My Big Fat Wikipedia Hole

Over the last several years I’ve maintained a habit of bookmarking most of the interesting wikipedia articles I read, with my criteria being that I must experience a tingling sense of excitement of discovery when reading it.

Some of the inclusions are “mainstream” summaries of well known things, others are extremely niche events. Some felt quiet and hidden, and reading them made me feel like I’d found a tiny gem that had been long forgotten. Still others appear pretty boring, but gained entry because they hit me with an unexpectedly shocking line or two midway through. Some of them are about common topics I thought I was familiar with, but contained really interesting information about stuff like origin or controversies.

Here’s all of them! I may continue to update this list periodically as I collect more.

• 1918 flu pandemic

• Active Denial System

• Adolescent cliques

• Adrian Schoolcraft

• Affair of the Diamond Necklace

• African American–Jewish relations

• Agnotology

• Air New Zealand Flight 901

• Albert Stevens

• Alexis St. Martin

• Alford plea

• Alix of France

• Anasyrma

• Animal suicide

• Ant mill

• Anti-Japaneseism

• Antipope

• Anula of Anuradhapura

• Apache (dance)

• Apophatic theology

• Apophenia

• Archaeological forgery

• Archibald Armstrong

• Asteroid impact avoidance

• Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

• Atomic gardening

• AutoAdmit

• Aversion to happiness

• Azolla event

• Baby hatch

• Backmasking

• Baryon asymmetry

• Bath School disaster

• Bedtime Procrastination

• Betteridge's law of headlines

• Big lie

• Billy (slave)

• Bird strike

• Black Death Jewish persecutions

• Black Hole of Calcutta

• Bling Ring

• Blonde versus brunette rivalry

• Bull leaping

• Burke and Hare murders

• Burned house horizon

• Can Masdeu

• Caning of Charles Sumner

• Carnac stones

• Caroline Herschel

• Catal Hüyük 10 - Çatalhöyük

• Category:Tunnel disasters

• Category:Unidentified serial killers

• Chaplin family

• Charles Vance Millar

• Cicisbeo

• Circassian beauties

• Cloudburst

• Clovis I

• Coatlicue

• Coffin birth

• Colombia Supercontinent

• Colors of noise

• Comics Code Authority

• Common cuckoo

• Comprachicos

• Confronted animals

• Congo Free State

• Cosmic pluralism

• Court dwarf

• Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

• Crime drop

• Crossed letter

• Cryptic pregnancy

• Cult of Reason

• Cultural revolution

• Culture-bound syndrome

• Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn

• Cyclopia

• D. B. Cooper

• Dawn of the Black Hearts

• Dayuan

• Dead man's switch

• Death of Elisa Lam

• Degenerate art

• Demon core

• Depression glass

• Diamond Interchange

• Dilukai

• Directed energy weapons

• Diving horse

• Dreadnought hoax

• Dyatlov Pass incident

• Economic bubble

• Edward De Lacy Evans

• Effect of spaceflight on the human body

• Egg of Columbus

• Eight-circuit model of consciousness

• Empress Dowager Hu (Northern Wei)

• Empress Wu Zeitan

• End of greatness

• Energy dome

• Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum

• Estevanico

• Eva Carrière

• Fairy fort

• Fatal familial insomnia

• Fearsome critters

• Feather tights

• Ferret-legging

• Figging

• Filipino name

• Fitch's paradox of knowability

• Five Punishments

• Flood geology

• Folk memory

• Folly

• Form constant

• Formal science

• Four-square cipher

• Fox tossing

• Franklin's lost expedition

• Freelandia

• Fuck-me shoes

• Gamma-ray burst

• Gao Qi

• Garden hermit

• Gay panic defense

• Gender differences in social network service use

• Georgia Guidestones

• Ghost Dance

• Giant Void

• Gingering

• Goiânia accident

• Gordon Tullock

• Great Disappointment

• Great Oxygenation Even

• Great Stink

• Great Stork Derby

• Great Vowel Shift

• Giant Sloths

• Guiding Light

• Gävle goat

• Göbekli Tepe

• H. H. Holmes

• HIV/AIDS denialism

• Haast's eagle

• Halifax Explosion

• Helen Duncan fake ectoplasm - Ectoplasm (paranormal)

• Henry Ford

• Herero and Namaqua genocide

• Hostile architecture

• Humanzee

• I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator

• Idiosyncrasy credit

• Igaluk

• Inanna

• Indra's net

• Inoculation

• Insular dwarfism

• Irrumatio

• Island Gigantism

• Jarmo

• Jauhar

• Jeffrey Hudson

• John Balcerzak

• John Saul (prostitute)

• John, King of England

• Johnny and Luther Htoo

• Joik

• Kaali crater

• Katabatic wind

• Ken McElroy

• Kim Philby

• Kowloon Walled City

• Kármán vortex street

• Lady's companion

• Lake Nyos disaster

• Language deprivation experiments

• Late Bronze Age collapse

• Late Heavy Bombardment

• Launch loop

• Le Pétomane

• Leonora Dori

• Lightning - positive and negative

• List of chairs

• List of cities by population density

• List of colossal sculpture in situ

• List of common misconceptions

• List of fatal bear attacks in North America

• List of founders of religious traditions

• List of helicopter prison escapes

• List of highest grossing Indian films

• List of largest houses in the United States

• List of massacres in the United States

• List of natural disasters by death toll

• List of nightclub fires

• List of oldest buildings

• List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970

• List of people with the most children

• List of selfie-related injuries and deaths

• List of unidentified murder victims in the United States

• List of unusual deaths

• List of women executed in the United States since 1976

• List of women who led a revolt or rebellion

• List of youngest birth mothers

• Lists of unsolved problems

• Lithopedion

• Low-background steel

• Magdalena Solís

• Malia pendant

• Malik Kafur

• Manicouagan crater

• Mary McElroy (kidnapping victim)

• Mass hysteria

• Master of Animals

• McMartin preschool trial

• Mercy Brown vampire incident

• Microburst

• Mill Ends Park

• Mirror life

• Mithridate

• Mohenjo-daro

• Monkey selfie copyright dispute

• Moonlight tower

• Moral panic

• Morbid jealousy

• More popular than Jesus

• Mosuo

• Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

• Mudita

• Mummy brown

• Murder of Gregory Glenn Biggs

• Mutiny on the Bounty

• Ned Kelly

• Neurasthenia

• New Thought

• Niihau incident

• Nitpicking

• Norman conquest of England

• Nuliajuk

• Oak Island

• Objective idealism

• Occitan language

• Oklahoma City sonic boom tests

• Olmec colossal heads

• Operation Midnight Climax

• Operation Northwoods

• Öpir

• Orkney

• Paraceratherium

• Paraquat murders

• Pataphysics

• Pearling (body modification)

• Pedestrianism

• Penile subincision

• Perverse incentive

• Peshtigo Fire

• Phaistos Disc

• Phantom island

• Picts

• Pixel-art scaling algorithms

• Pole of inaccessibility

• Pope Benedict IX

• Post-coital tristesse

• Privilège du blanc

• Proslavery

• Pseudoscope

• Pseudoskepticism

• Psychopomp

• Racial hoax

• Rai stones

• Rain City Superhero Movement

• Real-life superhero

• Republic of Molossia

• Richard I of England

• Right- and left-hand traffic

• Ring species

• Rogue wave

• Rosenhan experiment

• Rotating locomotion in living systems

• Rural purge

• Russian apartment bombings

• Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá

• Sambia people

• Sanitation in ancient Rome

• Sarah Baartman

• Scintillating scotoma

• Scold's bridle

• Senicide

• Sensory illusions in aviation

• Sexual coercion among animals

• Sexual conflict

• Sexual slavery

• Sheela na gig

• Shock therapy (economics)

• Shotgun house

• Shutdown law

• Sickness behavior

• Small penis rule

• Sociosexual orientation

• Sokushinbutsu

• Space adaptation syndrome

• Spite house

• St Scholastica Day riot

• Stampede

• Steatopygia

• Stigmata

• Stuxnet

• Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome

• Sultanate of Women

• Sweater curse

• Tarrare

• Tell es-Sultan

• Terra Australis

• Terraforming of Venus

• The Hedley Kow

• The Miracle of 1511

• The Satanic Verses controversy

• The Talented Tenth

• Tidal river

• Timeline of the far future

• Tithonus

• Toe cleavage

• Tornado myths

• Tower of Wooden Pallets

• Toynbee tiles

• Tragic mulatto

• Tree of life

• Tsutomu Yamaguchi

• Tunguska event

• Turnspit dog

• Turtle ship

• Umarell

• Uncombable hair syndrome

• United States war crimes

• University of Texas tower shooting

• Urumi

• Uvula piercing

• Vaccine hesitancy - history

• Valeska Gert

• Victorian dress reform

• Waist chop

• Water cure (torture)

• Western European marriage pattern

• White elephant

• White slave propaganda

• Wikipedia:Unusual articles

• Witold Pilecki

• Work spouse

• World Sauna Championships

• Wright brothers patent war

• Wrongful life

• XYY syndrome

• Yunnan sudden death syndrome

• Zamor