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SHOCKING: Wikipedia - What They Never Told You

What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia’s volunteers

This year, Wikipedia is celebrating 25 years as the internet’s encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In its first decade, the quirky experiment for passionate nerds exploded in popularity. It became a ubiquitous information resource and a homework helper for schoolkids, much to the dismay of skeptical teachers.

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35 Unsolved Mysteries That Still Don’t Have A Good Explanation

The less we know about something, the more fascinating it becomes. A missing person who vanished without a trace. A crime scene with no evidence to piece together. It makes us want to find out what really happened and come up with our own theories if no one else can.…

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All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves

It's all footnotes to Plato, just as Whitehead said.

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A 13-word Reddit comment can trick AI search into recommending scams, researchers find

New Cornell research shows just how little it takes to poison the answers from tools like ChatGPT and Gemini — and the queries you're most likely to ask are the easiest to manipulate.

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7 Footballers Whose Off-Pitch Crimes Left The World Speechless

Here are 7 footballers whose crimes left the world speechless.

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Mysterious 1937 Painting Sparks Wild Time Travel Theories After Viewers Spot Something ‘Out Of Place’

“It does bear a rather uncanny resemblance,” a historian said about the century-old painting.

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Company Hoping To Revive Extinct Animals By Cloning Them Successfully Creates The Artificial Egg Needed To Do So

“There’s no bird on Earth today that could grow a moa embryo inside one of their eggs. So we have to come up with artificial eggs.”

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Could it be aliens? From Cheyava Falls on Mars to exoplanet K2-18b – here’s what scientists really think

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the “strongest hints yet” of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b. And when talking about a collected sample from a rock named “Cheyava Falls” on Mars, Nasa Administrator…

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82 Wikipedia Pages That Made People Go “Hmmmm”

Wikipedia is weird! Lurking between the millions of highly informative articles are a bunch of really bizarre ones. Like the one of Jan Smit the paleontologist looking at rocks, or the detailed description of the word "blobject." Here are some of the most unhinged and hilarious ones spotted on the…

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43 Times Wikipedia Sent Users Down Unexpectedly Dark And Unsettling Rabbit Holes

If you don't feel like sleeping today, checking out the weird and dark side of Wikipedia is always a good idea. The site contains many entries about true crime, natural disasters, and real-life mysteries that people have deemed to be interesting enough to have their own Wikipedia pages. Check out…

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This Page Shared 69 Weird Animal Facts People Discovered While Falling Into A Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

When you think nothing can surprise you anymore, we’re here to prove you wrong. And this time it’s not inventions or major discoveries, but rather some “hidden” and often bizarre facts from the animal world sitting in the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’.

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How Dynamic QR Codes Were Invented in 2009: The Story Behind a Technology That Now Powers Billions of Scans

Dynamic QR codes are everywhere in 2026. They sit on restaurant menus, product packaging, conference badges, and nearly every consumer product moving through global retail.

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Female Soldier’s Horrific Passing After King Charles Performance Fuels Fresh Horse Show Scrutiny

“Her loss also raises uncomfortable questions about the dangers inherent in the ceremonial tradition,” a source said.

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Errol Flynn’s biographer calls him the greatest heartthrob of his time – but racist and a rapist too

Before Rupert Murdoch, there was Errol Flynn. The Tasmanian born Hollywood actor was arguably our most famous export to the United States until Murdoch moved in to control much of its media.

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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia leans on more right-wing sources in sensitive topics, study finds

Grokpedia articles about religion, history, literature and art referenced more right-wing websites than Wikipedia’s on the same topics, a new study found.

International Business Times

OpenAI System Resolves Longstanding Unit Distance Problem In Geometry

An AI system developed by OpenAI has produced a verified proof addressing a classic problem in discrete geometry first posed in 1946.

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Wikipedia’s most underrated logo finally gets the love it deserves

Wikipede, you will always have my heart.

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FED:Plausible mistakes: Wikipedia boss says don't trust AI

Artificial intelligence could make our lives better, according to Wikipedia's founder, but it's still far from being a reliable source of information.

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Plausible mistakes: Wikipedia boss says don't trust AI

Artificial intelligence could make our lives better, according to Wikipedia's founder, but it's still far from being a reliable source of information.

Reason

Memories of a Different Planet: Roentgenizdat

From Wikipedia, photo by Dmitry Rozhkov of display "Rock on bones" in Gallery "Vinzavod", Moscow (2008) My father Vladimir was… The post Memories of a Different Planet: Roentgenizdat appeared first on Reason.com.

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Did Greta Van Fleet Break Up or Tease New Music? The Hidden Clue Fans Think Everyone Missed

Greta Van Fleet's cryptic social media post has sparked speculation of a breakup, leaving fans confused and concerned. The band has not confirmed any split.

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Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and ‘embarrassment’

Jimmy Wales remembers a toxic internet even before social media and says AI is ‘not a disaster’ for the free – and freely edited - online encyclopaedia

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Writing one of Final Fantasy 14's sauciest songs required its lyricist to consult the tomes—Wikipedia's incredibly thorough BDSM page

All for the research, amirite?

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How to use MediaWiki to create and run your own Wiki page

With MediaWiki, you can create a Wiki installation in just a few steps. Here's how.

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Michael Is a Brutally Dull Biopic With Nothing to Say About Michael Jackson

This one's no thriller.

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