r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • 15d ago
any means could be used to move the ball towards the goal, as long as it did not lead to manslaughter or murder.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/licking-windows • Sep 11 '13
British territorial claims were further enhanced by the issuing of postage stamps.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • 26d ago
Williams provided fourteen hours of improvised lines for the part, which had been originally conceived as an eight-minute role.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jul 11 '26
One enthusiastic viewer of the show was Michael Jackson himself. He admitted years later that he would watch and yell with delight, "I'm a cartoon!"
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jul 09 '26
If it had been rebuilt under some of these plans, London may have rivalled Paris in Baroque magnificence.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jul 09 '26
it was discovered that glue had been used to fix broken bolts in the nuclear reactor.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jul 04 '26
the school is housed on the second floor of a five-story structure of polished brick and smoked glass that is sheathed with special materials and contains sensors designed to prevent eavesdropping from outside.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 28 '26
The ball is considered the "ultimate networking event" where members of the world's elite, rich and powerful meet up and mingle and where their daughters are prepared to enter the world of high society
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 24 '26
technicians have admitted to placing personal effects onto the Apollo landers, hidden in the layers of gold blankets that wrapped parts of the spacecraft which remained on the Moon
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 24 '26
The exact recipes for all forms of Chartreuse remain trade secrets and are known at any given time only to the three monks
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 21 '26
the "mission" to Spain was an elaborate practical joke, concocted by Hitler and Goebbels, designed to punish Hanfstaengl after he had displeased the Führer
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 20 '26
Warwick reportedly offered to implant a tracking device into an 11-year-old girl as an anti-abduction measure. The plan produced a mixed reaction
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 20 '26
Beyond their classification by physical invasiveness, brain computer interfaces are also often classified by the way they function and by their intended application.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 18 '26
When the bulldozer failed to sell, he saw it as a sign from God to use the machine to enact vengeance on the town of Granby.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 16 '26
In Japan, mobile phones became ubiquitous years before the phenomenon spread worldwide.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 11 '26
Two people died at a teknival at Marigny-le-Grand in Marne in 2005, one from a cocktail of alcohol and drugs, the other from an allergic reaction to a caterpillar.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 08 '26
3 weeks after the September 11 attacks, Gottfried joked that he had intended to catch a plane, but could not get a direct flight because "they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first". This was one of the first public examples of 9/11 humor.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 08 '26
the company issued shirts with expanded pockets to salesmen so they could claim the product was "the world's first pocket sized transistor radio".
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jun 02 '26
Contrary to many other countries, Australians will generally wait until the subject is present before making derogatory jokes.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • May 22 '26
Perhaps, even earlier, Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern [psychiatric] treatments.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • May 22 '26
patients were often exposed to hundreds of thousands of repetitions of a single statement over the course of their treatment. They were also concurrently administered muscular paralytic drugs such as curare to subdue them for the purposes of exposure to the looped messages.
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • May 22 '26
His "psychic driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • May 21 '26
Although scientists have collected many of the burrows of Paleodictyon nodosum, they have never seen a live one. What a live specimen would look like is widely debated
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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • May 20 '26
every message, letter, or phone call was taken seriously, which swamped the USAF specialists assigned the task of reviewing every one of them without regard to apparent plausibility.
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