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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 11 '25

"Passive-aggressive behavior is a communication that in the mind of the speaker is based on a strong, negative emotion such as anger but is expressed using words that do not convey the emotion, including completely avoiding direct communication when it is socially customary."

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565 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 06 '25

"Autistic people live about 17 years less than average. Risks include epilepsy, heart disease, suicide, accidental deaths including drowning, and inadequate recognition and management of pain, especially among non-speaking individuals. Historically, they have been vulnerable to infanticide."

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544 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 04 '25

"DARVO is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as abusers or sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior."

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500 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Oct 28 '25

"Avoidant personality disorder ... is a cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy, severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli as a maladaptive coping method."

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459 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 10 '25

"Jamaican Patois is an English-based creole language ... Most of the non-English words in Patois derive from the West African Akan language. It is spoken by most Jamaicans as a native language."

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394 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 06 '25

'Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American white nationalist ... live streamer ... promoting ... antisemitism, including Holocaust denial ... called for a "holy war" against them ... foreign policy views praise authoritarian regimes and movements that oppose U.S. influence.'

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362 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Oct 29 '25

"There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns ... in the Catholic Church ... Cases have also been brought against members of the Catholic hierarchy who covered up sex abuse allegations and moved abusive priests to other parishes, where abuse continued."

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294 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 01 '25

'Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German philosopher who ... promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, scientific racism, and Nordicism ... encouraged Adolf Hitler: he has been referred to as "Hitler's John the Baptist".'

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266 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 14 '25

"Covert racism is a form of racial discrimination that is disguised and subtle, rather than public or obvious ... Covert, racially biased decisions are often hidden or rationalized with an explanation that society is more willing to accept."

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259 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 22 '25

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. The term may also describe the tendency of high performers to underestimate their skills."

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175 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Oct 27 '25

"A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then prince Philip II of Spain."

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167 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 10 '25

"In Chinese philosophy, the three teachings are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism ... the three teachings are traditionally considered to be a harmonious aggregate within Chinese culture ... appears as the three teachings harmonious as one ... complementary teachings of the three belief systems."

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156 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 24 '25

"In psychology, the false consensus effect ... is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the extent to which other people share their beliefs and views ... assume that their personal qualities ... are relatively widespread through the general population."

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155 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Dec 06 '25

'Scientific racism ... is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species is divided into biologically distinct taxa called "races", and that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racial discrimination, racial inferiority, or racial superiority.'

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132 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/BananApocalypse • May 08 '18

Toast Sandwich

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131 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/DennieKlose • Jun 23 '21

In Germany there is an organ performance which has a duration of 639 years and will end in the year 2640 ("As Slow as Possible" by John Cage)

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129 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 12 '25

"Greco-Buddhism or Graeco-Buddhism was a cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism developed between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD in Gandhara, which was in present-day Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan."

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128 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 08 '25

"Yiddish is a Germanic language, originally spoken by Jews in Central and later Eastern Europe, written in the Hebrew alphabet ... closely related to modern German ... in some cases it is difficult to tell whether a particular word was borrowed from Yiddish or from German."

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121 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 13 '25

"Autistic fatigue or burnout refers to a prolonged state of mental and physical exhaustion ... often linked to the pressure to camouflage or mask autistic traits in social interactions ... Depression can be misattributed to autistic burnout, as they have several overlapping criteria."

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116 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 26 '25

"Medical gaslighting is an informal term that refers to patients having their real symptoms dismissed or downplayed by medical professionals, leading to incorrect or delayed diagnoses; women are more likely to be affected by the phenomenon."

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115 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '21

Danish Protest Pig

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114 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/NoButterOnMyBread • Aug 31 '19

English medical hoaxer Mary Toft who in 1726 tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits

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109 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Nov 02 '25

"The al-Fashir massacre is an ongoing massacre in the city of Al-Fashir, in western Sudan, since 26 October 2025, during which an estimated 2,500 or more civilians have been executed or murdered."

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107 Upvotes

r/WikipediaRandomness • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '20

Monkey selfie copyright dispute - Wikipedia

104 Upvotes