Interesting Wiki Pages

Hyphen War


Hyphens can be very contentious.

National Raisin Reserve


An unconstitutional reserve of raisins.

Guard goose


Pomeranian is one of the best

breeds of goose to use as a guard.

Moon tree


The Neil Armstrong of trees.

Love dart


Cupid's arrow IRL

is shot by snails.

Exploding Toads


A thousand toads a'splodin

Male pregnancy


Males can do it too.

Maybe even humans.

Necking


Giraffes fight with their necks.

A Private Squirrel Bridge


A squirrel bridge was built in The Hague.

Only 5 squirrels have used it.

The Good Coal Times


Most coal comes from the one period. No bacteria or fungus could decompose trees, so all the dead trees just piled up.

A Place to Definitely Avoid


There's a spot in Yellowstone where murder is kinda legal.

Strategic Own-Goals


A soccer game where two teams deliberately and correctly scored in their own goal.

CQD


The original "SOS" was "CQD".

Woman Birthed Rabbits


Mary Toft gave birth

to rabbits.

Great Stink


The Great Stink was

an event in 1858 when

London was very stinky.

Magenta


The color spectrum is

ROYGBIV.

Where is magenta?

Only in your head.

Zero stroke


An alleged mental disorder,

people wrote endless zeroes

caused by currency hyperinflation.

Alternative 3


The smartest people are fleeing

to the Moon and Mars.

Just a hoax, presumably.

Elvis taxon


An Elvis Taxon is where a

category is believed extinct,

later misidentified as non-extinct

but was dead all along.

Metargon


When scientists discovered

Neon and Argon

they discovered one more...

Metargon

Mpemba effect


Generations have believed that

Hot water freezes faster than

room temperature water.

We still aren't sure if it is true.

Bookland


According to UPC Barcodes

all books are from the

country "Bookland".

Glass delusion


A psychiatric disorder:

the belief you are made of glass.

King Charles IV of France had it.

Defenestrate


Defenestrate (verb)

1. Throw someone out a window.

They kept doing it in Prague.

Cosmic Latte


Scientists confirm:

the Universe is one big latte.

Die Laughing


Be careful when you laugh.

Chrys of Soli died after

after laughing too hard

over a donkey eating a fig.

Zenzizenzizenzic


Zenzi = x^2

Thrice: ((x^2)^2)^2 = x^8

Retrofuturism


The past's future

but not the one we're in.

Cheshire Cat


Ceshire Cat predates

Alice in Wonderland.

The cats grin because

Ceshire is famous for dairy.

Vampire Pumpkins


In the Balkans

even the fruit

are vampires.

Sky Banana


The Canadian gov't paid for a 1000ft flying banana over Texas

They're still waiting for what they paid for

Big Deuce VII


Big Deuce VII is an US Army mascot donkey

German Cake


German Chocolate Cake

is not from Germany.

Named after the baker

Samuel German.

Moon Museum


A small ceramic wafer,

Six works of art.

Secretly left on the moon.

Oldenburg drew Mickey.

Andy Warhol drew a penis.

Belphegor's Prime


10000000000000

666

00000000000001

is a prime number.

Named after evil Belphegor.

Y'all Tower


"Florence Mall" water tower

ruled illegal.

Easy fix:

change Mall to a Y'all

Bananadine


A fictional psychoactive substance

Could it be real?

Only one way to find out...

Fallen Astronaut


3.5-inch sculpture

Secretly placed on the moon

by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971.

Spherical cow


Physicists

oversimplify

cows.

Superlambanana


17 foot tall banana-lamb hybrid

Liverpool's main exports:

1. Lambs

2. Bananas

Pistol shrimp


They shoot bubbles at 60mph

The bubbles are so loud that they

interfere with anti-submarine warfare

El Tío


Bolivian Miners worship El Tio

below ground, and Christ above.

The Pope doesn't approve.