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Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 days ago

What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?

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What have you looked up on Wikipedia recently?

Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 days ago
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    19 days ago

    Such variety!

    • turdcollector69@lemmy.world
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      Harlem shake? Disgusting and degenerate

      • konalt@lemmy.world
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        I forgot what it was

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    Most recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Hey me too!

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face, sorry.

    • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
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      The new South Park is killing it

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’d rather share my porn history

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
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      OK. Let’s have it then. I’m always looking for recommendations.

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      Both my porn and my Wikipedia history include Monosodium Glutamate

  • toomanypancakes@piefed.world
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break

    I was helping a friend with music production, you see

    • DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Very cool love that I have this bit of knowledge. Can’t wait I can bring it up organically when a song with it plays. I never even thought about how different beats or bits of songs have specific names. Anyone have that wiki??

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier

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    This might have been a link, not a search but still, enjoy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic

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      I fucking love beavers!!

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt?wprov=sfla1

    I saw Godzilla Minus One recently and I was curious about this.

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    The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You’ll recognise the first one from “veni vidi vici” and the second from “invincible”. Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)

    It might also be the root of the word “now” in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it’s not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in “recent”, which would be pre-PIE if true.

    Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.

  • 𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒@lemmy.world
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    Because yesterday was the fifth of November, I looked up Wikipedia pages about the story and person(s) that inspired the movie, V for Vendetta

    The Wiki article about the Gunpowder Plot in particular was most interesting.

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    I was wondering what Vin Diesel and Billy Strings real names were. Mark Sinclair & William Apostol. Then i read about stage names

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    The article on Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish military genius and aid to Washington and the colonialists during the American Revolutionary War. He was in with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson too. Among many other things, he designed the fortifications around West Point.

    He also led the “Kościuszko Uprising” against the Russian occupation of Poland.

    My favorite anecdote from the article is that he was all about human rights. He willed a portion of his estate to freeing enslaved black people, including Thomas Jefferson’s slaves specifically. Everyone charged with executing his will balked at that one though, the money ended up going to education for black people instead. Still, what a way to get a final mic drop against a colleague from beyond the grave.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_sheep

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_prehistory

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

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    From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.

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