r/wikipedia • u/Big-Log-824 • 9m 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 • u/Independent_Gur8612 • 26m 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 • u/shaquillebonemeal • 31m ago
Following this, Bolsonaro posted a video on Instagram stating that he had no intention to leave the country. However, he later fled the country with his wife and daughters, first to Argentina and then to the United States, allegedly heading to Florida.
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r/wikipedia • u/CorrectRip4203 • 1h 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/slinkslowdown • 1h 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/lisa_facetime • 3h 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/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/Pearl___ • 4h 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/joesom222 • 4h 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 • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 5h 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/CatPooedInMyShoe • 5h 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/prototyperspective • 5h 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/WhySoSeriously55 • 6h 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/slinkslowdown • 7h 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/Parkouricus • 7h 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/blankblank • 7h 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 • u/MrPresident0308 • 8h 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/Fickle-Ad5449 • 8h ago
The fight to preserve queer history is happening one Wikipedia edit at a time
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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 9h 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/Romboteryx • 9h 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 • u/syanxde • 10h 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/ASharpDressedTexan • 10h 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 • u/Mathemodel • 11h ago
PSA: Wikipedia has different information depending on the language you look at the page in
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For instance, the Catania Metro has a really interesting backstory and development and the English Wikipedia page has almost zero details.
Has anyone witnessed this themselves? What topics have they seen this in?
If you’re interested in metros this one is really cool! (def translate the italian page into whatever language you speak)
Italian: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitana_di_Catania
English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania_Metro
German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitana_di_Catania
r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 11h 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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