Craziest Wikipedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beerj · Aug 27, 2016

Or when you have to take a dump in the snow...

Juan_Hong_Loe · Aug 28, 2016

Not crazy but a good read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

patooyee · Aug 28, 2016

Juan_Hong_Loe said:
Not crazy but a good read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

I listened to a podcast about the Slotin incident once. Apparently there is some speculation / disagreement over what really happened. Apparently Slotin was a show-off and had goofed with the screwdriver to scare people multiple times in the past. He would slowly slide it further and further out from underneath reflector until only the tip was barely underneath it, leaving the reflector just a fraction of a fraction of an inch away from falling and causing the core to react. Some of the survivors say this is what he was doing the day it fell. It cost him and most like others their lives life and made several people very ill.

It is crazy to me to think that they left such an important thing up to the role of a single flat head screw driver. I hope they at least had a Snap-On or other good brand.

Mongo44 · Aug 29, 2016

Robert Liston - Surgeon

Amputated the leg in under 21?2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright.

That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston

blacksheep10 · Aug 29, 2016

I'm self employed, so when I get sucked in to a story like this (or any cool wiki) it takes money literally out of my pocket. That said, I'm a trivia nut and love reading and learning. This is the latest one that sucked me in. Good read on the atavist site. Took me a bit to read it all. The wiki is short and boring. The whole story is pretty damn entertaining

Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombing

Long version:
https://read.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

jordan7118 · Sep 26, 2016

Very fascinating stuff posted, especially that Russian camping trip gone wrong.

jtzuki · Sep 26, 2016

stepup said:
This one is pretty crazy. 3 of the people died of fatal blows that destroyed bones but did no soft tissue damage. One of the peoples tongue was missing looking like it had been ripped out. The tore there tent open from the inside and left on there own accord barefooted in a snow storm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

I just watched an episode of Ancient Aliens last night that mentioned that incident.

TacomaJD · Sep 26, 2016

Re: Re: Craziest Wikipedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jtzuki said:
I just watched an episode of Ancient Aliens last night that mentioned that incident.

Especially cool that they found the picture of the yeti on the girl's undeveloped film. Crazy stuff.

InDaShop · Sep 26, 2016

Re: Re: Craziest Wikipedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

infamous1 said:
Wouldn't that be a Yeti?

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Thats cool, but I dont think it was a cooler.

jeeptj99 · Sep 26, 2016

AllGoNoShow said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

the **** is wrong with people?

Rjhoward32006 · Sep 26, 2016

Yall got me reading all kind of crazy ****!!!

jtzuki · Sep 26, 2016

Apparently there's a popular forest for committing suicide in Japan :wtflol:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara

y2knole · Sep 27, 2016

Beerj said:
I spent entirely too much time reading up on the Donner Party. But it's one of those things where you think you know the story but then there's a lot more to it.

theres a podcast called 'stuff you should know' that I used to listen to when I had a 3hour a day commute round trip... they did an hour + on it. fascinating stuff.

patooyee · Sep 27, 2016

y2knole said:
theres a podcast called 'stuff you should know' that I used to listen to when I had a 3hour a day commute round trip... they did an hour + on it. fascinating stuff.

That's one of my fav podcasts. I listened to that episode, too.

jordan7118 · Apr 25, 2017

Bump for more weird stuff.

stepup · Apr 25, 2017

jordan7118 said:
Bump for more weird stuff.

I had forgot about this thread. Here is another couple of good ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

AllGoNoShow · Apr 25, 2017

stepup said:
I had forgot about this thread. Here is another couple of good ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

WTF. Seriously makes me wonder what is ticking in some peoples minds.