Cool Wikipedia Articles

[Qew]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suicide-inducing_parasitism

I know that's a category (get it GORY?) but still.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
and one more for now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

[Jub3r7]

These are so interesting that all viewers were enraptured by the article and were unable to post a reply.

It's stuff like the Voynich manuscript that make me want to go into cryptology, probably as a minor degree or something.

Also dancing plague what?

[Sekter77]

If you go to the list of Wikipedia shortcuts, and click the "Collaboration and Community" link, it'll take you down to all kinds of neat lists and essays made by the Wikipedia community. The last two sections (Wikipedia Culture and Essays, Department of Fun) are the ones to definitely check out.

There are so many unusually amazing articles there!

[Qew]

that's really cool sekter, I never knew that kind of stuff was in wikipedia before.

Jub3r7: dancing plague is the best. It's just so... strange.

I got some more too,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
These two are like the Voynich manuscript in how it's undecided what they are/the symbols mean/etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
cool name >_>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Down_(unidentified_sound)
There are tons of these weird sounds these are two of them, there are others in the related links part of either page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
"The idea for a ship made of ice impressed the United States and Canada enough that a 60-foot (18 m)-long, 1,000-ton ship was built in one month on Patricia Lake in the Canadian Rockies." that is all I have to say
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel's_Hole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomenon

ok enough for now :3

[jake3343]

Here are a few:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number

[Cobraroll]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

This one should be read by ALL of you.

Anyway, bump for this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK
There are lots of weird Wikipedia articles, indeed.

[Nakah]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2011

[SlowPokemon]

RIP Diana Wynne Jones

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[Jub3r7]

I read that as Indiana Jones for some reason.