impossible to get sick of the "DOG-LOVING DUCK" article in life magazine (1949)

what's going on with indiana

they installed these in the 1980s because women were wasting so much water flushing the toilets to prevent other people in the restroom from hearing when they were peeing

all timer footnote in "mayor of boston"

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

they also led to perhaps the best written paragraph on all of Wikipedia

spotted on Bangla Wikipedia

while i'm briefly out of the depths i'll also recommend this article! it's not very obscure (i hope), and still worth reading even if you know the gistl. the riveting aftermath, the unbelievably gracious quotes she gave late in life (she died earlier this year)... i think about it all the time!

anyone mind if i take a break from the depths to recommend a well known figure from american history with an insane life and rollicking good wikipedia full of incredible details you almost certainly didn't remember. important to know him i think! just read the whole thing i can't screenshot it all

there's an amazing toolbar with an article's stats/history you can turn on in settings but no one ever cares when i recommend it!!! so i explained my random thoughts/reactions in case it helps show how interesting and fun and useful it is

RIP Mister Rogers you would love clicking on the user pages of anonymous wikipedians to admire how quietly and diligently they advance human knowledge!!!! here's a random user i clicked (username Vacant0) who has made unbelievable improvements to pages on serbian politics the past two years or so

browsed madison pages a bit and realized a retired professor from the university of wisconsin has uploaded and organized so many local photos it's almost unfathomable. ordinary hero! makes life better to remember how many people like this exist! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jd...

if anyone in madison, wisconsin is in the mood for a side quest you should take photos of the area where butter once melted into a river and flowed through the city!!!! and add it to the page captioned "the site of the disaster" or something like that!!!!

article from japanese wikipedia (autotranslated)

wikipedia has no freely licensed photos of the "asian baby girl" aesthetic!!! are there any ABGs out there who can upload a selfie to wikimedia commons

i like the pic in the article about street dogs in moscow

there's an unexpectedly heartwarming photo in the "wart" article, and if you click the photo you can read the photographer's even more heartwarming description of the proposal! ("will you marry me warts and all?")

love the random man standing in the "flame arrester" article

bro I'm tryna get glucked auf

two guys named Lorentz and Lorenz came up with an equation and it was corrected by Ericson and her husband Ericson

ok who says that last one

shoutout to the guy who uploaded this photo with a free license 20 years ago

great details in this article about a Scottish packaged pastry

mildly interesting detail in the "i knew you were trouble" page that ed sheeran apparently taught taylor swift what dubstep is

forbidden shark

from japanese wikipedia (autotranslated to english)

hilarious assortment here

annoying post bc wikipedia literally issues a disclaimer "WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY"& has detailed articles on its own limitations & early years when, like major encyclopedias, it didn't clearly cite its sources. such accountability (not random fb posts) is what inspires trust!!!!!

it's a bit surreal to watch the "list of last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes" slowly turn gray as they all die

man wikipedia really has it all huh

via "jester"

"list of the longest English words with one syllable"

from "speak of the devil"