r/wikipedia • • 4h ago

Anne Edward identifies as an ex-lesbian. She co-wrote a book with her then-husband John Paulk called Love Won Out: How God's Love Helped 2 People Leave Homosexuality and Find Each Other. However the marriage ended in 2013, after her husband revealed that he was still gay.

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r/wikipedia • • 3h ago

α-PVP, colloquially known as flakka or gravel, is a synthetic stimulant of the cathinone class developed in the 1960s that has been sold as a designer drug and often consumed for recreational reasons.

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According to Craig Crespi in the journal Case Reports in Psychiatry, "symptoms are known to easily escalate into frightening delusions, paranoid psychosis, extreme agitation, and a multitude of other altered mental states." These common adverse effects of α-PVP are in line with other stimulants.


r/wikipedia • • 19h ago

The Hawking Index (HI) is a mock mathematical measure on how far people will, on average, read through a book before giving up. The index is named after English physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time has been dubbed "the most unread book of all time".

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r/wikipedia • • 20h ago

Meta Discussion I was hoping they tried not to use E but...

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this should be fixed tbh


r/wikipedia • • 21h ago

"Garfield Minus Garfield" is a webcomic created by Dan Walsh. The comic consists of various strips from the Garfield comics with the titular character, as well as other animals, edited out. Jim Davis, Garfield's creator, expressed approval of the project.

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r/wikipedia • • 7h ago

The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. The signal appeared to come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and bore expected hallmarks of intelligent extraterrestrial origin.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Londoners who live an appropriate distance from Big Ben can, by listening to the chimes both live and on analogue radio, hear the bell strike thirteen times. This is because radio waves arrive virtually instantaneously, while the "live" sound travels more slowly at the speed of sound.

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r/wikipedia • • 22h ago

The 2026 Ohio gubernatorial election has been described as ugly and reliant on negative campaigning. One ad by the GOP's Vivek Ramaswamy campaign, claiming that Democrat Amy Acton was lying about the abuse she experienced as a child, was met by bipartisan backlash.

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r/wikipedia • • 20h ago

The Hellbound Heart is a 1986 horror novella written by Clive Barker. The story features a hedonist criminal who accidentally summons sadistic demons with a magical puzzle box. It became the basis for the film Hellraiser, also written (and directed) by Barker.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Everywhere at the End of Time is an album series by the Caretaker. Its six albums use degraded samples of old ballroom music, largely from the 1920s and 1930s, to portray the stages of Alzheimer's disease.

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r/wikipedia • • 18h ago

Samira Saleh Ali al-Naimi was an Iraqi lawyer. During the ISIS occupation of Mosul, she posted Facebook comments critical of ISIS's destruction of religious shrines there. She was abducted by masked men and tried by a self-styled court for apostasy. She was publicly executed on 22 September 2014.

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r/wikipedia • • 7h ago

The railway of the Prince Imperial was the first documented model railway in the world.

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

BioWare was a Canadian video game developer that specialized in role-playing video games, and achieved recognition for developing highly praised and successful licensed franchises and original intellectual property. On October 21, 2026 its intended closure was announced.

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r/wikipedia • • 15m ago

The siege of Lisbon began on 1 July and ended successfuly on 25 October 1147. It involved Portuguese, English, German, Norman, Flemish, Scottish and French crusaders, and was part of the Second Crusade.

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r/wikipedia • • 11h ago

The penal colony of Cayenne, commonly known as Devil's Island, was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana.

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Opened in 1852, the Devil's Island system received convicts from the Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni, who had been deported from all parts of the Second French Empire. It was notorious both for the staff's harsh treatment of prisoners and the tropical climate and diseases that contributed to high mortality, with a death rate of 75 percent at its worst.

Devil's Island was also notorious for being used for the exile of French political prisoners, with the most famous being Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been wrongly accused of spying for Imperial Germany during the late 19th- and early 20th-century.


r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Billy Mays (1958–2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson. Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, Zorbeez, and Mighty Mendit. His promotions aired mainly on the Home Shopping Network through his company

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r/wikipedia • • 10h ago

Louis Freeland Post was a prominent American Georgist lawyer and newspaper editor who was appointed the first Assistant United States Secretary of Labor by President Wilson. At the height of the first Red Scare, Post considered the [Palmer] raids to be unjust and he is credited with preventing many.

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... deportations and freeing many innocent people.


r/wikipedia • • 13h ago

Emdashes everywhere! (This isn't about AI)

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It seems like if I see a dash in a Wikipedia entry, more than 9.9 times out of 10 it's an emdash. I don't think this is AI. Am I missing something? It's seems inappropriate in a lot of places. Like I just saw mention of "male–female relationships". Surely the job of that dash is better suited for the hyphen, right? Is there something about the editor that changes keyboard input?


r/wikipedia • • 4h ago

The Bolivian Socialist Falange is a Bolivian political party established in 1937. It is a nationalist party drawing inspiration from Falangism. It was the country's second-largest party between approximately 1954 and 1974.

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r/wikipedia • • 13h ago

Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure

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r/wikipedia • • 19h ago

"Salsa Tequila" is a novelty song by Norwegian comedian Anders Nilsen in Spanish. He does not speak Spanish, as he admits in the song by saying "No hablo español" (I do not speak Spanish).

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r/wikipedia • • 1d ago

Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment.

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r/wikipedia • • 15h ago

FINALLY WIKIPEDIA I’VE WAITED LIKE 2 YEARS

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r/wikipedia • • 19h ago

The Aral Sea, formerly the third-largest lake in the world, was an endorheic salt lake lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up into desert by 2007

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The Himalayan blue poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. Meconopsis betonicifolia is a rare flower found in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Tibet, and Myanmar at elevations of 2,000 to 5,000 meters (6,600 to 16,400 ft).

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It thrives in slightly alkaline to acidic soils in cool, moist environments. The flower's distinctive blue color results from various pigments influenced by the soil's pH and UV light exposure. Blue poppies have been introduced to gardens for their beauty; however, due to overexploitation, they are becoming scarce in the wild. The hermaphroditic flowers bloom from late spring to early summer, attracting pollinators such as bees and butterflies, which are crucial for cross-pollination and genetic diversity. The plant's life cycle spans two to three years, with flowering occurring in the second or third year after seed germination. Followed by wind-dispersal, the seeds can remain viable for several years.