Happy new year Dabblers! In the first Wikiworm post of the year we discover that there are a surprising amount of places that are so exciting they seem to have been named twice. Take me to the list of tautological place names on Wikipedia   ... Read More...

There are some things in life that you may have seen happening lots of times without ever stopping to wonder why it is that the universe behaves in such a way. Today's Wikiworm article probably features one of those things - the Shower Curtain Effect - or the answer to the ... Read More...

A momentous occasion here on The Dabbler today as the Wikiworm reveals once and for all the answer to the important question; does a urine-detecting swimming pool dye really exist? Click here to go to Wikipedia and reveal the answer... ... Read More...

Welcome back all lovers of freaky facts! Slightly different format to the return of the Wikiworm this week, as we attempt to outfox google's fiendish algorithms. In the so-called 'gilded age' of wall street financiers only one woman rose to the upper echelons of the super-rich. Hetty Green was a shrewd ... Read More...

Think that Germans don't do whimsy? Well think again as the Wikiworm reveals this bizarre wikipedia article about a fictional german politician ... Jakob Maria Mierscheid has been a fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 11 December 1979. He was then the alleged deputy chairman of the Mittelstandsausschuss (Committee for Small ... Read More...

Yet another example of man being thoroughly beastly to pigs. A grisly story from Wikipedia in today's Wikiworm... War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare, mostly as a countermeasure against war elephants. In the first century BC, Lucretius noted that early humans may have attempted to launch wild ... Read More...

Can we read anything sinister into which hand a president writes with? The Wikiworm trawled Wikipedia to find out... The handedness of presidents of the United States is difficult to establish with any certainty before recent decades. During the 18th and 19th centuries left-handedness was considered a disability and teachers would ... Read More...

You wouldn't want to mess with the subject of today's weird Wikipedia article, discovered by the Dabbler's own Wikiworm... Gallus Mag (real name unknown) was a 6-foot-tall female bouncer at a New York City Water Street bar called The Hole in the Wall in the early 19th century, who figures prominently ... Read More...

Climps and Occlupanids? Must be another weird Wikipedia article unearthed by the Wikiworm... A bread clip is a device used to hold plastic bags closed, such as the ones in which sliced bread is commonly packaged. They are also commonly called bread tags, bread climps, bread tabs, bread ties, or bread-bag clips. ... Read More...

Dabbler legend Jonathan Law returns with a new series of posts about Phantom Libraries, beginning with the thing that set him off on an exploration of strange or imaginary lists of books: deleted Wikipedia articles. Warning: reading the lists contained herein is a bizarre and hilarious experience that will make you ... Read More...