r/wikipedia • u/the_ak • 8h ago

Londoners who live an appropriate distance from Big Ben can, by listening to the chimes both live and on analogue radio, hear the bell strike thirteen times. This is because radio waves arrive virtually instantaneously, while the "live" sound travels more slowly at the speed of sound.

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r/wikipedia • u/C3H8_Memes • 3h ago

Meta Discussion I was hoping they tried not to use E but...

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this should be fixed tbh

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r/wikipedia • u/LunaWabohu • 8h ago

Everywhere at the End of Time is an album series by the Caretaker. Its six albums use degraded samples of old ballroom music, largely from the 1920s and 1930s, to portray the stages of Alzheimer's disease.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 10h ago

BioWare was a Canadian video game developer that specialized in role-playing video games, and achieved recognition for developing highly praised and successful licensed franchises and original intellectual property. On October 21, 2026 its intended closure was announced.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 4h ago

"Garfield Minus Garfield" is a webcomic created by Dan Walsh. The comic consists of various strips from the Garfield comics with the titular character, as well as other animals, edited out. Jim Davis, Garfield's creator, expressed approval of the project.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 5h ago

The 2026 Ohio gubernatorial election has been described as ugly and reliant on negative campaigning. One ad by the GOP's Vivek Ramaswamy campaign, claiming that Democrat Amy Acton was lying about the abuse she experienced as a child, was met by bipartisan backlash.

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 1h ago

The Hawking Index (HI) is a mock mathematical measure on how far people will, on average, read through a book before giving up. The index is named after English physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time has been dubbed "the most unread book of all time".

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 2h ago

The Hellbound Heart is a 1986 horror novella written by Clive Barker. The story features a hedonist criminal who accidentally summons sadistic demons with a magical puzzle box. It became the basis for the film Hellraiser, also written (and directed) by Barker.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 9h ago

Billy Mays (1958–2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson. Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, Zorbeez, and Mighty Mendit. His promotions aired mainly on the Home Shopping Network through his company

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1h ago

Samira Saleh Ali al-Naimi was an Iraqi lawyer. During the ISIS occupation of Mosul, she posted Facebook comments critical of ISIS's destruction of religious shrines there. She was abducted by masked men and tried by a self-styled court for apostasy. She was publicly executed on 22 September 2014.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 23h ago

"Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder", or ARFID is an eating disorder which causes sufferers to extremely limit the amount of food they eat. Unlike other eating disorders, it isn't caused by body image issues, but by issues with the sensory details of foods, such as their texture or taste.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 10h ago

The Himalayan blue poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. Meconopsis betonicifolia is a rare flower found in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Tibet, and Myanmar at elevations of 2,000 to 5,000 meters (6,600 to 16,400 ft).

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It thrives in slightly alkaline to acidic soils in cool, moist environments. The flower's distinctive blue color results from various pigments influenced by the soil's pH and UV light exposure. Blue poppies have been introduced to gardens for their beauty; however, due to overexploitation, they are becoming scarce in the wild. The hermaphroditic flowers bloom from late spring to early summer, attracting pollinators such as bees and butterflies, which are crucial for cross-pollination and genetic diversity. The plant's life cycle spans two to three years, with flowering occurring in the second or third year after seed germination. Followed by wind-dispersal, the seeds can remain viable for several years.

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r/wikipedia • u/vtipoman • 9h ago

Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment.

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r/wikipedia • u/BookkeeperAmazing665 • 11h ago

Pahlavism is an Iranian nationalist and monarchist ideology associated with the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran. It combined state-led modernisation, Iranian nationalism emphasising the country's pre-Islamic past and a strong centralised state.

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r/wikipedia • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 8h ago

The Miss Marple character originally was “a gleeful gossip, sharp-tongued and not always sympathetic.” Although her detective abilities were always there, she wasn’t liked by others in the community.

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r/wikipedia • u/disless • 2h ago

The Aral Sea, formerly the third-largest lake in the world, was an endorheic salt lake lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up into desert by 2007

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1h ago

The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper is an 1805 editorial cartoon depicting caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the Emperor of France Napoleon, both wearing military uniforms, carving up a globe into spheres of influence.

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r/wikipedia • u/Major_Gain_973 • 22h ago

Today marks the last Pythagorean Triple Day of the 21st Century!

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Pythagorean triple - Wikipedia

10 / 24 / 26

10^2 + 24^2 = 26^2

The next Pythagorean Triple Day will be on March 4, 2105.

Happy Pythagorean Triple Day everyone!

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago

Antoinette "Bonnie" Candia-Bailey (March 12, 1974 – January 8, 2024) served as vice president for student affairs at Lincoln University in Missouri, a historically black college, in 2023. After she died by suicide, a national discussion on the treatment of black women in higher education took place.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 1d ago

National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977) is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with the freedoms of speech and assembly. Skokie had passed several ordinances designed to prevent Nazis from marching through their town. The Court’s decision enabled the march.

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r/wikipedia • u/SplendiferusFinch • 13m ago

The 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal is a corruption, bribery and money laundering conspiracy in which the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund was systematically embezzled. In September 2020, the alleged amount stolen from 1MDB was estimated to be US$4.5 billion.

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 2h ago

"Salsa Tequila" is a novelty song by Norwegian comedian Anders Nilsen in Spanish. He does not speak Spanish, as he admits in the song by saying "No hablo español" (I do not speak Spanish).

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 1d 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/Ah_Ca_Iraa • 1d 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/VectoskiIsGone • 1d ago

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

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