Weekly Wiki!

Posting an interesting Wikipedia article every week :)

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(Thinking of also doing a 'Freaky Wiki' where I post some more spooky / unsettling articles... Will link to it here if I do so!)

Weekly Wiki 2025:

✎ 1. Bouba / Kiki Effect

✎ 2. Fasciation

✎ 3. Fish Doorbell

✎ 4. Out-of-place Artefact

✎ 5. Sewer Alligator

✎ 6. Capitol Hill Mystery Soda Machine

✎ 7. Kryptos

✎ 8. Fermi Paradox

✎ 9. Rotating Locomotion in Living Systems

✎ 10. Liminal Space

✎ 11. Crown Shyness

✎ 12. Cyrillic O Variants (Multiocular O)

✎ 13. Thagomizer

✎ 14. Ancient Astronauts

✎ 15. Impossible Colour

✎ 16. Hang Son Doong

✎ 17. The Hum

✎ 18. Chicago Rat Hole

✎ 19. Action Park

✎ 20. None Pizza With left Beef

✎ 21. Pokemon Episodes Removed From Rotation

✎ 22. Magawa (Landmine-Sniffing Rats)

✎ 23. Biofluorescence

✎ 24. Bog Butter

✎ 25. Astromicrobiology

✎ 26. Personifications of Death

✎ 27. Colours of Noise

✎ 28. Spoonerism

✎ 29. Bigfoot Trap

✎ 30. Tullimonstrum

✎ 31. Haru Urara

✎ 32. Corrupted Blood Incident

✎ 33. Radiotrophic Fungus

✎ 34. Vampire Folklore By Region

✎ 35. Kuai Kuai Culture

✎ 36. Convergent Evolution

✎ 37. List of Hoaxes on Wikipedia

✎ 38. Pareidolia

✎ 39. Bookland

✎ 40. Fat Bear Week

✎ 41. List of Terms Referring to an Average Person

✎ 42. Centennial Light

✎ 43. Uncanny Valley

✎ 44. Yuru-kyara

✎ 45. Hura Crepitans

✎ 46. List of Unsolved Problems in Biology

✎ 47. Grawlix

✎ 48. Ough

✎ 49. Island Gigantism

✎ 50. Yonaguni Monument

✎ 51. Crop Milk

✎ 52. Ginkgo Trees

Posted these to friends and family during 2020, brought it back in 2025... Here are my previous set:

Weekly Wiki 2020:

✎ 1. Cosmic Latte

✎ 2. Ghoti

✎ 3. Antikythera Mechanism

✎ 4. Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)

✎ 5. Sedlec Ossuary

✎ 6. Phaistos Disc

✎ 7. Maschalismos

✎ 8. Voynich Manuscript

✎ 9. Rat King

✎ 10. 52-Hertz Whale

✎ 11. Toynbee Tiles

✎ 12. Ferdinand Cheval

✎ 13. Largest Prehistoric Animals

✎ 14. Brennender Berg

✎ 15. Star Jelly

✎ 16. Living Root Bridges

✎ 17. Cool S

✎ 18. Parietal Eye

✎ 19. Prosopagnosia

✎ 20. Wow! Signal

✎ 21. Scaly-foot Snail

✎ 22. Tree That Owns Itself

✎ 23. Tardigrade

✎ 24. Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

✎ 25. Vulture Bees

✎ 26. Mpemba Effect

✎ 27. Scallops

✎ 28. Methuselah (pine tree)

✎ 29. Hypnic Jerk

✎ 30. Gregor MacGregor

✎ 31. Potoooooooo

✎ 32. List of Proposed Etymologies of 'OK'

✎ 33. Tarrare

✎ 34. Cryptophasia

✎ 35. Safety Coffin

✎ 36. Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages

✎ 37. Parthenogenesis

✎ 38. Atari Video Game Burial

✎ 39. Semantic Satiation

✎ 40. Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeia

✎ 41. Petrichor

✎ 42. Uncontacted Peoples

✎ 43. List of Cryptids

✎ 44. Babylonian Astronomy

✎ 45. Numbers Station

✎ 46. List of Alcatraz Escape Attempts

✎ 47. A True Story

✎ 48. Gavle Goat

✎ 49. Foxfire

✎ 50. Carcinisation

✎ 51. Polydactyl Cats

✎ 52. List of Common Misconceptions

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