apparently in the US the "Christmas pickle" is believed to be a German tradition even though it was probably just invented in the 1890s by American department stores

For some reason Santa's sleigh makes an appearance in front of the locked cabinets of cheese in this photo from the "cheddar cheese" article

from the "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" article

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

love the unexplained duck

stumbled on a bunch of extremely niche professions that only have articles in Dutch Wikipedia (autotranslated in my browser)

from the article about the Brazilian alcoholic drink "Axé" on Portuguese Wikipedia ("The cat and dog wait for their owner at the bathroom door while he feels unwell after ingesting Axé.")

amazing photo on spanish wikipedia's chinchilla article

here are some surprisingly complicated charts in case anyone is interested

from the Lindsey Vonn article

the first pic in the "Animals with paper party hats" category on Wikimedia Commons could make me cry

as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons

cannot believe the title of this wikipedia article is actually wenis

12 years ago today the world lost a legend

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

starting a map thread

"abandoned teddy bears" category on wikimedia commons

There's a software engineer in Hong Kong who makes incredibly detailed scientific diagrams for wikipedia, like this clickable metro-style map of metabolic pathways!!!

in Namibia

woah

Flannery O'Connor

there is a “video games in north korea” article