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May I share Wikipedia’s List of Lists of Lists

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How about a list of lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes

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Woa! That was wild!

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That third list is how you can describe high int low wisdom.

Smart enough to get there devices to move, not wise enough to have any safety precautions.

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Whoooa, I already knew about Franz Reichelt, but never knew there was actual footage of the test jump. That’s almost straight up NSFL, if not for the old timey camera making it hard to see anything.

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The list of common misconceptions was really interesting. Thanks!

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Absolutely awesome page. I’ve just spent half an hour reading it and will be back to it.

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I don’t know if it’s the absolute best, but the page for the band The Butthole Surfers is pretty excellent.

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In 1986, they first met Lynch (a.k.a. Kathleen, a.k.a. Ta-Da the Shit Lady), who was then working at a strip club called Sex World in New York City.[75] Though never an official member, she became Butthole Surfers’ famous “naked dancer”, performing intermittently with them through 1989.[9] One show in Washington, D.C., with GWAR saw Kathleen take the stage to dance in nothing but gold body paint and antique wooden snow shoes. At another particularly wild concert in 1986, Haynes and Lynch, by now completely bald, reportedly engaged in sexual intercourse while on stage, as Leary used a screwdriver to vandalize the club’s speakers. This came after only five songs, during which time Haynes had started a small fire.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

Never seen Wikipedia this judgemental before

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All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology contradicts homeopathy

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Can you blame them? Quack medical pseudoscience gets people killed.

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“that’s what big pharma wants you to think”

—too many people I know

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I too think it is justified. Simply not used to this tone on Wikipedia. Which is why I find it funny.

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Seemed factual, not judgemental…

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A bit morbid, but there’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths. Features stuff like:

Sergio Millán, 59, was alone in his apartment in Torreforta, Tarragona, Spain, when an explosion in a petrochemical plant 3 kilometres (2 mi) away launched a one-ton iron plate into the apartment above him, causing the ceiling to collapse, killing him.

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Vladimir Likhonos, 25, a student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from Konotop, was killed when his chewing gum exploded. Likhonos had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to increase the gum’s sour taste. On his work table police found about 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies at home. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two, having accidentally coated his gum in the explosive powder before chewing it. The explosive was found to be four times stronger than TNT, and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos’s saliva, or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder.

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second one is some loony tunes behaviour

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How would they have deducted from his exploded skull that the cause was chewing gum dipped in explosive powder? That is some incredible forensic work. Or maybe they had cameras?

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Well when you find a guy with an exploded face, it obviously warrants some further Investigation. I could imagine them looking for a bullet and not finding any, then investigating further. The info about him dipping his chewing gum in citric acid might have been given by friends, they also found the explosive, and from there it’s not a huge jump to the explanation they found.

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