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The most radioactive human ever. Tanganyika laughter epidemic: Not so funny. Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln: A Hungarian-Jewish man who was, at various times, a UK Member of Parliament, German World War I spy, Nazi collaborator and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama. Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The strangest man to ever assassinate a US President. Highlight: the self-penned poem from the point of view of a child that he wrote for his execution. Jerome of Sandy Cove: A man, unable to speak any language known to locals, was discovered on the beaches of Nova Scotia in 1861 with his legs cut off. He lived for fifty more years, but remains ...
Most things that implode are pretty much off the list too, with a few exceptions. Anything written under the influence of recreational substances or while tired and emotional. An article about another article, written after the use of aforementioned substances. A fork of an existing article for the sole purpose of adding some humor. The weather ...
A disease, most envied by poker players, that makes facial expressions impossible. Mucophagy: The consumption of mucus. Nacirema: An obscure New World tribe with some interesting practices. Navel lint: A study proves that most belly button fluff is blue and that women are less likely to have it. Nasal sebum: Yes, that stuff on the surface of ...
This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list collects only scenarios that have been called a paradox by at least one source and have their own article in this encyclopedia.
The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span
Surely an obscure quantum-physics phenomenon? Nope! Red Star OS: North Korea's official Linux distribution. In line with Kim Jong-un apparently being an Apple fanboy, Red Star OS's latest UI design mimics macOS. Rubber duck debugging: Code debugging by explaining your code to a rubber duck. Quack! RTFM: Four letters that solve most problems.
Religion and sexuality and various related topics. Role of women in religion, Religious feminism, and related topics; Separation of church and state; Satanism; Sathya Sai Baba – enduring dispute about the amount of space devoted to describing the views of proponents and critics as published on their homepages; Scientology; Seventh-day ...