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Interesting Articles At Wikipedia

I wrote this post on August 5, 2006 but somehow it never got published and I didn’t notice it among the drafts on my blog.

You have to see this! A list of some of the most interesting articles on Wikipedia.

There’s something for everyone in those three pages.

Things I found interesting there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_curse_words – Just what the link says. You might find words from your favourite novel or TV series or movie here. I found two The Wheel of Time expressions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink – Collective thinking and stuff like that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster – All about FSM and Pastafarianism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome – When a person’s hand seems to act on its own after some specific brain treatment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 – Someone tried to name their kid ‘Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116′

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerspace – Refers to the place where cartoon and video game characters instantly get their impossibly large items from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut – Read and find out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion – Person thinks a friend or relative has been replaced by another identical person

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor – Supposedly a time traveller from the future who posted on message boards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases – An interesting list of biases exhibited by people

There’s lots more. Go see them if you have the time. I demand that you see atleast one.