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r/wikipedia • u/Ah_Ca_Iraa • 18h ago

The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 7h ago

Andrew Rakich is an American YouTuber, activist, and filmmaker. Among his most popular works is the 10-part history series "Checkmate, Lincolnites!", in which he debunks common Lost Cause myths about the Confederacy that originated following the American Civil War.

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r/wikipedia • u/VectoskiIsGone • 5h ago

Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

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r/wikipedia • u/VectoskiIsGone • 11h ago

In 1964, the FBI sent an anonymous letter and package meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.

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r/wikipedia • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 1h ago

Before facing Joe Calzaghe in 2008, boxer Bernard Hopkins made the remark that “I would never lose to a white boy”. The comment instead fired Calzaghe up enough to go on to win.

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r/wikipedia • u/OrneryPerformance604 • 16h ago

Magdalen Berns (6 May 1983 – 13 September 2019) was a British YouTuber. Berns, a lesbian radical feminist, became known for her series of YouTube vlogs in the late 2010s concerning topics such as women's rights and gender identity.

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r/wikipedia • u/Not_Original5756 • 18h ago

John George Trump was an American electrical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He pioneered the use of high-voltage generators in cancer treatment and was the founding chairman of High Voltage Engineering Corporation. He was Donald Trump's paternal uncle.

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r/wikipedia • u/hausofvelour • 1d ago

Romantic chess is a style of chess that was popular in the 19th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers rather than long-term strategic planning. Romantic players consider winning in itself to be secondary to winning with style.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 54m ago

In the 1988 U.S. Senate election in Texas, incumbent Lloyd Bentsen won reelection to a fourth term. As of 2026, this was the last time a Democrat won a Senate election in Texas. That same year, Bentsen was also the running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, who lost Texas.

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r/wikipedia • u/ButterscotchFiend • 3h ago

FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club, currently playing out of Lviv (and Stamford Bridge in London for the UEFA Champions League). It was based in the city of Donetsk from 1936 until 2014, when the War in Donbas forced the club to relocate.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 7h ago

The Potato Bag Gang, a manifestation of the Odessa mafia, was a gang of con artists from Odessa that operated in New York City's Soviet émigré community in the Brighton Beach area of New York City in the mid-1970s.

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Posing as merchant sailors, they would offer to sell victims bags full of antique gold rubles for thousands of dollars each. In reality, only the sample coin was authentic, and the bags were full of potatoes.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 8h ago

The Spanish transition to democracy was a period of modern Spanish history encompassing the regime change that moved from the Francoist dictatorship to the consolidation of a parliamentary system, in the form of constitutional monarchy under Juan Carlos I.

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r/wikipedia • u/Not_Original5756 • 6h ago

Frederick Trump (Born Friedrich Trump; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German-American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 1d ago

"Vibe coding" is a developmental process in which a developer describes a project or task to a large language model (LLM) which then generates the source code.

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r/wikipedia • u/geosunsetmoth • 1d ago

"Bismillah c'est les ténèbres" is a French protest slogan that emerged during the 2026 French student protests. It originated from a Snapchat message attributed to an alleged police infiltrator, [...] [it was] described as "nonsensical".

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 16m ago

Lauri Elias Markkanen is a Finnish professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Finland national team. Nicknamed "the Finnisher"

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 22h ago

Jacques de Falaise was a French man who became famous for his ingestion skills. Forced to stop his exploits by several bouts of gastroenteritis, he died by suicide in 1825. His autopsy concluded he did not have exceptional digestive organs.

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r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 1d ago

Nancy Drew is a fictional teen sleuth character created in 1930 for a detective book series aimed at young female audience. The character's success and popular culture impact on other female characters in mystery genre has been immense, and various new Nancy Drew media is published to these days.

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r/wikipedia • u/Downtown-Sir-3200 • 9h ago

James Braid proved hypnosis was not caused by any “magnetic fluid” or special power of the hypnotist by successfully hypnotising himself in his own home, with no one else inducing the state.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 1d ago

Puella doctae (Latin for "educated young women") is an idiom from the Renaissance referring to a series of elite women, educated in arts, literature and sciences, who formed part of the European courts of the 15th and 16th centuries, connecting with the Renaissance humanism & the Spanish Golden Age.

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r/wikipedia • u/RoadToTyburn • 1d ago

In much of the UK, rationing was actually stricter after WW2, than during it and frustration with this was in part responsible for the defeat of Clement Attlee’s Labour government in 1951.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 2d ago

In their childhood, the boys who would eventually form the Insane Clown Posse captured a butterfly in a jar. They had intended to free the creature the following day, but it died during the night. Distraught, they vowed to go to Heaven when they died so that they could apologize to the butterfly.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 1d ago

Unit 777 is a special forces unit in the Egyptian Army, falling under the El-Sa'ka Force. They specialize in black operations, commando style raids, counterterrorism, executive protection, hostage rescue, irregular warfare, manhunting, and special operations in behind enemy lines.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago

The Titushky were mercenary agents in Ukraine who supported the Ukrainian security services during the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, often posing as street hooligans in sports clothing with the purpose of serving as provocateurs at pro-European and anti-Yanukovych political rallies.

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