenerate
I forgot what it was