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The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia
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RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia

Woops sorry for that. But yeah reaaally weird. Big Grin
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RE: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wikipedia

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.
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That one on Charles Ingram is great Big Grin I'll watch the other one later. Good job Paddy Big Grin

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I found this weird war that actually existed at some point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_war

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This is the video for the Press Your Luck scandal Smile

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12-21-2013, 05:20 AM
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Bumpiest bump ever. Blush

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

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Indeed intriguing

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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]).
09-23-2014, 04:08 PM
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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".

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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)

02-10-2015, 03:50 AM
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