Interesting and unusual Wikipedia articles

[cainxinth]

I think this one fits the category:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws

[ParentalAdvisory]

I wonder if Terri's Law should be in there (Schiavo)

[Machine Elf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut

[Machine Elf]

One of my favorites, endlessly fascinating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

[Machine Elf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosi...sion_generator

[Tapioca Dextrin]

The Lloyd's Bank, er, poo

[ultrafilter]

Wikipedia's list of unusual articles.

[lisacurl]

Originally Posted by Tapioca Dextrin

The Lloyd's Bank, er, poo

"This is the most exciting piece of excrement I've ever seen. In its own way, it's as valuable as the Crown Jewels."

That made my day.

[Drain Bead]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...own_inventions

And the more generic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

[Eva Luna]

My most recent favorite hunk of Wikipedia is the Talk page for Goran Bregovic, especially the POV section.

[Oslo Ostragoth]

This thread made my day.

[Captain_Awesome]

The 1859 Pig War.

[Hippy Hollow]

Originally Posted by Drain Bead

And the more generic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

I'm never leaving the house. The weirdest one has to be the entire football team being killed by one bolt of forked lightning!

[Meatros]

Originally Posted by Joe Frickin Friday

One of my favorites, endlessly fascinating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

I refuse to read that page...

[It's Not Rocket Surgery!]

Originally Posted by Hippy Hollow

I'm never leaving the house. The weirdest one has to be the entire football team being killed by one bolt of forked lightning!

And it was the entire VISITING team. Apparently, the home team lived - that has to be the greatest "home-field advantage" in history!

[Morbo]

Originally Posted by Meatros

I refuse to read that page...

OK then, I won't either.

[Cisco]

I just found one today on "Figging". Do NOT look this up from work.

[Miller]

Originally Posted by Hippy Hollow

I'm never leaving the house. The weirdest one has to be the entire football team being killed by one bolt of forked lightning!

No, this is the weirdest one. Fuckin' spooky.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

The List of Conspiracy Theories is always good for a laugh (at least that's what the government want you to believe).

[Mr. Kobayashi]

Being a paleoscatologist sounds like a load of old crap.

[lavenderviolet]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire...nd_watermelons

[RachelChristine]

Oh yeah, this is ALL I need... Good thing school is out for the summer and I have lots of free time now. These sites are *F-U-N*!!

[Ranchoth]

Not that unusual, aside from the creeping horror value, but an old favorite of mine, S.A. Andree's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897.

(Suffice it to say, mistakes were made)

[Cisco]

Originally Posted by Ranchoth

Not that unusual, aside from the creeping horror value, but an old favorite of mine, S.A. Andree's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897.

(Suffice it to say, mistakes were made)

I would love to read a book about that. Do you know if any have been written?

[FlyingRat]

This one's linked from the above-mentioned "unusual articles" page, but it's always good for a laugh: Metal Umlauts.

[Ranchoth]

Originally Posted by Cisco

I would love to read a book about that. Do you know if any have been written?

I haven't read it myself, but the article mentions a "semi-documentary" novel, The Flight of the Eagle, by Sundman, 1967. Apparently it was made into an Oscar nominated movie (!), but no version with English subtitles exists, let alone on DVD.

'nother odd, if not weird listing; the Africa flight of LZ104/L.59, which went from a one-way resupply flight to Lettow-Vorbeck's forces in Africa, to a 4,200 mile record-setting round trip after receiving a mistaken abort message.

[HeyHomie]

The Mary Celeste. A ship that was found floating, abandonded, in the Atlantic Ocean. No crew members were aboard, the ship was in sound condition, the weather was good, and all the cargo and the crew members' personal belongings were intact. There were no apparent signs of struggle.