Cool Wikipedia pages
- Zeuxis (painter)
- "Death by laughter", and more old Greek artsy banter
- Ice Trade
- There used to be a large market ($660m in 2010 terms) for ice (from the artic!) pre good ice machines!
- Angus Wallace
- In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware!
- Pain in Babies
- "As recently as 1999, it was widely believed by medical professionals that babies could not feel pain..."
- Dublin Whiskey Fire
- 0 fire related deaths; 13 alcohol poisoning deaths from drinking the potent whiskey flowing through the streets.
- Destruction Under the Mongol Empire
- Ghengis Khan killed about 10% of the world's population, on par with the Black Death (WW2 killed about 3%)!
- List of Popes who died violently
- Of the first 31 popes, 28 were killed...!
- Dancing Mania
- Dancing Plague of 1518; also see the Tanganyika laughter epidemic
- Barber Surgeons
- Not just a barber, not just a surgeon, but a barber-surgeon.
- 1994 British Army Lynx Shootdown
- "Meanwhile, an IRA unit had mounted a Mark 15 mortar on a tractor, concealed behind bales of hay."
- List of Unusual Deaths
- Antonio López de Santa Anna
- Spaghetti-tree hoax
- the BBC told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best"
- Self-surgery
- High levels of badassery
- Contraception in Ireland
- Contraception could not be purchased without prescription by unmarried couples till 1985!
- Ohio does 10 cent beer night
- Ohio does balloonfest
- Dishwasher salmon
- "A dish any fool can prepare"
- Cocaine Bear
- Cocaine bear the movie is loosely based on a real story!
- Herb Kelleher
- The CEO of Southwest Airlines... ctrl + F "arm-wrestling"!
- Dyngus Day
- A Catholic celebration in Central + Eastern European "where the men wander around the town in colourful handmade costumes in search of a woman to soak"
- Acoustic Kitty
- 1960's CIA moonshot project to produce undercover cat spies
- Wojtek (The Soldier Bear)
- A Syrian brown bear adopted by the Polish Army, and eventually "[promoted] to the rank of Corporal"
- The Most Dangerous Writing App
- A web app which combats writers block by "deleting all progress if the user stops typing for five seconds"
- Demoscene
- 1904 Olympics Men's Marathon
- Yikes...
- Linguistic Relativity (Samir-Whorf hypothesis)
- Nobel Disease
- Light Pillar
- Naturally occuring beams of light via suspended ice particles reflecting light!
- Rhythm 0
- Infamous performance art work which brought out the worst in human nature when power and vulnerability is involved.
- ANT Catalog
- Real life James Bond gadgets via the pre-Snowden US goverment surveillance teams./