# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/21 "2011-03-28T22:34:05Z")
“[Sutilizona theca](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutilizona_theca) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Sutilizonidae.” This is the complete text of the article, which is a stub. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/22 "2011-03-28T22:40:00Z")
[Phil Vassar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Phil_Vassar) wrote or co-wrote 71 songs, but none beginning with the letters K, Q, V, X, or Z. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/23 "2011-03-29T00:26:22Z")
[Attalus II Philadelphus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attalus_II_Philadelphus), King of Pergamon, was the inventor of a new kind of embroidery. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/24 "2011-04-01T10:48:09Z")
[Hiroyuki Takeda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Takeda) (武田 博行) is a Japanese football (soccer) player who has never made any goals as of December 2010. ---
**Author:** ![sohvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sohvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sohvan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/25 "2011-04-01T11:59:37Z")
There was no federal statute in 1955 to make blowing up an airplane illegal. When the [United Airlines Flight 629](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629) was blown up by someone placing a bomb made from dynamite in his mother’s luggage, he was only charged for one count of first degree murder despite killing 44 people. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/26 "2011-04-01T12:00:02Z")
[Hiroyuki Takeda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Takeda) (武田 博行) is a Japanese football (soccer) player who … oh you have **got** to be kidding me! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/27 "2011-04-01T12:12:48Z")
It’s amazing how many facts paleontologists can deduce (or make up) from just four vertebrae of a kind never seen before. In fact, they can make a full [Sauroposeidon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauroposeidon) out of them. The bones have been dated to the early Cretaceous, making it one of the last dinosaurs to have lived in the US region. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/28 "2011-04-01T13:51:55Z")
Peroxisome assembly factor 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the [PEX6 gene](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEX6). Also, the entry for the PEX6 gene is two sentences long, but the references go on for a page and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/29 "2011-04-01T14:05:00Z")
[Andrew Tosh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tosh) (born Andrew McIntosh, 19 June 1967, Kingston, Jamaica), is a reggae singer and the son of the late Peter Tosh. He is the nephew of reggae singer Bunny Wailer, an original member of The Wailers ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/30 "2011-04-01T14:27:10Z")
Under [Efficient Taxation of Income](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_Taxation_of_Income), a proposed flat tax of sorts, working income would be taxed at 10% and property-type income at 30%. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215/31 "2011-04-04T05:32:41Z")
[Vincentia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincentia_%28genus%29) is a genus of cardinalfishes, containing six species. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-one-fact-from-whatever-page-you-get-on-wikipedias-random-page/576215.md?page=1)