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Care to share an interesting Wikipedia article you've read recently?

Asked by bluemukaki (4332points) October 22nd, 2010

Wikipedia is fun, but their random article link is close to completely useless. Let’s all share some interesting Wikipedia articles so we can all read Wikipedia for the rest of our lives.

I’ll start:

Inuktituk, is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada.

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Coloma's avatar

Just read this a bit ago after todays fatal shark attack here in Northern Ca.

en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_fatal,unprovoked_shark_attacks_in_the_united states-

Sandman's avatar

Perhaps,
You will really get a kick out of this. It is quite entertaining and one of those rare gems from the depths of Wikipedia.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~deepthi/If_on_a_winter%27s_night_a_traveler.html

Coloma's avatar

@Sandman

I wanted to read but came up URL not available.
Maybe check your link?

Waah. ;-)

tearsxsolitude's avatar

I really like the one on explaining LSD and the one that talks out who wrote the American pledge of alligiance.

timtrueman's avatar

Not an article exactly but pretty interesting I would argue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Panorama

bluemukaki's avatar

Ok here’s another fun one: Etymology of Marijuana. Turns out Marijuana was used as a term for cannabis by the drug’s critics in the 1930s because they thought the ‘foreign sounding’ name would make people less likely to support the use of it.

Fluther didn’t like the URL because of the brackets and things, so I used a URL shortener

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