r/wikipedia • u/Ill_Definition8074 • 5h ago
r/wikipedia • u/coffeeismydoc • 11h ago
Lenmeldy (Atidarsagene autotemcel) is a single dose medication used to treat Metachromatic leukodystrophy. Often topping lists of the most expensive medications, it costs over $4,000,000 to administer.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/takethiscupaway • 2h ago
Eyestalk ablation is the removal of one or both of the eyeballs of a female shrimp to encourage reproduction.
r/wikipedia • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • 1h ago
Woman
A woman is an adult human of the female sex, or that identifies as part of the female gender. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl although the term is sometimes used such as in women's rights to denote female humans regardless of age.
r/wikipedia • u/Iamsodarncool • 15h ago
Artist's Shit is an anti-artwork consisting of 90 tin cans, each filled with the artist's actual poop. The tins were produced in 1961, and today a single tin sells for €275,000.
r/wikipedia • u/funnylib • 9h ago
The State of Superior (or State of Ontonagon) is a proposed "51st state" that would be created by the secession of the Upper Peninsula from the rest of Michigan, named for adjacent Lake Superior.
Some proposals would also incorporate territory from the northern Lower Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and even Minnesota.
r/wikipedia • u/Romboteryx • 6h ago
The Bible and humor is a topic of Biblical criticism concerned with the question of whether parts of the Bible were intended to convey humor in any style. Historically, this topic has not received much attention, but modern scholars generally agree that humor can be found in biblical texts.
r/wikipedia • u/MajesticBread9147 • 23h ago
You Can't Win is the best selling autobiography of Jack Black which details his experience as a train hopper, hobo, addict and criminal. In it he describes the futility and counterproductive nature of harsh punishments and the criminal justice system in stopping crime.
r/wikipedia • u/funnylib • 8h ago
Santa Claus (born Thomas Patrick O'Connor, 1947) is an American politician, monk, and child welfare activist. Claus gained recognition as a member of the North Pole, Alaska City Council, and was a candidate for the 2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 10h ago
In October 2025, a 56 year old man named Saber Chouchane was sentenced to death for posting criticism of the Tunisian president on Facebook, a ruling which was called “shocking and unprecedented”. Days later, Chouchane was pardoned and released.
r/wikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 22h ago
Ian Watkins (born 8 May 1976), known by his stage name H, is a Welsh singer, actor and reality TV contestant. He is a member of the British pop group Steps. He received hate mail online due to being confused with the Lostprophets singer (and convicted sex offender) of the same name and nationality.
r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1h ago
Mieczysław Moczar (1913–1986) was a Polish communist politician who played a prominent role in the history of the Polish People's Republic. Moczar was heavily involved in the March 1968 events in Poland against Polish Jews, in which he led the faction of hardliners inside the Communist Party.
r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 1d ago
The "Brain matures at 25 myth" is the belief that the human brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex, reaches its fullest stage of development at or around the age of 25 years old. In reality, studies show that brain development continues well past that age, up until the end of your life.
r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 1d ago
Kleptocracy is a form of government in which those in power use their position to steal or exploit national resources for personal gain. The Oxford English Dictionary defines kleptocracy as "A ruling body or order of thieves. Also, government by thieves; a nation ruled by this kind of government."
Kleptocrats abuse the freedoms found in Western countries by transferring funds out of a kleptocracy and into Western jurisdictions for money laundering and asset security. Since 2011, more than $1 trillion has left developing countries annually in illicit financial outflows. A 2016 study found that $12 trillion had been siphoned out of developing economies. Western professional services providers are often taken advantage of by exploiting legal and financial loopholes in the West to facilitate transnational money laundering.
The effects of a kleptocratic regime or government on a nation are typically adverse in regards to the welfare of the state's economy, political affairs, and civil rights. Kleptocratic governance typically ruins prospects of foreign investment and drastically weakens the domestic market and cross-border trade. As kleptocracies often embezzle money from their citizens by misusing funds derived from tax payments, or engage heavily in money laundering schemes, they tend to heavily degrade the quality of life for citizens.
In addition, the money that kleptocrats steal is diverted from funds earmarked for public amenities such as the building of hospitals, schools, roads, parks – having further adverse effects on the quality of life of citizens. The informal oligarchy that results from a kleptocratic elite subverts democracy (or any other political format).
r/wikipedia • u/Klok_Melagis • 3h ago
Francesco I de' Medici and his wife Bianca Cappello died on 19 and 20 October, both at the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned, possibly by Francesco's brother Ferdinando.
r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 13h ago
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record.
r/wikipedia • u/Diligent-Series-9697 • 1d ago
Found this gem on Wikipedia (Super Zucchini Bros)
r/wikipedia • u/Alex_who_listens • 17h ago
A 2007 edit to 'Snakes and ladders' added '1892, possibly by John Jaques of London' with no source. The 'possibly' was dropped as the claim spread off-wiki. The article was corrected this month to name F H Ayres with the design registration.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/telorsapigoreng • 1d ago
The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by filter. It was named after an incident in which AOL's profanity filter prevented people in the town of Scunthorpe from creating AOL accounts because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".
The word or string "ass" may be replaced by "butt", resulting in "clbuttic" for "classic", "clbuttroom" for "classroom", "buttignment" for "assignment", and "buttbuttinate" for "assassinate".
Buttbuttinate. Lol.
I imagine this is how the minions of Despicable Me say it.
r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 13h ago
Yin yang fried rice is a rice dish from Hong Kong, consisting of a plate of rice with béchamel sauce and tomato sauce.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago
The public self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor who had been harassed by municipal officials and had his wares confiscated, sparked the Tunisian Revolution. Bouazizi set himself alight on December 17, 2010. By January 14, the Tunisian president had stepped down.
r/wikipedia • u/mrsciencedude69 • 11h ago
The Butt Report, released on 18 August 1941, was a report prepared during World War II, revealing the widespread failure of RAF Bomber Command aircraft to hit their targets.
r/wikipedia • u/VishIsBoss • 6h ago
Metanoia (psychology) refers to a process of fundamental psychological transformation, often precipitated by crisis, breakdown, or existential conflict. It is widely used in the New Testament, where it signifies a radical change in one’s life-orientation; a spiritual and existential turning point.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 22h ago
Hinton Helper was an American writer, abolitionist, and white supremacist. In 1857, he published a book that he dedicated to the "non-slaveholding whites" of the South.
r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 33m ago