Born on 15 January 2001, Wikipedia has forever changed the ways we consume knowledge as nothing was out of reach anymore. It made it possible to solve trivia if you had access to wifi, it made us consume thousands of random facts, names, dates and places we won’t ever need, it helped us to make a fierce impression on a first date, and served as a holy grail of all of our high school Powerpoint presentations.
Still today, it’s our go-to source for learning stuff we don’t even bother to double-check, and it’s the place you stumble across a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the life of your random-ass neighbor.
But something as big and influential as our beloved digital encyclopedia has to have something so much more going on we don’t see. Luckily, thanks to the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ Instagram page, we now are able to dive deep beneath that iceberg and see all the weird and wonderful things published on there. “Wikipedia is Weird!” states the page’s slogan, but trust me, it gets way weirder than that. Get your snorkels ready, we’re about to dive deep!
#1 And They Were Roommates
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#2 Planned Procrastination— When The Only Time You Can Find Motivation For A Task Is When You’re Under A Tight Deadline. student Syndrome Has Similarities To Parkinson’s Law, The Old Adage That The Work Expands To Fill The Time Allotted (Save It Til The Last Minute And The Job Will Only Take A Minute)
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#3 Obsessed With The Complexity Of The Chart On The Third Slide
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#4 In Protest, A Guy Made A 10 Hour Film Of Paint Drying Just To Force The Film Classification Committee To Watch It
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#5 Filling My Exam Answers With Swag
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#6 Going Out With A Bit
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#7 In 2003, A High Schooler Named Mike Rowe Had His Website Cease-And-Desisted By Microsoft. Eventually, After Media Attention, The Tech Giant Gave Him A Settlement Including A Trip To Microsoft Tech Fest And An Xbox
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#8 Dudes Rock
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#9 Kafka
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#10 Are You Sexy? In Your Prime? Single? This Is For You!!!
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#11 Explained By Multiple Theories— Alcohol, Increased Familiarity (Mere Exposure Effect), And Having Fewer And Fewer Options (Commodity Effect)
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#12 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#14 Your Life Is A TV Show
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#15 Rip Pluto 1930-2006
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#16 Following A Win In 1985, Japanese Baseball Fans Took Part In A Tradition: Player Lookalikes Jumping Into A Canal. But No One In The Crowd Looked Like A White Player, So Fans Threw A Colonel Sanders Statue Into The Canal. This Caused The Fabled Curse Of The Colonel Which Is Said To Have Brought About An 18 Year Losing Streak!!
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#17 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#18 Just Like Crabs In A Bucket Block The Escape Attempts Of Other Crabs, People In A Group May Attempt To Sabotage The The Most Talented Group Member Out Of Envy And Spite.
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#19 Just Gals Being Pals
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#20 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#21 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#22 This Is The Deepest Stuff I’ve Heard In A While
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#23 The Week-Long Traffic Jam In China Which LED To Locals Charging Stranded Drivers Astronomical Prices For Water And Food
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#24 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#25 Very Important Chart!!!in The Streets, In The Sheets, Etc.
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#26 Relates To The Concept Of Automaticity: The Ability To Do Things Without Occupying The Mind With Low-Level Details
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#27 Hm
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#28 The Dude Abides
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#29 Back When I Was A Kid We Killed Waaaay More Bugs With Our Cars
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#30 April Fools Lore
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#31 Mans Done Nothing, Free My Boys
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#32 When A Thing/Concept/Word You Just Learned About Suddenly Seems To Crop Up Everywhere
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#33 Easter Roundup
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#34 Former National Geographic Photographer Charles O'rear Took The Photo On Film While On His Way To Visit His Girlfriend, Later Selling It As A Stock Photo Titled "Bucholic Green Hills" In 1996. the Image’s Calming, Cloud-Filled Sky Matches The Bliss Which Can Be Induced By Recess Mood, A Magnesium And Adaptogen Infused Sparkling Water From @takearecess. Rumor Has It That The Drink Can Be Found Sunbathing On Bliss's Green Hills (But You Should Note That This Detail Hasn’t Quiiite Made It To Wikipedia)!!! #ad
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#35 Models Of The Body Which Show Body Parts Proportional To Size Of Their Region In The Brain. Larger Body Parts Mean There’s More More Cortical Space Devoted To That Body Part’s Movement (For The Motor Map) Or Sensation (For The Sensory Map). They Look Like Nightmarish Little Gnomes!!!
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#36 Roundup
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#37 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#38 Weird-Wikipedia-Articles
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#40 Thinking About The Oldest Cat Ever Recorded Who Had The Absolute Best, Booziest Life ??
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#45 When Incompetent People Can’t Understand Their Relative Incompetence
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#48 Do Not Knit Your So A Sweater Without Making Them Sign A “Pre-Knitual Agreement!” ‼️
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#49 Love The Guy Who Said “Some Men Play Golf, I Dig Tunnels”
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#50 This Is A Good One
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#51 A Neural Disorder Which Causes People To Believe That Everyone They Know And See Is The Same Person Wearing Disguises
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#52 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meat!
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#53 This Could Be Us
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#54 Anti-Surveillance Makeup Inspired By The Camouflage Ww1 Ships Used To Distort Range, Speed, And Heading. Second Photo From Cvdazzle.com. Model: Bre Bitz; Hair: Pia Vivas; Makeup: Giana Deyoung; Assistant Creative Direction: Tiam Taheri
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#55 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#56 Wholesome
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#57 Can’t Stop Thinking About The Pet Food CEO Rumored To Have Eaten Cans Of Dog Food At Shareholders’ Meetings
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#58 I Am Once Again Thinking About The Penguin Who Fell In Love With A Cardboard Cutout Of An Anime Character And Became So Obsessed That He Needed To Be Separated From The Character In Order To Eat
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#59 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#60 It Has A Name!
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#61 In America We Actually Call ≡ The ‘Freedomburger Menu’
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#62 The Science Behind This Is Shoddy At Best, But It Is Pretty Notable That A Number Of Correctional Facilities (Not To Mention Kendall Jenner’s Living Room Wall) Have Been Painted This Color.
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#63 Roundup
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#64 Weird-Wikipedia-Articles
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#69 The Smell Of Rain Has A Name, And It’s Caused By A Substance In The Dirt Named Geosmin Which Is Released When Raindrops Hit The Ground
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#70 The German Man Who Got An Absurd Amount Of Hospitality And Media Attention When He Got Off Of A Flight In A Small Town In Maine And Thought He Was In San Francisco!!! there’s A Lot To Scroll Through (10 Slides) But It’s Such A Good Story!
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#71 Lenin Was Bald, Stalin Was Hairy; Krushchev Was Bald, Brezhnev Was Hairy; Gorbachev Was Bald, Yeltsin Was Hairy - And Putin Is Practically Bald, So Medvedev Had To Win
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#72 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#73 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#74 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#75 Just Thinking About It
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#76 Good Fun Fact To Tell People On Car Rides
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#77 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#79 Rigged, I Knew Josh Would Win
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#80 Technically Just As Correct As North-Up. At Least One Study Suggests That The Prevailing North-Up Convention Has Influenced People To Think Of North As “Good” And South As “Bad.”
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#81 When You You Just Can’t Stand An Employee But You’d Feel Bad Firing Them And You Don’t Want To Do All The Paperwork That A Termination Would Ensue... You Promote! And A Company Ends Up With People Like Michael Scott (Great Salesman, Terrible Boss).the Dilbert Principle Started As A Satirical Theory But The Cartoonist Expanded It Into A Bona Fide Business Book In 1996. The Principle Remains Somewhat Speculative And A Lot Of Its Support Relies On Correlational Data, But It’s Pretty Persuasive And Might Explain Why So Many Managers Are Bad!!!anyway, This Makes Me Want To Pick Up The Unread Copy Of “Bs Jobs” By David Graeber I Have Sitting In My Shelf (Tsundoku!!!!!)in Case You Were Wondering, Dilbert Creator Scott Adam Is Still *very Much* Around, And On Top Of Cartooning, He’s A Trained Hypnotist, Has An Mba, Is A Blogger And Podcaster, And Has A Slew Of Non-Dilbert Publications On The Topics Of Business And Religion (His Book God Debris Lays Out A Theory Of Pandeism Which States That The Universe Began When God Blew Himself Up To See What Would Happen). His Short-Lived Dilbert TV Series Won Him An Emmy, And He Is The Creator Of A Failed Microwave Burrito Company Called “Dilberito.” While The Dilbert Cartoon May Be His Defining Legacy, He’s Also Notorious For Making Outlandish (And Sometimes Very Harmful!!!) Claims On The Internet— Like Peddling “Anti-White Bias” And 2020 Electoral Fraud. Maybe Someone Should Promote Him To Manager So He Stops Making Wacky Political Takes!!!
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#82 Send This To Someone With Nice 5318008
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#83 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#84 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#85 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#86 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#87 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#88 Where Is “Any” Key?!!!
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#89 Your Honor, It Wasn’t Me!!!
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#90 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#91 Stay Noided
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#92 Love The Part About Local Legend Mike Who Won A Competition Nine Years In A Row Due To His Ability To Produce Collosal Amounts Of Saliva (He Reports That He Requires Two Suction Cups At The Dentist). Also Love The Editor Who Put In The Bizarre Pictures Of Saltine Challengers In An Office Setting.... Makes You Wonder If They’re All Just Killing Time At Work
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#93 Roundup
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#94 Roundup
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#95 Wikipedia-Is-Weird
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#96 Icon!! This Is One Of The World’s Many Unsolved Mysteries!! I Like To Imagine The Mad Pooper To Be A Fit, Middle Aged Mom Who’s Crying Laughing While Pulling Down Her Lululemons To Take A Dump In This Random Family’s Lawn For The Fourth Time That Month, Willing To Do Truly Anything To Escape The Monotony Of Her Suburban Life.
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#97 Tfw The Boys Are Back In Town
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