Fascinating Wikipedia Pages for the Terminally Bored at Work

[AnthonyCinder]

This might have been posted previously, but I sure as shit am not going to look through 47 pages.

I found the storied history of "Louie Louie" to be particularly fascinating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie

[lebkuchen]

The Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCat_Bib ... on_Project

The project:

http://www.lolcatbible.com

[subprime]

Ugh. Lolcats stopped being funny in like 2008. Internet memes always suck by the time they hit critical mass.

[dabrasha]

Arthur Crew Inman

[Mr Egg]

Wang's at the ready gentlemen.

Gigantomastia

[subprime]

they look like balls more than tits.

[Marsupialized]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_named_massacres

[Bill Swansea]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lambert

[goatlord]

Gambino's soldier and mass slayer Roy DeMeo.

[johnnyshape]

I think this has been up before but it's amazing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

Proper Boy's Own spy shit.

[Cranius]

Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol

The dangerous bend or caution symbol ☡ (U+2621 ☡ caution sign) was created by the Nicolas Bourbaki group of mathematicians and appears in the margins of mathematics books written by the group. It resembles a road sign that indicates a "dangerous bend" in the road ahead, and is used to mark passages tricky on a first reading or with an especially difficult argument.

Others have used variations of the symbol in their textbooks, and computer scientist Donald Knuth introduced a more realistic road-sign depiction in his Metafont and TeX systems, with a pair of adjacent signs indicating doubly dangerous passages.

[Marsupialized]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Matewan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

[Cranius]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Matewan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

[lebkuchen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_timescales

[Eugenius]

List of football (soccer) players who spent their whole career at one club and played in the senior team for over a decade or more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_club_players

[Marsupialized]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite

[Charlie D]

Not far from the house, little did I know that I was a five minute bike ride from White Castle Building No. 8: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Cast ... ding_No._8

[Adrian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvedon_H ... ear_Bunker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Go ... adquarters

[circle_ruler]

Darwin used to get the willies about these. another nail in the creationists' notions of a benevolent god as opposed to a deranged sadist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk

The female tarantula hawk captures, stings, and paralyzes the spider, then either drags her prey back into her own burrow or transports it to a specially prepared nest, where a single egg is laid on the spider’s abdomen, and the entrance is covered. When the wasp larva hatches, it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters the spider's abdomen and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. After several weeks, the larva pupates. Finally, the wasp becomes an adult, and emerges from the spider's abdomen.

related species parasitize caterpillars.



parasitic wasps. be thankful for the concentration of oxygen we have in the atmosphere. if it ever rose to Carboniferous levels (around 35%) then these things could get to 3 feet long and be after larger prey.

[newberry]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants

"This is a list of people who have been said to be a messiah, either by themselves or by their followers."