Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of October 26, 2026

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r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 10h ago

The oldest known bar joke is from ancient Sumer, written down in 1700 BC. The joke is "A dog, having entered an inn, did not see anything, (and so he said): 'Shall I open this (door)?". The meaning of the joke is lost in time, scholars have speculated it to be about tavern prostitution or a pun.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 3h ago

Bat Pussy is a pornographic parody of Batman believed to have been produced in the early 1970s and is considered one of the worst pornographic films of all time. It is not known who made the film or starred in it. It was rediscovered in the back room of an adult movie theater in the 1990s.

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r/wikipedia • u/Fickle-Ad5449 • 7h ago

The fight to preserve queer history is happening one Wikipedia edit at a time

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 3h ago

"Rosa" was a sea otter living in Monterey Bay Aquarium. While at the aquarium, she raised 15 orpahned Otter pups, and her annual birthday streams by streamer Doug Doug raised over a million dollars for the aquarium. She died in 2024, at the age of 24, the oldest sea otter in the aquarium.

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r/wikipedia • u/prototyperspective • 4h ago

A 2022 study found that belief in witchcraft, as in the use of malevolent magic or powers, is still widespread in some parts of the world. It...varied from 9% of people in some countries to 90% in others

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r/wikipedia • u/MrPresident0308 • 7h ago

The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is a Japanese expression referring to a sudden urge to defecate that is felt upon entering bookstores.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 9h ago

The Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group "Rusich" is a Russian far-right and neo-Nazi paramilitary unit that has been fighting against Ukrainian forces in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 15h ago

The Harrying of the North was a series of military campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in 1069–1070 to subjugate Northern England. Contemporary chronicles vividly record the savagery of the campaign. Records suggest that as much as 75% of the population could have died or never returned.

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r/wikipedia • u/Parkouricus • 6h ago

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show on BBC primetime television that ran from 1958 to 1978. Most male castmembers on the show dressed in blackface. Despite overwhelming success, the show received consistent criticism for its racist content.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 8h ago

Gigantopithecus is an extinct great ape that lived in China during the Ice Ages. Though size estimations vary, it is generally regarded as the largest primate ever to have lived. Cryptozoologists have argued that the animal survived into modernity and identified it with Bigfoot and the Yeti.

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r/wikipedia • u/Theseus505 • 17h ago

Following the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024, Israel invaded the demilitarized buffer zone in southwestern Syria (adjacent to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights) and has continued to occupy it.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 4h ago

When Gallileo’s daughter Virginia took the veil, she chose the religious name Maria Celeste, after the Virgin Mary and her father’s love of astronomy. She was close to her father, and as a cloistered nun she supported both her religious order and her father by working as an apothecary.

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 21m ago

A shaggy God story attempts to explain Biblical concepts with science fiction tropes. A typical shaggy God story might feature a pair of astronauts landing on a lush and virgin world and in the last line their names are revealed as Adam and Eve.

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 6h ago

The Action Max is a home video game console that uses VHS tapes for games. The system requires the player to also have a VCR, as the console has no way to play the requisite VHS tapes itself.

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r/wikipedia • u/Iamsodarncool • 1d ago

Childlore is a folklore or folk culture that is learned and passed on by children to other children. It can include games, riddles, rhymes, oral stories, codes, fantasies, jokes, and superstitions created by children.

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r/wikipedia • u/BlackPantherDies • 16h ago

TikTokification describes the widespread adoption of TikTok's short-form, vertical video format and its algorithmic content-delivery model. It also describes shifts in media consumption habits, advertising, and potential psychological effects associated with constant short-form video consumption.

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r/wikipedia • u/MAClaymore • 1d ago

The English Wikipedia phenomenon where clicking the first link in the main text usually leads you to "Philosophy" is not true for many East Asian-language Wikipedias, which converge on topics such as "humans" and "Earth" instead

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r/wikipedia • u/CorrectRip4203 • 8m ago

The Fortnite Holocaust Museum, also known as Voices of the Forgotten, is a virtual museum in the video game Fortnite Creative, designed by Luc Bernard and approved by publisher Epic Games. It became available in August 2023.

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r/wikipedia • u/WhySoSeriously55 • 5h ago

One Settler, One Bullet was a rallying cry and slogan originated by the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), during the struggle of the 1980s against apartheid in South Africa.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 4h ago

Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whereby corporate groups form the basis of society and the state.

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r/wikipedia • u/lisa_facetime • 2h ago

The Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society was founded in Bentonville, Ohio in March 1853. The society was created to stop horse thievery, since horses were essential to transportation and farming in the 19th century. The society has been operational for over 150 years.

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r/wikipedia • u/greatpartyisntit • 18h ago

The floor is lava is a game in which players pretend the ground is made of a lethal substance and must avoid touching the ground as not to “die”.

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r/wikipedia • u/keequalshalfmvsqrd • 12h ago

Gödel's incompleteness theorems

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r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 12h ago

Johannes Junius (1573-1628) was the mayor of Bamberg and was publicly burned to death in the Bamberg Witch Trials. A letter to his daughter describing his confession under torture was smuggled out and is in the Bamberg library.

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