# Tell me one fact from whatever page you get on Wikipedia's "Random Page". **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 28, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215 "2011-03-28T03:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/1 "2011-03-28T03:45:05Z")
First, click [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random). That link will take you to a random Wikipedia page. Tell me something you learn about the page it happens to drop you onto. 🙂 When I clicked it just now: There’s a game called [Puchi Puchi Virus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puchi_Puchi_Virus), apparently…and it has 102 levels. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/2 "2011-03-28T03:51:01Z")
[Apparently the pejorative “white trash” has origins among black slaves.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash) “In 1833 Fanny Kemble, an English actress visiting Georgia, noted in her journal:” > [@Fanny Kemble](#): > > The slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/3 "2011-03-28T04:04:20Z")
[Dana Schoenfield](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Schoenfield), American silver medal winner in 200 metre breaststroke at the 1972 Summer Olympics, went on to join the 1976 UCLA Spirit Squad and met her football player husband when they shared their first kiss after the Rose Bowl win. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/4 "2011-03-28T04:05:52Z")
The convenor of [AJPF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhand_Jharkhand_People%27s_Front) is ex-MP Pratap Singh. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/5 "2011-03-28T04:07:25Z")
[Marianne Jelved](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Jelved) was elected to the Parliament of Denmark in 1987 for the Social Liberal Party (Det Radikale Venstre), and was Minister of Economic Affairs from January 1993 to November 2001. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/6 "2011-03-28T04:11:01Z")
There was apparently a [comic about an evolved cockroach and his crew who all traveled through space together.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_chance) ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/7 "2011-03-28T04:13:41Z")
[Alfred Baring Garrod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Baring_Garrod) was an English physician who is credited with coining the term “rheumatoid arthritis.” ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/8 "2011-03-28T04:24:04Z")
[Swiss compulsory military](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Switzerland)service is crazy, in a nonjudgmental way. > [@](#): > > People determined unfit for service, where fitness is defined as “satisfying physically, intellectually and psychically requirements for military service or civil protection service and being capable of accomplishing these services without harming oneself or others”,[22] are exempted from service but pay a 3% additional annual income tax until the age of 30, unless they are affected by a disability. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/9 "2011-03-28T04:32:21Z")
[A Firebox (for Moonshine)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebox_(moonshine)) A firebox is used in the manufacturing of moonshine. It is often fashioned from stones or bricks, to contain the flames while also concealing them, and to keep the still apparatus above the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/10 "2011-03-28T04:41:57Z")
[The Best of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Porter_Wagoner_and_Dolly_Parton) did not contain anything from their duet album _Always, Always_. ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/11 "2011-03-28T04:45:54Z")
[Nambeesan is a sub-caste of Ambalavasi.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambeesan) When a family within an Indian caste does not follow certain rules of the caste (in this case, marrying off daughters before puberty) they are kicked out of the caste and its obligations. They don’t get demoted to another already extant caste, however, they and their descendants instead form a new sub-caste wih a new occupation. Hence, the Nambeesan, whose occupation was to provide flowers to the priests and temples. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/12 "2011-03-28T04:54:15Z")
[Riiko Sakkinen’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riiko_Sakkinen) last solo exhibition was 2009’s “Jani & Riiko’s Free World” at the Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki. ---
**Author:** ![badlyburnttoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@badlyburnttoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badlyburnttoast)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/13 "2011-03-28T04:59:06Z")
[Djumu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djumu) also spelled Djoemoe, is a town in Suriname. Hope you like it, that’s the only fact there is about the place. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/14 "2011-03-28T05:01:59Z")
Rough River Lake is the primary attraction of [Rough River Dam State Resort Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_River_Dam_State_Resort_Park). ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/15 "2011-03-28T12:10:46Z")
A historical factoid: Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army buys some horses from the Range Busters’ ranch for service in the Philippines. [Texas to Bataan.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_to_Bataan) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/16 "2011-03-28T12:21:39Z")
The [Winnipeg Jets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_Winnipeg_Jets_season) went 33–36–11 for the 1987-88 season, which was good enough to make the playoffs, but they were eliminated in the first round. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/17 "2011-03-28T12:51:47Z")
[Charles Redheffer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Redheffer) received a patent for his perpetual motion machine in 1820. An earlier perpetual motion invention of his had been discovered to be powered by a man turning a crank in another room. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/18 "2011-03-28T21:02:55Z")
> [@badlyburnttoast](#): > > [Djumu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djumu) also spelled Djoemoe, is a town in Suriname. > > Hope you like it, that’s the only fact there is about the place. Similarly, [Wólka-Przekory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B3lka-Przekory) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rząśnik, within Wyszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/19 "2011-03-28T21:53:38Z")
Aircraft designer [George A. Spratt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Spratt) was the father of George G. Spratt who was also an aircraft designer. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/20 "2011-03-28T21:58:02Z")
Okrasin [ɔˈkraɕin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radziłów, within Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215.md?page=2)