Great Moments in Wikipedia

Linked from that article. The history of wiping your arse (literally.)

I won't link to it because the photos are probably just one wrong move shy of bestiality, but I came across the most glorious title for a Wikimedia Commons category: "Nude man shoeing a horse."

Following the chain up eventually brought me to Eadweard Muybridge, a nineteenth-century photographer who made his name using the then-new art of photography to perform motion studies. One of his claims to fame is proving horses do have all four feet off the ground◊ during mid-gallop.

edited 1st Jul '16 3:54:44 PM by Specialist290

From Balinese Hinduism:

"Balinese Hindus live on the island of Bali and practice Hinduism."

And I think people die if they are killed, too.

Don't talk to me or my son ever again (had to tinyurl it because apostrophes don't play nice in weblinks on this site)

edited 6th Sep '16 3:58:42 AM by Midna

A sourced list of comedians considered deadpan.

"Researchers experience difficulty in studying near human extinction directly, since humanity has never been destroyed before.[4]"

A.V. Club wrote that surprisingly non-whiny Eminem is a highlight.

Not Wikipedia, but Wiktionary: one of the examples for the word "stupid" is "Because it's a big stupid jellyfish!"

I just noticed that the List Of Sandwiches mentioned several dozen pages ago has three separate citations supporting the following claim:

A sandwich is a dish consisting of two or more slices of bread with one or more fillings between [1] [2] [3] .

Three. Separate. Citations. Why?

edited 7th Jan '17 2:19:49 AM by BrokenEye

But... You can make a sandwich with one slice of bread.

edited 7th Jan '17 2:45:15 PM by war877

But is that truly a sandwich? Or is it merely a pale and imperfect imitation of the form of the Ideal Sandwich?

edited 18th Jan '17 5:17:02 PM by Specialist290

When I saw this article linked on reddit, I first thought it was about how raising children can keep you happy.

"On July 22, 2014, Daniel Radcliffe announced AmeriCone Dream as his favorite post-coital food.[6]"

Yes, there's a citation.

edited 6th Feb '17 12:22:19 PM by NesClassic

It's gone now, but this was on the page for La La Land.

edited 16th Feb '17 8:36:47 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Shoutout to Japanese Wikipedia for having an article solely about Iyami's pose from Osomatsu-kun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_Hole_in_My_Bucket

The song describes a deadlock situation [there's a link to a page about "deadlock", which is apparently something in concurrent computing]: Henry has a leaky bucket, and Liza tells him to repair it. But to fix the leaky bucket, he needs straw. To cut the straw, he needs an axe. To sharpen the axe, he needs to wet the sharpening stone. To wet the stone, he needs water. However, when Henry asks how to get the water, Liza's answer is "in a bucket". It is implied that only the leaky bucket is available, which, if it could carry water, would need no repairing in the first place.

IIRC, deadlock in computing refers to a situation where two packets of data that need to use the same connection (but can't at the same time) both wait for the other to pass first, meaning neither of them ever get to their destination.

"Toast, being an inanimate object, lacks both the ability and the desire to right itself."

According to Wikipedia, the plot of Obake no Q-Taro is "In one house, this come one of obake."

This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Beetles_described_in_1758 It has 236 entries. None for the year before, only one for each of the following years. After some looking around on the articles I realised this was the publication date of Linnaeus's Tenth Edition of the Systema Naturae that set down the naming system used to this day.

Still, it's a bit misleading to say the were "described" in that year. Europeans had studied them before. Rather that year is when the system was set down and all these were given belated recognition.

edited 17th May '17 5:20:00 PM by Reymma

The sadly now-gone completely irrelevant parrot.

On today's daily dose of "aww"

"San Pedro prison or El penal de San Pedro (Saint Peter's Prison) is the largest prison in La Paz, Bolivia renowned for being a society within itself. [...] Elected leaders enforce the laws of the community, commonly through stabbing."

Wikipedia has a list of prison escapes using helicopters.

Say what you will about the criminals, that is a pimping way of escaping prison.

The fact that "worst movie ever" exists as a redirect to this article.