[ This is a list I was compiling on another forum from numerous sources and user submissions. I'll add links to this post as you submit them. ]
If you're bored and feel like going on a Wikipedia adventure, here are the strangest, weirdest or just most interesting articles the place has to offer, hand-picked by individual users.
Note that Wikipedia generally doesn't censor its articles, so some of them may contain NSFW images.
Baghdad Battery | An ancient battery. Baigong Pipes | Pipe-like formations whose origins are disputed. Behavior-altering parasites and parasitoids | Mind-control insect zombies. Belgian UFO wave | A series of triangular UFO sightings over Belgium. Blepharoplasty | Eyelid surgery. Bloop | A once unidentified underwater sound recorded by the NOAA. Bog body | The corpses of ancient peoples found in bogs, highly preserved because of the unique environment of bogland. Contains images you might find disturbing. See also: List of bog bodies. Book of Kells | A famous Celtic rendering of the four Gospels. Brain in a vat | Philosophical musings about reality. Brazen bull | An execution device in which a victim is cooked alive. Breaking wheel | A torture/execution device for smashing limbs. Bunny Man | Urban legend about a ghost living under a bridge.
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Capgras delusion | When you believe your loved one has been replaced by an imposter. Carl Tanzler | Classic boy meets girl fairytale. Cecil Hotel | A Los Angeles hotel with an unusual history and past guest list. Chandre Oram | Man with tail. Kinda. Charles Bonnet syndrome | Vision-impaired people having visual hallucinations. Charles Domery | A Polish soldier who couldn't stop eating. Charles Ingram | A British man who cheated his way to winning the top prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Chijon family | A South Korean cannibal gang. Children kept in captivity | Self-explanatory. Cock and ball torture | Sexual practice involving the abuse of male genitals. Contains... images. Collective unconscious | Carl Jung's theory about an inherited unconscious. Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case | Teenagers indulging in a bit of recreational torture/murder. Cargo cult | A kind of religion which casts the veracity of all others into serious doubt. Cleveland Torso Murderer | An unidentified serial killer. Conservapedia | Until I was assured this was real I thought it was a Stephen Colbert-style parody. The Cure for Insomnia | A 3 and a half day long movie featuring poetry, porn and heavy metal.
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David Parker Ray | Serial killer/torturer with a $100,000 torture chamber. David Reimer | A young boy with a ruined penis is reassigned as a girl, but doesn't quite take to it. Death by sawing | Self-explanatory, really. Death of Sharon Lopatka | A woman goes online to invite a man to murder her. Dehomag | IBM's involvement in the boosted efficiency of the Final Solution. Deep-sea gigantism | The deeper you go the bigger they get. Delphine LaLaurie | A high society cunt who tortured black slaves. Dnepropetrovsk maniacs | Teenage serial killing duo responsible for the "3 Guys 1 Hammer" video. Donohue syndrome | A birth defect also known as Leprechaunism. Dream argument | Philosophical musings about what can be considered reality. Dyatlov Pass incident | Nine ski hikers die.
Feral child | A child who grows up in isolation, away from human contact. Fetal abduction | The phenomenon of the removal and abduction of unborn children. Fetus in fetu | Babies born "pregnant" with foetus-like growths. Includes an image you might find upsetting. Forbidden Plateau | A haunted hill. Freddie Scappaticci | A British spy known as "Stakeknife" who infiltrated the IRA. Fritz Haarmann | German serial killer who operated before WWII. Fritzl case | Josef Fritzl keeps his daughter and their offspring prisoner for decades.
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Giant's Causeway | Hexagonal rocks in Northern Ireland which are allegedly interesting. Genu valgum | Also known as "knock-knee", a condition of the legs. Gloria Ramirez | A woman dubbed "the toxic lady" because of her blood's effects on her doctors/nurses. Gravity hill | A hill which appears to defy the laws of nature, but doesn't. Guinea Pig (film series) | Japanese horror movie series, one of which was thought to be real by Charlie Sheen.
Infibulation | The act of sewing labia and foreskins shut. Contains photos of the end result. Iron maiden (torture device) | An upright coffin lined with spikes. Issei Sagawa | Japanese cannibal who escaped a lengthy prison sentence and is now a minor celebrity. Information Awareness Office | Post-9/11 Big Brother surveillance.
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James Dallas Egbert III | A suicidal teenager. Jerusalem syndrome | A mental disorder which affects an unsettlingly large numbers of tourists in Jerusalem. Jonestown | Another suicidal religious cult. John and Lorena Bobbitt | How to cure a rapist. John Murray Spear | A spiritualist who wanted to create an electrified Messiah. Judas cradle | Torture device on which victims' anuses and vaginas were repeatedly impaled.
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Kaoru Kobayashi | A Japanese sex offender who kidnapped, raped and murdered 7-year-old Kaede Ariyama. Kaspar Hauser | A kid who claimed to have grown up in a cell. Kensington Runestone | Possible evidence that Scandinavians reached America in the 14th century. Kobe child murders | A 14-year-old murders two fellow children in Japan. Kuru | A disease which makes you laugh until you die.
Mad Gasser of Mattoon | A series of gas attacks or a case of mass hysteria? Mamoru Takuma | A Japanese mass murderer responsible for the Osaka school massacre. Man-eating tree | Self-explanatory. Marvin Heemeyer | Pissed off businessman in a modified bulldozer. Mary Tofts | Woman gives birth to rabbits? Dr. House would never have fallen for this shit! Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion | A now legendary hacker hijacking of a television broadcast. McGurk effect | An interaction between hearing and vision and how one can override/combine with the other. Mellified man | Turn yourself into medicine! Michael Larson | This man memorized the pseudo-random patterns of a game show prize board. Michael Malloy | Michael "Durable Mike" Malloy: the [almost] indestructible Irishman. Micropenis | A tiny little penis. The article contains three photographs showing the phenomenon. Mike the Headless Chicken | Colonel Sanders' worst nightmare. The article shows a photograph of a living, headless chicken. Monkeys in Space | Self-explanatory. Montauk Project | The US government dabbles with time travel.
Omayra Sánchez | A girl trapped after a natural disaster is unable to be saved. Operation Minstead | One of the worst rapists to ever walk the earth. Operation Paperclip | Nazi scientists have their uses, apparently. Out-of-place artefact | Artefacts which turn up where they shouldn't. Oxana Malaya | A feral child who was raised by dogs.
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Paris syndrome | Japanese immigrants and tourists don't enjoy Paris as much as they think they will. Paul Bernardo | A Canadian serial killer and rapist. Penile subincision | A form of penis modification as fucked-up as it sounds. Contains a photo of a split cock. Penis panic (Koro) | A syndrome which causes people to fear that their genitalia is shrinking/disappearing. PlayStation Network outage | The Sony PlayStation network is shut down by hackers Pope Lick Monster | Half man, half goat and half sheep? The fat fucker! Pricasso | An artist who paints using his penis, scrotum and buttocks. Project ARTICHOKE | Mind control research. Project MKULTRA | Mind control research. Pykrete | A form of ice stronger than steel?
Saint Patrick's Battalion | Irish immigrants who switched sides during the Mexican/American war. Sailing stones | Some bizarre chess game played by nature. Salish Sea human foot discoveries | Human feet found on the beach. Sasebo slashing | An 11-year-old girl murders a 12-year-old girl with a Stanley knife. Sati | Outlawed Indian tradition of a widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. Scissor Sisters | Two Irish sisters who brutally hammered/knifed a man to death. Sedlec Ossuary | A church decorated with thousands of skeletons. Shakespeare authorship question | There was a second penman on the grassy knoll. Shankill Butchers | Sectarian mass murderers from Belfast. Slow Down (unidentified sound) | An underwater sound recording which has yet to be explained. Solway Firth Spaceman | A photograph showing a "spaceman" in the background. Starchild skull | A human skull with some unusual features. Stendhal syndrome | Extreme panic attack-like reactions to art/natural beauty. Strappado | Torture method designed to dislocate the shoulders.
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Tama (cat) | A cat who holds the position of Super Station Master at Kishi train station in Japan. Taman Shud Case | An unidentified dead guy. Tanganyika laughter epidemic | An outbreak of hysterical laughter. Tarrare | A French soldier with a bottomless gut. Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head | The head of a figurine found in Mexico which doesn't appear to belong there. Teratoma | Tumour with tissue or undeveloped organ components in it. Contains inoffensive images. Teresa of Ávila | A sainted nun who featured prominently in the Spanish renaissance. Thalidomide | The drug given to pregnant women which severely deformed their babies. Therac-25 | A really shit radiotherapy machine. Texas Slave Ranch | A ranch in Texas which... well, you get the idea. Toynbee tiles | Strange messages embedded in asphalt all around the Americas. Trepanning | Primitive, superstition-driven brain surgery. The Troubles | The Northern Irish conflict. Tsutomu Miyazaki | A serial killer/necrophile/cannibal who was a fan of the Guinea Pig movies. Tsutomu Yamaguchi | Bomb-proof Jap. Survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. Tuskegee syphilis experiment | Unsuspecting black people used as human guinea pigs in the U.S.
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Unit 731 | Infamous Japanese biochemical warfare experimentation camp from WWII.
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Virgin boy egg | A delicacy where eggs are boiled in prepubescent boys' urine, because Chinese medicine. Vish Kanya | Female assassins who made themselves immune to poison and then sexed their victims to death. Voynich manuscript | An ancient & mysterious handwritten manuscript.
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Waco siege | The BATF slaughters the Branch Davidians. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? | Graffiti referring to a body found inside a tree. Wunderwaffe | The German "wonder-weapons" program which began in WWII.
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Year and a day rule | A law which states that you aren't a murderer if your victim doesn't die for a year and a day.
When I'm somewhat bored and looking for something to do it might happen that I go to wikipedia and use the "random article" button. Unexpected and perhaps interesting stuff might show up.
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