Interested in roads and road signs? Then you might just be a Roadgeek. Read on to find out if you qualify to join this exclusive tribe in today's weird Wikipedia article from the Wikiworm... A roadgeek is an individual with an interest in roads, and especially going on road trips, as a hobby. A person ... Read More...
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Will distant civilisations be impressed with earth's most valuable piece of vinyl? And what will they be listening to if they find it? The Wikiworm investigates courtesy of this Wikipedia article... The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records which were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977. They contain sounds and images selected to ... Read More...
Edward Donald "Eddie" Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier duringWorld War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including 49 death sentences, Slovik's was the only death sentence that ... Read More...
Could this be where trolls really come from? The Wikiworm investigates via another weird Wikipedia article... Folk memory is a term sometimes used to describe stories, folklore or myths about past events that have passed orally from generation to generation. The events described by the memories may date back hundreds, thousands, ... Read More...
A fine example of very low-tech British engineering in today's weird wikipedia article, unearthed by the Wikiworm... Panjandrum, also known as The Great Panjandrum, was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II. It was one of a number of highly experimental projects, including Hajile and the Hedgehog, that were developed ... Read More...
No, this isn't some terrible tale about poor malnourished bunnies... Read on to find out more in this week's weird Wikipedia article... Rabbit starvation, also referred to as protein poisoning or mal de caribou, is a form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (e.g.,rabbit) coupled with a lack of other sources ... Read More...
Sometimes even masters of the universe get it wrong. A cautionary tale in this week's weird Wikipedia article, unearthed by the Wikiworm... The oil futures drunk-trading incident was a mishap in which Stephen Perkins, an employee of London-based PVM Oil Futures, traded 7,000,000 barrels of oil, worth approximately US$520 million (£340 million), in a two-and-half-hour period ... Read More...
Butt-stroking is an offensive technique. Today the Wikiworm consults Wikipedia to find out the best techniques to use whilst butt-stroking. The buttstroke or butt-stroking, i.e., striking someone with the buttstock of a rifle, is a common case of the use of a firearm as a blunt weapon. Buttstroke is among the major offensive techniques with the rifle and ... Read More...
Cathedral diver? Sounds like fun, but this might have been the world's worst job. Read on to find out more in this week's weird Wikipedia article... William Walker MVO (1869–1918) was an English diver famous for shoring up the southern and eastern sides of Winchester Cathedral. He was born William Robert Bellenie, in Newington, Surrey, England, in 1869. Around 1900, he ... Read More...
A terrifying Russian fairytale in which a child is pursued by a talking wash basin? Just another weird Wikipedia article unearthed by the Wikiworm for the Dabbler... Moydodyr is a Russian poem for children, written in 1923 by Korney Chukovsky about a magical creature by the same name. The name may be literally translated ... Read More...
