Wikipedia which is a free-get to, free substance Internet reference book, underpinned and facilitated by the non-benefit Wikimedia Foundation was propelled by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, on fifteenth of January 2001.
With around 500 million special guests every month and a shocking 4,695,150 articles, Wikipedia for sure emerges in the apex of web media stage.
Wikipedia is similar to your closest companion from secondary school regardless of the possibility that you were never entirely beyond any doubt in the event that she was genuinely a legitimate wellspring of data, you depend on her constantly.
Thus, out of appreciation for a long time of the immeasurable and steadily becoming inventory of helpful data.
A gathering was made by Bustle distribution on the 27 most unusual articles on Wikipedia.
1. A comprehensive list of Las Vegas casinos that never opened.
2. A history of The Great Emu War of Australia.
3. An explanation of Graham’s Number; a number so large that the entirety of the known universe cannot contain it.
4. A sentence explaining perfect grammar (which makes absolutely no sense).
5. An article on why some pages are labeled ”page intentionally left blank.”
6. A comprehensive list of those words we use when we can’t think of the word. Oh, you know, thingamajigs?
7. A page about the only idiom for daydreaming that you should ever use.
8. An article abut this woman, who has a numerical digit for a middle name.
9. An explanation of The Hum —a cosmic phenomenon that may or may not be a recycled plot from Twin Peaks/The X-Files.
10. Apparently, the Harvard Bridge is measured in smoots.
11. There is actual science behind “new car smell,” and this is it.
12. Brushing your hair can cause fainting, according to this page.
13. An article on Jack Black —no, not that Jack Black. This guy was Queen Victoria’s personal … rat catcher?
14. An explanation of the phrase No Soap Radio — the only thing worse than puns.
15. A list of obituaries which were published too soon — i.e. the person wasn’t actually dead.
16. A recap of the delightful tale of Owen and Mzee, a hippo and turtle who are BFFs.
17. A list of ”Phantom Kangaroos” — accounts of kangaroos appearing in places you would not expect to find them. So, basically anywhere outside of Australia?
18. A page about the legend of the Poe Toaster; someone who shadily visited Edgar Allen Poe’s grave, with wine, on his birthday for seventy years — and no one knows who they were or why they kept showing up. (This sounds like a Poe story!)
19. Apparently, one time, the military thought bombs guided by pigeons could be a thing.
20. A list of every exclamation uttered by Batman’s right hand man, Robin, in the television series. “Holy Batman!”
21. A list of every Apollo mission that never happened. #MoonFail
22. A post on this woman, who survived not just the sinking of the Titanic, but its sister ship the Britannica as well.
23. An explanation of the real-life inspiration for that running gag on The Simpsons where Bart prank calls Moe’s Tavern (I’m looking for Amanda Huginkiss?)
24. An article about a piece of music, composed for piano, that is supposed to be played so slowly that is started playing on a church organ in 2001 — and won’t be done until 2640.
25. An article about a disfigured man who accidentally became a horrifying urban legend because he enjoyed taking strolls through his town at night.
26. The comprehensive list of paradoxes that will make your brain hurt.
27. A list of fictional ducks. YES DUCKS.
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