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  1. divott

    divott Giant Squid

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    divott, Dec 3, 2009
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  2. steve wright

    steve wright Super Moderator

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    Divott - can you PM me a summary please

    Steve
     
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  3. ermano

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    hahaha this is such a time waster.

    perfect! But really there are some excellent reads in there. Mind blowing even;)
     
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  4. Peredhil

    Peredhil Giant Squid

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    i'm halfway through them ;D

    neat find.
     
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  5. mikejrice

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    I liked the one about the H-bomb the government lost and is yet to recover, the one about the US's secret plans to invade Canada and use it as a forum to fight a war, and the one about the years with no summer.
     
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  6. inwall75

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    The top 50 Wikipedia articles by interestingness

    1. Marree Man
    2. War Plan Red
    3. Vela Incident
    4. Tybee Bomb
    5. United States Numbered Highways
    6. Wow! Signal
    7. Tube Bar Prank Calls
    8. Kola Superdeep Borehole
    9. Back to the Future Timeline
    10. Year Without a Summer
    11. K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
    12. Sokal Affair
    13. Blue Peacock
    14. Veerappan
    15. Person From Porlock
    16. Eternal Flame
    17. U.S. Color-Coded War Plans
    18. The Wedge (Border)
    19. Mohave Phone Booth
    20. Stanislav Petrov
    21. Valery Sablin
    22. The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
    23. Special Atomic Demolition Munition
    24. Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
    25. Prometheus (tree)
    26. Zone of Alienation
    27. Fan Death
    28. Outlawries Bill
    29. Raymond Robinson (Green Man)
    30. Scoville Scale
    31. Kardashev Scale
    32. Larry Walters
    33. Joshua A. Norton
    34. Fabergé egg
    35. Issei Sagawa
    36. Joseph Jagger
    37. Traumatic Insemination
    38. James Joseph Dresnok
    39. Ivy League Nude Posture Photos
    40. Jim Corbett (Hunter)
    41. Just-World Phenomenon
    42. Nicholas Bourbaki
    43. Humanzee
    44. Old Man of the Lake
    45. Alexamenos Graffito
    46. Fairy Chess Piece
    47. Michael Fagan Incident
    48. ETAOIN SHRDLU
    49. Palomares Hydrogen Bomb Incident
    50. As Slow as Possible

    *Copybot is not responsible for the hours and hours that disappeared while you were exploring this list. But she is responsible for the fascinated responses you get at the water cooler tomorrow.

    Edit: If you enjoyed this list, I’ve since posted 50 more of Wikipedia’s most interesting articles. The second list is less war-focused than this one.
     
    inwall75, Dec 4, 2009
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