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RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Draug - 06-22-2013
Woops sorry for that. But yeah reaaally weird.
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Paddy™ - 12-20-2013
Added Fetal abduction.
It's the kind of thing which might seem normal in the world of hamsters and cuckoos, but it's a tad weird when it's a human.
Also added:
Michael Larson
The man who won big on Press Your Luck by memorizing the pseudo-random patterns of the game board. Click here to watch a documentary about the story.
Charles Ingram
A British man who cheated his way to winning the top prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Click here to watch the subsequent documentary about the scam.
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Romulator - 12-20-2013
That one on Charles Ingram is great
I'll watch the other one later. Good job Paddy
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Macgyverthehero - 12-20-2013
I found this weird war that actually existed at some point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_war
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Romulator - 12-21-2013
This is the video for the Press Your Luck scandal
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Ashtoreth - 07-17-2014
Bumpiest bump ever.
Last night while talking with Paddy I told him about this occasion when I watched my dad killing a chicken by cutting off its head; the chicken wouldn't stay still and it managed to escape, and started running around headless for what seemed like an eternity (it was probably less than a minute though).
I was only 5 or 6 years old, and although I don't think I felt particularly shocked by it (more like completely bewildered), it's something I'll never be able to remove from my memory.
Anyway: then he asked me if I had ever heard of Mike the Headless Chicken... So I looked it up and, holy crap...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Froge - 07-17-2014
Indeed intriguing
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Chrysler - 09-23-2014
Thanks for that list, there are quite a few interesting articles in there I didn't know yet, e.g. the Somerton man mystery (Taman Shud Case).
Another unsolved, more recent case I stumbled upon recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Hotel_(Los_Angeles). The Wikipedia article does not contain much information but the case got quite some press coverage and there's the footage of a surveillance camera ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TjVBpyTeZM[/url]).
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Paddy™ - 10-30-2014
Added your suggestion Chrysler, and also added these:
Kobe child murders | More grisly kid-on-kid crime.
List of animals with fraudulent diplomas | This is one of my favourite Wikipedia articles.
Updated the URL/name of "Girl A" to "Sasebo Slashing".
RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia - Ashtoreth - 02-10-2015
Babies that are born "pregnant":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu
(One of the images in this article might be disturbing for some people)