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Quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement will blow your intuitive mind.

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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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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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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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Their finances and how God damn much money they blow every year

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

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Probably the most important part of that page is that Wikipedia asks people for donations when they already have enough money to exist perpetually. All the money people donate simply goes to executives’ salaries.

WMF’s salary costs have risen from $7 million in 2010/11 to $88 million in 2021/22. Yet, only 2% of the raised money goes towards hosting costs, and the remuneration for the hard-working contributors to Wikipedia remains the same: zero.

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That’s all untrue or misrepresentation. There aren’t that many executives and while money does get misused, that’s not where it’s going - instead some of it is going to grants and other programs that aren’t very important to the mission. However, quite a lot of donations go to very important projects, such as lawyers to keep editors in repressive countries out of jail, programmers to keep the website going, etc etc.

“2%” is a misrepresentation because programmer and operations salaries are a lot more than that and they’re equally important to keeping the lights on. If I own and operate a server for a website, then clearly my salary is part of what it takes to run the website even if it’s not included in “hosting”.

“Renumeration” is a red herring as paying contributors is obviously a non-starter.

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I literally just copy and pasted from the wiki page the person above me linked to.

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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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