r/wikipedia • • 19h ago

The Gombe Chimpanzee War, also known as the Four-Year War, was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978. The two groups were once unified in the Kasakela community.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Gio Scotti is an Italian influencer and model. Despite being apolitical, she has become an icon amongst various manosphere and far right groups, who create often AI imagery of her with fascist symbology or as an “Ancient Greek towelboy”. In 2025, she was briefly featured in a DHS edit on instagram.

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r/wikipedia • • 11h ago

Chroococcidiopsis is a photosynthetic bacterium known for its ability to survive extreme conditions, including both high and low temperatures, ionizing radiation, and high salinity. It is speculated that it could live on Mars and be used for terraforming the planet

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r/wikipedia • • 9h ago

Spiritual bypass is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks." The term was introduced in the mid 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Googoosh (1950-present) is an Iranian pop singer. During the 1970s she was so famous her clothing and hairstyle (the Googooshi) were widely copied by Iranian women. After the Islamic Revolution female singers were banned and she wouldn’t perform again until 2000 (outside of Iran).

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r/wikipedia • • 19h ago

Tightlacing (also called corset training) is the practice of wearing an increasingly tightly laced corset to achieve cosmetic modifications to the figure and posture or to experience the sensation of bodily restriction. The process originates in mid-19th century Europe and was controversial.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

A genocidal massacre in the city of El Fasher in western Sudan was carried out between 26 October and 4 November 2025. Tens of thousands of civilians were executed or murdered, spawning a prolonged refugee crisis.[10] The massacre was carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

The Wenis is a loose flap of skin underneath the joint of a human elbow. The word developed from slang in the 1990s. The area may also be referred to as olecranal skin, or simply elbow skin. It is known as a difficult or impossible spot to lick oneself.

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r/wikipedia • • 18h ago

The Royal Jackfruit and the Downfall of the House of Melaka

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1699, Johor: While her husband, Admiral Laksamana Megat Sri Rama, was away at sea defending the kingdom from pirates, the heavily pregnant Dang Anum stayed behind in the capital. One day, a penghulu (village headman) passed by with a jackfruit harvested from the Sultan’s highly restricted royal orchard. Experiencing intense pregnancy cravings, Dang Anum begged for a taste. The headman took pity on her, cut out a single slice, and gave it to her.

When the jackfruit was served to the young Sultan Mahmud Shah II, he immediately noticed it had been cut. Incited by jealous palace officials who claimed that a commoner eating before the king brought immense shame upon the crown, the Sultan flew into a rage and summoned Dang Anum.

Terrified for her life, Dang Anum pleaded for mercy, explaining that she had only eaten the slice to satisfy the intense cravings of her unborn child.

Refusing to believe her and demanding immediate proof, the tyrannical 24-year-old Sultan ordered her abdomen to be cleaved open right there in the palace. According to historical fables, when her womb was cut open, the fetus was discovered with the piece of jackfruit in its mouth. Both Dang Anum and her unborn child died instantly.

The palace guards kept the horrific murder a close secret. When Megat Seri Rama returned victorious from his military expedition, he was met not with celebration, but with the news that his entire family had been brutally slaughtered by the king he served.

Devastated and enraged, Megat Seri Rama ambushed the Sultan on a Friday afternoon on September 3, 1699, stabbing him to death while the ruler was being carried in a royal palanquin to Friday prayers, earning the late ruler the title Sultan Mahmud Mangkat Dijulang - 'Sultan Mahmud who died while being carried on a royal litter'.

Because the Sultan died without a surviving heir, his death ended the Malacca royal bloodline that stretched back centuries. His Bendahara (chief minister), Abdul Jalil, subsequently assumed the throne as Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah IV, ruling over Johor and Pahang in what is now Peninsular Malaysia, as well as territories in the Riau Archipelago.


r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Pagophagia is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which refers to the persistent consumption of nonnutritive substances, ice in this case, for over a period of at least one month.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Mordechai Vanunu is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.

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He was subsequently lured from Britain to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted. He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors.

Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement, though this type of punishment is not prescribed anywhere in Israel's penal code, nor imposed by his verdict. Released from prison in 2004, he was further subjected to a broad array of restrictions on his speech and his movement and arrested several times for violations of his parole terms, giving interviews to foreign journalists and attempting to leave Israel. He claims to have suffered from "cruel and barbaric treatment" at the hands of prison authorities, and suggests that things would have been different if he had not converted to Christianity.

In 2007 Vanunu was sentenced to six months in prison for violating terms of his parole. The sentence was considered unusually severe even by the prosecution, who expected a suspended sentence. In response, Amnesty International issued a press release in July 2007, stating that "The organization considers Mordechai Vanunu to be a prisoner of conscience and calls for his immediate and unconditional release." In May 2010 Vanunu was arrested again and sentenced to three months in jail on a charge that he had met foreigners, in violation of conditions of his 2004 release from prison. Since his most recent release from prison, Vanunu has been banned from leaving Israel to apply for asylum and join his wife in Norway, each time the expiration date of the ban approaches it has been extended[8]; this situation is unchanged as of 2026.

Vanunu has been characterized internationally as a whistleblower. American whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has referred to him as "the preeminent hero of the nuclear era". In 1987, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "his courage and self-sacrifice in revealing the extent of Israel's nuclear weapons program". Israel claims and regards Vanunu as a traitor.


r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Buck Colbert Franklin (May 6, 1879 – September 24, 1960) was an African American lawyer best known for defending survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. He was the father of John Hope Franklin who would become a prominent historian.

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r/wikipedia • • 1h ago

Why is it named "Good Day Predator.jpg"

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The name is suspicious and I just wanna talk about it with someone.


r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

George Weah served as the 25th president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Weah is the first African former professional footballer to become a head of state, and the only African Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history

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r/wikipedia • • 17h ago

The 14-bis was a pioneer era, canard-style biplane designed and built by Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1906, near Paris, the 14-bis made a manned powered flight that was the first to be publicly witnessed by a crowd and also filmed.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure.

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Anhedonia is common in people who are dependent upon any one or more of a wide variety of drugs, including alcohol), opioids, cannabinoids, and nicotine. Although anhedonia becomes less severe over time, it is a significant predictor of relapse.


r/wikipedia • • 1h ago

How do I chance the pic on my page?

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It's bloody horrendous! Is there a straight forward way of changing the one that's uploaded? Cheers in advance!


r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

On 3rd August 1914, British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey was heard to remark “the lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” Britain declared war on Germany, the next day.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Since 2005, Semir Osmanagić, a Bosnian-American businessman based in Houston, Texas, has claimed that a cluster of hills outside the town of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, are the largest human-made ancient pyramids on Earth. His claims have been overwhelmingly refuted by scientists.

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r/wikipedia • • 12h ago

Meta Discussion Wikitools

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Do y'all have any go to wikipedia tools that you use? I am only familiar with the Rater.


r/wikipedia • • 6h ago

Saw my edit on Instagram

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On March 4, 2019, I edited the article to add to its first sentence. I added the language “as well as ‘motion picture box office receipts’.” Today, almost eight years later, I saw this Instagram post, which featured a screenshot of the article with my edit still there.

I thought it was pretty cool. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Theoretically, someone could recognize an edit of theirs on a TV show. Where’s the oddest place you’ve seen your edit?


r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Orienteering is a group of sports in which participants use a map and compass to navigate from point to point in unfamiliar terrain as quickly as possible.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Volt Europa is a transnational pro-European and federalist European political alliance, operating as a pan-European umbrella for subsidiary parties sharing the same name and branding. The party advocates for a stronger, integrated European Union, with the long-term goal of creating a federal Europe.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Kjærlighetskarusellen or Carousel of Love is a public urinal in Norway. The urinal, built in a functionalist style in 1937, was used as a meeting place for homosexual men, in a time when homosexuality was both socially unacceptable and illegal in Norway.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Early parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 25 October 2026 to elect members of the National Assembly. The Student List won the election with a projected absolute majority of seats, defeating the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which had been in power since 2012.

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