The 100 Most Interesting Wikipedia Entries

[TheMojoPin]

Or so this blog claims.

Here's the first 50. (http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-50-most-interesting-articles-on-wikipedia/?c)

1. Marree Man
2. War Plan Red
3. Vela Incident
4. Tybee Bomb
5. United States Numbered Highways
6. Wow! Signal
7. Tube Bar Prank Calls
8. Kola Superdeep Borehole
9. Back to the Future Timeline
10. Year Without a Summer
11. K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
12. Sokal Affair
13. Blue Peacock
14. Veerappan
15. Person From Porlock
16. Eternal Flame
17. U.S. Color-Coded War Plans
18. The Wedge (Border)
19. Mohave Phone Booth
20. Stanislav Petrov
21. Valery Sablin
22. The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
23. Special Atomic Demolition Munition
24. Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
25. Prometheus (tree)
26. Zone of Alienation
27. Fan Death
28. Outlawries Bill
29. Raymond Robinson (Green Man)
30. Scoville Scale
31. Kardashev Scale
32. Larry Walters
33. Joshua A. Norton
34. Fabergé egg
35. Issei Sagawa
36. Joseph Jagger
37. Traumatic Insemination
38. James Joseph Dresnok
39. Ivy League Nude Posture Photos
40. Jim Corbett (Hunter)
41. Just-World Phenomenon
42. Nicholas Bourbaki
43. Humanzee
44. Old Man of the Lake
45. Alexamenos Graffito
46. Fairy Chess Piece
47. Michael Fagan Incident
48. ETAOIN SHRDLU
49. Palomares Hydrogen Bomb Incident
50. As Slow as Possible

Here's the second 50. (http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/50-more-of-wikipedias-most-interesting-articles/)

1. Anthropodermic bibliopegy
2. Elm Farm Ollie
3. EURion constellation
4. (the) Demon core
5. Pole of inaccessibility
6. Globster
7. Hoba meteorite
8. Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
9. GRB 971214
10. “Resolute” desk
11. Candace Newmaker
12. Cryptomnesia
13. Hans Island
14. Harrowing of Hell
15. Semantic satiation
16. Dempster Highway
17. Dalton Highway
18. Paul Felix Armand-Delille
19. Herschel Island
20. Stone spheres of Costa Rica
21. Paternoster
22. Self-immolation
23. Narco submarine
24. Louis Slotin
25. Language deprivation experiments
26. London Stone
27. Cité Soleil
28. Blood chit
29. Parsley Massacre
30. Ribbon Creek Incident
31. Art intervention
32. Impostor
33. Bata LoBagola
34. Cheating at the Paralympic Games
35. David Hempleman-Adams
36. The Kafka Machine
37. Park Young Seok
38. Houston Riot (1917)
39. Albert Pierrepoint
40. Discoveries of human feet on British Columbia beaches, 2007–2008
41. Taman Shud Case
42. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
43. First flying machine
44. Defeat in Detail
45. Peppered moth evolution
46. Resource holding potential
47. Saint Dismas
48. Target girl
49. Longevity myths
50. SL-1

The list is subjective and really isn't in any kind of order as to which are best but I found both lists to be great ways to pass a ton of time when I should be working. I figured people would enjoy these and maybe could post other interesting or odd Wikipedia entries that they've found.

[Misteriosa]

oh man.. i need to get out more... i know about too many of these :down:

[Furtherman]

20. Stone spheres of Costa Rica

Those are awesome.

[realmenhatelife]

I got on a kick where I was reading about all the ancient trees like Prometheus. It's insane.

[Meataball23]

I love to waste time at work!

Thanks!

[DiabloSammich]

Employees are paid to work, not look at Wikipedia articles.

People like Mojo are why illegal immigration will never die.

[Mitch&Murray]

oxymoron

[disneyspy]

People Like Mojo Are The Reason For Mail Order Brides!!

[DiabloSammich]

People Like Mojo Are The Reason For Mail Order Brides!!


Nice fail on the all caps.

[IMSlacker]

Nice fail on the all caps.

Or success on the initial caps.

[disneyspy]

Nice fail on the all caps.

i was busy with my mag

[TheMojoPin]

Employees are paid to work, not look at Wikipedia articles.

People like Mojo are why illegal immigration will never die.

I do what I can.

When I feel like it.

Which isn't often.

[Chigworthy]

People like Mojo are responsible for me wasting the last hour.

[ozzie]

<strike>I figured people would enjoy these and maybe could post other interesting or odd Wikipedia entries that they've found.</strike>

Because perhaps other than Wikipedia which I is possible and is verified that is interesting it was strange entry item of the people who were calculated and these were enjoyed, it posts.

Fixed

[TheMojoPin]

41. Taman Shud Case

Holy crap, this one is incredible. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case)

I don't think anyone could invent a better mystery than that.

[lleeder]

Holy crap, this one is incredible. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case)

I don't think anyone invent a better mystery than that.

I guess you never read any of The Hardy Boys.

[TheMojoPin]

Which one would you prefer to mouthfuck?

[lleeder]

Whichever one isnt ass raping Nancy Drew

[DiabloSammich]

Great. Not a single guy on the crew knows how my wheelbarrow got run over but they all know everything about traumatic insemination.


Thanks, Mojo.

[RhinoinMN]

Great. Not a single guy on the crew knows how my wheelbarrow got run over but they all know everything about traumatic insemination.


Thanks, Mojo.

That is strange. I have similar workers that claim phantoms break the equipment around here.

[DiabloSammich]

That is strange. I have similar workers that claim phantoms break the equipment around here.



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