Wikipedia:Wiki Wormhole

Wiki Wormhole was a weekly feature of The A.V. Club written by Mike Vago. Like Wikipedia:Unusual articles, Wiki Wormhole tends to feature some of Wikipedia's more peculiar fare. Based on the rabbit holes that readers find themselves in during a "wikiwalk", Wiki Wormhole typically includes mentions of the strangest fact, the biggest controversy, the things the author was happiest/unhappiest to learn, and the best link to another Wikipedia article.

Wiki Wormhole
No. Wikipedia article Title Best link to elsewhere Date
1 Fried dough foods Wackipedia: A comprehensive list of the world's fried dough foods schools readers on Chiburekki, Nonnevotte, and hush puppies 2013-06-10
2 List of chairs The Wiki Wormhole: Behold, the Internet's most comprehensive list of chairs 2013-06-17
3 List of U.S. state partition proposals Wiki Wormhole: List of U.S. State Partition Proposals 2013-06-24
4 List of inventors killed by their own inventions Wiki Wormhole: List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions 2013-07-01
5 Anime Bath Scene Wiki (a separate wiki) Wiki Wormhole: Dive into the wild world of Anime bath scenes 2013-07-08
6 List of city nicknames in the United States Wiki Wormhole: Explore a list of every U.S. city nickname 2013-07-15
7 Folly Wiki Wormhole: Investigating the folly of buildings that serve absolutely no purpose 2013-07-22
8 Non-human electoral candidates Wiki Wormhole: Tired of politics-as-usual? Check out the page on animals who have run for office. 2013-07-29
9 List of celebrities involved with WrestleMania Wiki Wormhole: Rejoice, for there is a list of every celebrity who has ever appeared at WrestleMania 2013-08-05
10 List of films considered the worst Wiki Wormhole: Here's a comprehensive list of the worst movies ever made 2013-08-12
11 Cola Wiki Wormhole: Quench a thirst for knowledge with a page all about cola 2013-08-18
12 List of theological demons Wiki Wormhole: Let Wikipedia help you wrestle with demons, personal and otherwise 2013-08-25
13 Discontinued merit badges Wiki Wormhole: Break out the s'mores, sit around the campfire, and read about discontinued merit badges 2013-09-03
14 List of common misconceptions Wiki Wormhole: Set the record straight with this list of common misconceptions 2013-09-09
15 Defunct NFL franchises Wiki Wormhole: Ring in football season with Wikipedia's list of defunct NFL franchises 2013-09-16
16 TV Series Cancelled After One Episode Wiki Wormhole: Wikipedia remembers TV shows that only lasted one episode 2013-11-17
17 List of conspiracy theories Wiki Wormhole: Get ready to strain credulity with Wikipedia's exhaustive list of conspiracy theories 2013-11-25
18 List of unusual deaths Wiki Wormhole: Cataloging some of the most unusual deaths of all time 2013-12-02
19 List of pirates Avast ye! Wiki Wormhole checks out an arrr-ticle about pirates 2013-12-09
20 Animal sexual behaviour Wiki Wormhole gets down and dirty with the animal kingdom 2013-12-16
21 List of observances in the United States by presidential proclamation Enter holiday hell with Wikipedia's extensive list of official festive occasions 2014-01-06
22 List of micronations Here's a guide to the world's micronations, from Llanrwst to Akhzivland 2014-01-13
23 Wunderwaffe Here's your guide to Nazi superweapons 2014-01-19
24 List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events It's the end of the world as we know it (and Wiki Wormhole feels fine) 2014-01-27
25 Legend tripping Feeling brave? Go on a legend trip with Wiki Wormhole 2014-02-03
26 List of Olympic mascots Wiki Wormhole delves into the bizarre world of Olympic mascots 2014-02-10
27 Advergaming Sell out to the man with this list of promotional tie-in video games 2014-02-17
28 Lost lands Wiki Wormhole: Explore lost continents that are mostly made-up 2014-02-25
29 Contents of the Voyager Golden Record Send more Chuck Berry! A look at the only album to leave the solar system 2014-03-03
30 Kowloon Walled City Wiki Wormhole investigates Hong Kong’s insane Kowloon Walled City 2014-03-10
31 Unexplained disappearances Vanish into a Wiki Wormhole with this list of unexplained disappearances 2014-03-17
32 Australian megafauna Crikey! Wiki Wormhole on the biggest, strangest animals from down under 2014-03-24
33 List of Major League Baseball mascots Wiki Wormhole: Celebrate the new baseball season with some of its strangest mascots 2014-04-01
34 List of scandals with "-gate" suffix It's Wikigate, as we explore a list of scandals! 2014-04-07
35 [[]] [ ] 2014-
36 Transhumanism Explore humanity’s next step with Wiki Wormhole 2014-04-14
37 Toilet-related injuries and deaths Use the facilities at your own risk: Wikipedia’s list of toilet-related deaths 2014-04-21
38 Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion In 1987, someone hacked into WGN, in one of TV's strangest-ever moments 2014-04-28
39 New Coke New Coke: The drink test audiences loved and America hated 2014-05-05
40 Unethical human experimentation in the United States Cross the line, into Wikipedia’s list of unethical experiments 2014-05-12
41 Bell Labs Drop some science with groundbreaking research institute Bell Labs 2014-05-19
42 Ed Wood Wiki Wormhole celebrates the worst filmmaker of all time 2014-05-27
43 Moonshine by country See how countries around the world make their own moonshine 2014-06-02
44 The Paraguayan War This war nearly destroyed Paraguay and made a hero of a mediocre U.S. President 2014-06-09
45 Nikola Tesla A look at erratic, influential inventor Nikola Tesla 2014-06-16
46 Monopoly (game) Go to Wikipedia, go directly to Wikipedia, for its take on Monopoly 2014-06-23
47 Top hat Stay classy as Wiki Wormhole dons a top hat 2014-06-30
48 Jack the Ripper History’s most notorious serial killer is still a subject of fascination a century later 2014-07-07
49 List of serial killers before 1900 Death takes a trip down memory lane with this list of pre-1900 serial killers 2014-07-14
50 Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations “You just made my list!” Just try to stay off of America’s Red Scare-era enemies list 2014-07-21
51 Secret societies Let Wikipedia indoctrinate you into its list of secret societies 2014-07-28
52 Numbers station Explore the century-old mystery of numbers stations 2014-08-04
53 Pedestrianism Walk, don’t run, to Wikipedia’s history of competitive walking 2014-08-11
54 List of Famous Trees Call the paparazzi, it’s Wikipedia’s list of famous trees 2014-08-18
55 Duel En garde! Wikipedia takes us through the history of dueling 2014-08-25
56 Benjamin Franklin This week’s Wiki Wormhole is all about the Benjamin (Franklin, that is) 2014-09-08
57 Typeface Learn to hate Comic Sans with Wikipedia’s guide to typefaces 2014-09-15
58 List of High Kings of Ireland Ireland’s High Kings spanned history and myth 2014-09-22
59 The history of smallpox Read about the worst killer in the history of the world: smallpox 2014-09-29
60 Easter Island Explore one of the most remote spots on Earth: Easter Island 2014-10-06
61 Ship's cat Take to the sea with Wikipedia’s list of famous ship’s cats 2014-10-13
62 Luck Do you feel lucky? Wikipedia is here to explain your good fortune 2014-10-20
63 Voodoo Explore Voodoo’s mysteries and misconceptions 2014-10-27
64 Zombie From pufferfish poison to Hollywood trope, the winding myth of the zombie 2014-11-03
65 Norse colonization of the Americas Meet the Norse sailors who reached America 500 years before Columbus 2014-11-10
66 List of fictional toxins (Deleted in July 2018) Just try to survive Wikipedia’s list of fictional poisons! 2014-11-17
67 Superseded scientific theories Sometimes science gets it wrong, as evidenced by this list of discredited theories 2014-11-24
68 Carbon dioxide removal Can we fix climate change? Here’s Wikipedia’s take on how it might happen 2014-12-01
69 List of emerging technologies Which of these future technologies will be the one to rise up and destroy us? 2014-12-08
70 Christmas controversy The “war on Christmas” has raged for a good long while 2014-12-15
71 Sex in space Visit the 250-mile-high club with a look at sex in space 2015-01-05
72 Operation Paperclip After WWII, the U.S. hired Nazi scientists en masse via Operation Paperclip 2015-01-12
73 Che Guevara Che Guevara: The man behind the T-shirt 2015-01-19
74 Pulp magazines Read the lurid history of pulp magazines 2015-01-26
75 Dyson sphere Explore one of space travel’s biggest ideas: the Dyson sphere 2015-02-02
76 Collaborative fiction Writing gets less lonely with this look at collaborative fiction 2015-02-09
77 Satanism Come worship the devil with our look at Satanism 2015-02-16
78 Marquis De Sade Christian Grey can’t hold a wax-dripping candle to the Marquis De Sade 2015-02-23
79 Jesters Laugh along with Wikipedia’s look at jesters 2015-03-02
80 Decline of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire fell, but Wikipedia survives to chart its decline 2015-03-09
81 United States dollar Wikipedia’s got its mind on its money and its money on its mind 2015-03-16
82 Jimmy Carter rabbit incident In 1979, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a giant swimming rabbit 2015-03-23
83 Tobacco advertising Tobacco advertising goes back a lot further than Sterling Cooper 2015-03-30
84 List of last survivors of historical events See Wikipedia’s list of the last survivors of historic events 2015-04-06
85 The Imperial Airship Scheme In the 1920s, dirigibles were Britain’s future 2015-04-13
86 Werewolf Beware the full moon—Wikipedia’s got werewolves! 2015-04-20
87 List of largest monoliths in the world Wikipedia’s list of monoliths looms ominously 2015-04-27
88 Mythological objects Choose wisely from Wikipedia’s list of mythological objects 2015-05-04
89 Visionary environments Explore artists’ visionary environments 2015-05-11
90 Unfinished creative work Can’t stop, won’t stop: Wikipedia’s list of unfinished works 2015-06-01
91 1995 Wiki Wormhole celebrates 1995 week with a look back 2015-06-08
92 Running amok Run amok with Wiki Wormhole’s look at, well, running amok 2015-06-15
93 Fascinus Wikipedia erected a page to explain Ancient Rome’s fascination with the phallus 2015-06-22
94 Tutankhamun Visit King Tut’s condo made of stone-a 2015-06-29
95 Twins Double your pleasure with Wikipedia’s look at twins 2015-07-07
96 Neologism Grok Wikipedia’s perfectly cromulent list of new words 2015-07-13
97 Tijuana bible America’s earliest underground comics made Robert Crumb look G-rated 2015-07-20
98 List of hairstyles Let your hair down with Wikipedia’s list of hairstyles 2015-07-27
99 Exotic pets Alligators, anteaters, and armadillos abound on Wikipedia’s list of exotic pets 2015-08-03
100 List of lists of lists Wikipedia devours itself with a list of lists of lists 2015-08-10
101 Category:Mythological human hybrids Unleash your animal side with mythological human hybrids 2015-08-17
102 Category:Alleged UFO-related entities The truth is out there, “there” being Wikipedia’s take on alien visitations 2015-08-24
103 Jandek Outsider artist Jandek released dozens of albums anonymously 2015-08-31
104 Pseudoscience The jury’s still out on science, with Wikipedia’s look at pseudoscience 2015-09-14
105 Berenstain Bears Let Wikipedia take you to Berenstain Bear country 2015-09-21
106 New York City Subway Commute with Wikipedia to the overcrowded New York City Subway 2015-09-28
107 Graffiti Wiki Wormhole has a posse: Check out Wikipeida’s look at graffiti 2015-10-05
108 Tea culture Have a spot of tea with Wikipedia 2015-10-12
109 Hippie Far out, man: Wiki Wormhole takes a look at hippies 2015-10-19
110 Exploitation film Grab some popcorn—Wikipedia’s looking at exploitation films 2015-10-26
111 World War III Get ready for World War III with Wikipedia! 2015-11-02
112 Human mission to Mars Take a trip to the red planet via Wiki Wormhole 2015-11-09
113 List of most expensive films Wikipedia shows you the money, with the list of the most expensive films ever made 2015-11-16
114 Howard Hughes Follow the outsized successes and failures of mogul Howard Hughes 2015-11-23
115 Mormon cinema Visit Mollywood, the Mormon independent film industry 2015-11-30
116 Idiotarod Ah, the glory of sport: The Idiotarod is an annual downhill shopping-cart race 2015-12-07
117 Shopping cart Learn more about the humble shopping cart with Wiki Wormhole 2015-12-14
118 Toledo War The Midwest's almost-war was settled when Ohio and Michigan squared off in 1835 2015-12-21
119 Taman Shud case The victim of Taman Shud case is as much a mystery as whodunnit 2016-01-04
120 Collyer brothers Read all about famous reclusive hoarders the Collyer Brothers 2016-01-11
121 Dead-ball era Let Wikipedia take you out to the more sedate ballgame of the dead-ball era 2016-01-18
122 Gold rush Pan for nuggets of shiny, gleaming history in Wikipedia’s take on the gold rush 2016-01-25
123 List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes Get fresh with Rotten Tomatoes’ perfect-scoring movies 2016-02-01
124 List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes On with the worst: Movies with a zero-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes 2016-02-08
125 List of animals with fraudulent diplomas Thought your college roommate was messy? Check out these animals with degrees 2016-02-15
126 United States presidential pets Hail to the list of presidential pets 2016-02-22
127 Roy Sullivan Park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times—and lived 2016-02-29
128 Teetotalism Jump on the wagon with Wikipedia’s take on teetotalism 2016-03-07
129 Poisons Try and survive Wikipedia's list of poisonings 2016-03-14
130 History of Doctor Who Travel back in time through the history of Doctor Who 2016-03-21
131 Samizdat Risk time in the gulag by reading about Soviet-era underground media 2016-04-03
132 List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable These baseball records have stood the test of time 2016-04-10
133 Mr. Splashy Pants A decade before Boaty McBoatface, the internet came together to name a whale 2016-04-17
134 Product placement There are surprisingly few ads in Wikipedia’s look at product placement 2016-04-24
135 Fictional brands Pour yourself a nice, cool Duff, and read about fictional brand names 2016-05-01
136 Action Park New Jersey’s Action Park offered fun and injury for the whole family! 2016-05-08
137 Japanese urban legends Don't fall for Japan's urban legends 2016-05-15
138 John Titor In the year 2000, a time traveler appeared to predict the future 2016-05-22
138 Republic of Texas Texas was livin' large in the decade where it was its own country 2016-05-29
139 Timeline of the far future Top scientists have predicted events far, far into the future 2016-06-05
140 The Great Stink Take a deep breath and wade into the Great Stink, the Thames at its most fetid 2016-06-12
141 List of sandwiches The powerful bread lobby wants you to read this article about sandwiches 2016-06-19
142 List of defunct fast-food restaurant chains Take a bite out of Wikipedia's list of defunct fast-food joints 2016-06-26
143 List of anthropomorphic animal superheroes Before superheroes got grim, there were plenty of crime-fighting animals 2016-07-03
144 Mass hysteria Go crazy with Wikipedia's look at mass hysteria 2016-07-10
145 Salem witch trials Let the wild accusations fly as we look at the Salem witch trials 2016-07-17
146 List of general fraternities Put on a silly hat and join our list of fraternal organizations 2016-07-24
146 Emperor Norton I All hail Joshua Norton, America's first emperor 2016-07-31
147 List of cryptids What creatures are lurking out there in the night? Wikipedia knows! 2016-08-07
148 Ted Kaczynski 1996 saw the capture of one of America’s most notorious domestic terrorists 2016-08-14
149 Glasgow Ice Cream Wars Glasgow’s Ice Cream Wars served up two scoops of murder 2016-08-21
150 Death by laughter Sometimes "died laughing" isn't just an expression 2016-08-28
151 Assassination of James Garfield President Garfield may have liked lasagna, definitely didn’t like being assassinated 2016-09-04
152 United States Camel Corps Before the Civil War, camels joined the army 2016-09-11
153 Mike the Headless Chicken One chicken with its head cut off made something of itself 2016-09-18
154 Polish-Muscovite War Long before Stalin invaded it, Poland tried putting one false tsar after another on Russia’s throne 2016-09-25
155 History of the world's tallest buildings The “world’s tallest building” title has had its—wait for it—ups and down 2016-10-02
156 List of controversial album art Parental advisory: Album covers have been inciting controversy for decades 2016-10-09
157 Proxima Centauri b Meet your neighbor—an Earthlike planet just 4 light-years away 2016-10-16
158 Lost film Much of early film history has been lost forever 2016-10-23
159 Salish Sea human foot discoveries No one knows why severed feet have been washing up along the Salish Sea 2016-10-30
160 Narco submarines Drug lords have been moving their wares undetected, underwater 2016-11-06
161 Krazy Kat A century ago, Krazy Kat was a comics-page masterpiece 2016-11-13
162 Boontling This California town invented its own language 2016-11-20
163 United States presidential election, 1876 1876 saw an election even more crazed and contentious than 2016 2016-11-27
164 Peter Cooper Meet the 19th century’s tuition-waiving, gelatin-inventing Renaissance man 2016-12-04
165 Resolute desk The president’s desk was once trapped in an iceberg, and other stories 2016-12-11
166 War of the Golden Stool In 1900, a 60-year-old woman defied an empire to protect her country’s throne 2016-12-18
167 List of sitcoms notable for negative reception Wikipedia delicately calls these terrible sitcoms “notable” 2017-01-08
168 Macro-engineering Think big with these massive macro-engineering projects 2017-01-15
169 Betty and Barney Hill An unassuming couple’s drive home launched a generation of UFO speculation 2017-01-22
170 The Cherry Sisters The Cherry Sisters’ vaudeville act was so bad it set legal precedent 2017-01-29
171 Mosuo The matriarchal Mosuo of China enjoy communal living and “walking marriages” 2017-02-05
172 Elizabeth Van Lew Meet the Virginia women who spied for the Union—right under Jefferson Davis’ nose 2017-02-12
173 Turtle (submersible) Think the U-boat was the beginning of submarine warfare? Think again 2017-02-19
174 Category:Musical hoaxes Don't be taken in by these musical hoaxes 2017-02-26
175 List of fictional magazines (Deleted in June 2019) Extra! Extra! Read all about it in these fictional magazines 2017-03-05
176 List of television series that changed networks Same time, different channel: These shows all switched networks midway through 2017-03-12
177 DuMont Television Network Tune in to long-forgotten DuMont, early rival to NBC and CBS 2017-03-19
178 Spite house Spite's a great motivator, even when building a home 2017-03-26
178 The Bozo Show Meet the clown who dominated Chicago’s airwaves for generations of kids 2017-04-02
179 Fairchild Channel F Channel F was 1977’s top game system—before Atari wiped it out 2017-04-09
180 Toynbee tiles An unknown artist embedded a cryptic message into city streets 2017-04-16
181 Trial of the Century The trial of the century only comes along a dozen or so times a century 2017-04-23
182 Evelyn Nesbit In 1901, Evelyn Nesbit was the most recognizable face in America—even before a murder trial 2017-04-30
183 Kinetoscope 120 years before Avatar in 3-D, the kinetoscope was the first high-tech movie experience 2017-05-07
184 Coney Island America's first amusement park is still an NYC icon 2017-05-14
185 List of television actors who died during production These actors didn't survive their last TV roles 2017-05-21
186 Talking animals Ruh-roh! Somebody taught these animals to talk 2017-05-28
187 Brown dog affair The death of one dog caused riots and shocked a nation 2017-06-04
188 List of unexplained sounds Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Explore some of the world’s unexplained noises 2017-06-11
189 Margaret Brown Margaret Brown led a remarkable life even apart from surviving the Titanic 2017-06-18
190 Masabumi Hosono Masabumi Hosono survived the Titanic, but not the public’s scorn 2017-06-25
191 Mandukhai Khatun China expanded the Great Wall to keep this female warrior out 2017-07-02
192 Buran programme Blast off with the USSR’s failed answer to the Space Shuttle 2017-07-09
193 David Rice Atchison After Polk, Zachary Taylor was our 12th president… or was he? 2017-07-16
194 Missouri Mormon War In 1838, Missouri witnessed the "Missouri Mormon War" 2017-07-23
195 List of Batman family enemies Holy obscurity, Batman! Take a look at some of Gotham’s least-memorable villains 2017-07-30
196 Raising of Chicago We (re)built this city: The time engineers lifted Chicago 6 feet in the air 2017-08-06
197 The boy Jones Meet the teenager who stole Queen Victoria's panties 2017-08-13
198 Teletubbies 20 years ago, a psychedelic kids’ show blew babies’ minds 2017-08-20
199 LANSA Flight 508 Read about a teenage girl’s harrowing journey after surviving a plane crash 2017-08-27
200 Amos Alonzo Stagg A century before Bo Jackson, Amos Stagg had a lasting impact on football, baseball, and basketball 2017-09-10
201 Liberty ship Liberty ships were cheap, ugly, and helped win WWII 2017-09-17
202 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Meet the English nobleman who may have been King James' boyfriend 2017-09-24
203 Alexandre Dumas France’s most famous author led a life worthy of one of his own stories 2017-10-01
204 Ant Tribe China’s millennials don’t have jobs or avocados 2017-10-08
205 Polybius (urban legend) Read the urban legend about the government’s secret mind-altering arcade game 2017-10-15
206 Ralph McQuarrie George Lucas owes the look and feel of Star Wars to one key collaborator 2017-10-22
207 Giallo Alongside spaghetti Westerns, Italy was also making “spaghetti thrillers” in the ’60s 2017-10-29
208 O.K. Connery Sean Connery's most famous role was once spoofed by his non-actor brother in the film O.K. Connery 2017-11-05
209 List of music considered the worst Cover your ears! It's the worst music of all time! 2017-11-12
210 Toast Wikipedia proposes a toast to...toast! 2017-11-19
221 Chevalier d'Eon Trans French spy Chevalier d'Éon was also a wannabe American revolutionary 2017-12-03
222 Bohemian Grove The rich kids across the lake never had a summer camp like Bohemian Grove 2017-12-10
223 My Immortal (fan fiction) Read if you dare about the worst Harry Potter fan fiction ever written 2017-12-17
224 Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles Wikipedia maintains a graveyard of weird deleted articles Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars 2018-01-07
225 Green Children of Woolpit It wasn't easy being green for these mysterious children in 12th-century England 2018-01-14
226 Category:People whose existence is disputed These historical figures rose to fame despite possibly not existing Category:Nonexistent people 2018-01-21
227 Crisis of the third century 300 years before the fall of Rome, the empire survived 50 years of chaos 2018-01-28
228 Alice Roosevelt Ivanka Trump has nothing on the country’s most interesting first daughter 2018-02-04
229 Death by coconut Never mind sharks, the beach's biggest danger is the coconut 2018-02-11
230 Death during consensual sex Turns out, sex can be deadly 2018-02-18
231 Pope John XII The young Pope John XII died as he lived: Fornicating 2018-02-25
232 Emu War In between world wars, Australia fought another implacable foe: Flightless birds 2018-03-04
233 Navies of landlocked countries Being landlocked hasn’t stopped these countries from having a navy 2018-03-11
234 Tarrare Meet the man who couldn't stop eating 2018-03-18
235 Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo In 1937, a dictator assembled a baseball team for the ages House of David (commune) 2018-03-25
236 Azolla event Meet the fern that upended Earth's climate 2018-04-01
237 Head transplant Science's dream of swapping people's heads may one day be a reality 2018-04-08
238 Negligible senescence These organisms are going to live forever, and not in the Fame sense 2018-04-15
239 List of premature obituaries These celebrities weren’t dead when their obits were published 2018-04-22
240 Crush, Texas This Texas town existed for just one day, long enough to host a fatal train wreck 2018-04-29
241 Checkers speech Once, all a politician needed to defuse a scandal was an adorable puppy 2018-05-06
242 Koro Penis panic and the mysterious case of the retracting phallus 2018-05-13
243 Philadelphia Experiment An invisible warship is at the center of WWII’s greatest urban legend 2018-05-20
244 De-extinction Science finds a way to bring back extinct animals 2018-05-27
245 List of visionary tall buildings and structures In your face, gravity: A look at the most visionary, ridiculously tall structures 2018-06-03
246 Non-rocket spacelaunch Here's how we're trying to get to space without rockets 2018-06-10
247 New Order (Nazism)#Hitler's plans for North America Hitler goes West: The secret plan for Nazi America 2018-06-17
248 Raelian Movement Greetings from the UFO zealots who say aliens created life on Earth 2018-06-24
249 Japanese raccoon dog This folkloric animal's only real-life power is cuteness 2018-07-01
250 Posthumous marriage "Till death do us part" is no obstacle to a posthumous marriage 2018-07-08
251 List of ghost films Ghosts are haunting Hollywood 2018-07-15
252 List of fictional U.S. states (Deleted in February 2022) From Calisota to Moosylvania, America has a lot of made-up states 2018-07-22
253 Vertical farming Tomato, ToMacco: Farmers are elevating their crops with vertical farming 2018-07-29
254 Julie d'Aubigny 17th-century French Opera’s a lot more fun when the singer also sword-fights 2018-08-05
255 Lost Ship of the Desert Forget the Bermuda Triangle—legends speak of a lost ship in the California desert 2018-08-12
256 Ching Shih Meet the 19th-century female pirate who launched a thousand (pirate) ships 2018-08-19
257 Phil Hartman 20 years ago, the world lost a singular comic talent in Phil Hartman 2018-08-26
258 Robert Smalls In 1862, a slave hijacked a Confederate ship and became a national hero 2018-09-02
259 Bass Reeves Meet the man who might have been the real-life Lone Ranger 2018-09-09
260 Muscogee The Muscogee maintained independence against colonizers for 200 years 2018-09-16
261 Chung Ling Soo The greatest trick this magician ever pulled was convincing 1900s Europe he wasn’t a dick 2018-09-23
262 List of entertainers who died during a performance The only thing worse than dying on stage is actually dying on stage 2018-09-30
263 United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins America once took 32 tons of shark fins to court Shark attack 2018-10-07
264 Quasi-War In 1798, the U.S. went to war with France—sort of 2018-10-14
265 Qiu Jin This Chinese feminist died fighting for revolution just before it finally arrived 2018-10-21
266 Geography of Halloween The Irish Potato Famine brought Halloween to the States, and candy is spreading it all over the world 2018-10-28
267 Cadaver Synod In 897, the pope dug up his dead predecessor and put his corpse on trial 2018-11-04
268 Hatshepsut Meet Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who men tried to erase from history 2018-11-11
269 List of pharaohs#Ptolemaic Dynasty Move over, Lannisters: No one did incest and murder like the last pharaohs Ptolemy XI Alexander II 2018-11-18
270 Collapse of Smile The Beach Boys’ ambitious follow-up to Pet Sounds nearly destroyed the band 2018-12-02
271 Samantha Smith In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R. He wrote back and she became our youngest diplomat. 2018-12-09
272 Ong's Hat The internet's first conspiracy theory involved a ghost town in New Jersey 2018-12-16
273 Mail art Special delivery: These artists' preferred medium was the mail 2019-01-06
274 Gef Meet Gef, the ghost mongoose who’d turn off the oven if the humans forgot 2019-01-13
275 List of historical currencies Wikipedia counts money that no longer exists 2019-01-20
276 New England vampire panic Early New Englanders thought tuberculosis was caused by vampires 2019-01-27
277 Hall of Fame for Great Americans The Bronx's Hall of Fame for Great Americans is just okay 2019-02-03
278 Mona Lisa (Prado's version) It turns out the Mona Lisa is just a Mona Lisa 2019-02-10
279 Oliver Cromwell's head Oliver Cromwell's head was buried 300 years after the rest of him 2019-02-17
280 The Man in the Iron Mask Turns out the Man in the Iron Mask was a real guy 2019-02-24
281 Category:Fictional characters without a name These characters made a name for themselves by not having one 2019-03-03
282 Category:Unidentified people History remembers these people, just not their names 2019-03-10
283 Five Pointz This Queens factory became a monument to graffiti, then gentrification 2019-03-17
284 The Langley Schools Music Project A 1970s Canadian elementary school put out one of the best albums of 2001 2019-03-24
285 Pittsburgh drug trials 1985’s baseball season was scandalized by a coke-dealing parrot 2019-03-31
286 Mary Toft In 1726, a woman convinced doctors she had given birth to rabbits 2019-04-07
287 The Accursed Kings Before the Targaryens, there were medieval France’s Accursed Kings 2019-04-14
288 Candy Desk In the past 50 years, one thing U.S. Senators have agreed on is candy—but barely 2019-04-21
289 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning Bah! Peppermint “humbugs” poisoned 200 people in 1850s Britain 2019-04-28
290 Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Dioramas can be murder! 2019-05-05
291 Chicken eyeglasses Move over, Warby Parker, somebody made glasses for chickens 2019-05-12
292 Homicidal sleepwalking When a nightmare becomes reality: These people committed murder in their sleep 2019-05-19
293 David Hahn Up and atom! This kid built his own nuclear reactor 2019-05-26
294 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs This lawyer helped pioneer the gay rights movement in late-1800s Germany 2019-06-02
295 Lesbian pulp fiction Pulp fiction was cheap, salacious and one of the only venues for lesbian love stories 2019-06-09
296 Albert Cashier Meet the trans man who fought in the Civil War 2019-06-16
297 List of television series with bisexual characters Bi erasure is a problem on TV as in life, but one that's gradually improving 2019-06-23
298 Bald-hairy The ironclad rule of Russian politics? Every other leader goes bald 2019-06-30
299 Porcelain China once had such a monopoly on porcelain we just call it “china” 2019-07-07
300 Dorothy Gibson Dorothy Gibson starred in a film about the Titanic only a month after surviving its sinking 2019-07-14
301 Waffles For waffles, life began as a Communion wafer 2019-07-21
302 Dunbar's number How many friends do you have? Science says it is less than 150 2019-07-28
303 The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate This artist's nudes gave him a bad reputation. His solution? Paint more nudes 2019-08-04
304 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 1999’s most anticipated film was a childhood-ruining debacle 2019-08-11
305 List of stories set in a future now past Plenty of sci-fi futures are now in the past 2019-08-18
306 Harry Grindell Matthews This inventor's death ray was totally real, but no one was allowed to see it 2019-08-25
307 Texas City disaster A Texas port town was leveled by one of the biggest explosions in history 2019-09-01
308 List of fictional worms Wiki Wormhole: Now with more worms! 2019-09-08
309 List of female American football players They weren't all kickers: Tackling the history of women in football 2019-09-15
310 Nose-picking Everyone nose: we all pick our noses 2019-09-22
311 Gombe Chimpanzee War Some apes Jane Goodall studied fought a years' long war 2019-09-29
312 Alice Guy-Blaché The first female director practically invented narrative film 2019-10-06
313 List of incidents at Walt Disney World Even the Happiest Place on Earth has had some bad days 2019-10-13
314 Utsuro-bune In 1803, Japan had an encounter with an unidentified floating object 2019-10-20
315 Parsley massacre Parsley played a brutal role in a crucial massacre 2019-10-27
316 Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories In 2015, conspiracy nuts were convinced the U.S. was going to invade Texas 2019-11-03
317 Category:2010 controversies 2010's controversies seem quaint by 2019 standards 2019-11-10
318 Category:Words coined in the 2010s (now Category:2010s neologisms) From "deepfake" to "manspreading", here's a look at words that dawned in the 2010s 2019-11-17
319 2010s in music Wikipedia tries to cover the last 10 years of music in one overstuffed page 2019-11-24
320 Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors Penn & Teller’s maddening unreleased video game became a cult sensation online 2019-12-08
321 Extreme ironing When ironing gets hot: How one boring chore was taken to the extreme 2019-12-15
322 Mari Lwyd Celebrate the holidays the Welsh way—with a singing horse skull 2019-12-22
323 Mars 2020 It's 2020 and we're going back to Mars 2020-01-05
324 The Liverbirds The ’Birds and The Beatles: Meet The Liverbirds, the Fab Four’s female contemporaries 2020-01-12
325 Jeanne de Clisson Avast! This french noblewoman-turned-pirate wasn’t out for treasure, just revenge 2020-01-19
326 Battle of New Orleans Pirates helped win the decisive battle in a war that had already ended 2020-01-26
327 Yahoo! Time Capsule Next month Yahoo!’s time capsule will reveal the distant past… of 2006 2020-02-02
328 Efforts to impeach George W. Bush We almost impeached George W. Bush, too 2020-02-09
329 Adolphe Sax Adolphe Sax just couldn’t stop inventing instruments and naming them after himself Mr Sax's House 2020-02-16
330 St Scholastica Day riot Animal House was tame compared to Oxford’s class of 1355 Medieval university 2020-02-23
331 United States Football League 35 years before the (second) XFL, the USFL brought football into the springtime 2020-03-01
332 Rocky De La Fuente Meet Trump’s used car salesman primary challenger Vermin Supreme 2020-03-08
333 Chalk River Laboratories Young Jimmy Carter once averted a nuclear disaster Manhattan Project 2020-03-15
334 Handel & Hendrix in London On one London street, baroque and psychedelic music are neighbors Clavinet 2020-03-22
335 Forty Elephants Meet the female shoplifting gang who ruled London’s West End for a century Cummerbund 2020-04-05
336 Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon The 1904 Olympic Marathon was the worst race ever run Heat index 2020-04-12
337 List of films banned in the United States Avert your eyes from this list of banned films Victim (1961 film)
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338 Capgras delusion This rare delusion convinces people their loved ones have been replaced by duplicates Fregoli delusion 2020-04-26
339 List of impostors These Wikipedia subjects are not who they claim to be Charlatan 2020-05-03
340 People's Republic of Pineland Every year, the Army invades our greatest enemy, North Carolina United States Army Airborne School 2020-05-10
341 Theories of humor Nothing kills a joke faster than overanalyzing it, so let’s do that Lightbulb joke 2020-05-17
342 Co-Princes of Andorra Tiny Andorra has two monarchs for just 77,000 people Boris Skossyreff 2020-05-24
343 John R. Brinkley This medical fraud’s miracle cure involved transplanting goat testicles into humans 2020-05-31
344 Dean drive This scientist claimed to have broken Newton’s laws of motion Hieronymus machine 2020-06-07
345 Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin was a key figure in the civil rights and gay rights movements Soviet Jewry Movement 2020-06-14
346 William Haines William Haines was out and proud in silent-era Hollywood Hopewell, Virginia 2020-06-21
347 Elagabalus This teenage Roman emperor may have been the earliest recorded trans woman 2020-06-28
348 List of northernmost settlements Beat the summer heat in the northernmost towns on Earth Thule Air Base 2020-07-05
349 New World Pictures Roger Corman’s low-budget studio gave us more than just cult movies Marvel Productions 2020-07-12
350 Fenn treasure 2020 can’t be all bad if someone found an actual buried treasure Category:Treasure of the United States 2020-07-19
351 Transnistria This Soviet breakaway republic never fully broke away List of active separatist movements in Europe 2020-07-26
352 Mariko Aoki phenomenon Do bookstores make you poop? The Japanese have a theory Bathroom reading 2020-08-02
353 Year 2000 problem The Y2K bug ended up being the millennium’s biggest anticlimax Y2K (film) 2020-08-16
354 Soramimi Misheard translated lyrics are a global phenomenon—there’s even a Japanese word for it Translation#Sung texts 2020-08-23
355 Battle of Bamber Bridge White soldiers declared war on their Black counterparts in an ugly incident from WWII 1943 Detroit race riot 2020-08-30
356 Straw Hat Riot A fashion faux pas turned violent in NYC’s Straw Hat Riot Mulberry Bend 2020-09-06
357 Auto-brewery syndrome Sometimes your own stomach can get you drunk Alcohol enema 2020-09-13
358 Futurist cooking The Futurist art movement tried its hand at cooking, with unappetizing results Fascism 2020-09-20
359 Ferret-legging Anything can be a sport, even stuffing an animal down your pants Four-minute mile 2020-09-27
360 Pauline Bonaparte Napoleon’s sister led a life of “Bacchanalian promiscuity” Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial 2020-10-04
361 My Way killings Karaoke turned deadly in the “My Way” killings Frank Sinatra Has a Cold 2020-10-11
362 Wojtek (bear) During WWII, a bear joined the Polish army Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski 2020-10-18
363 B. Traven The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre author’s greatest mystery was his true identity Coffin ship (insurance) 2020-10-25
364 Saddam Hussein's novels Aspiring authors in novel-writing month have a kindred spirit in Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder 2020-11-01
365 Monkey selfie copyright dispute This week’s most pressing legal issue: Monkey selfies! Animal-made art 2020-11-08
366 Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George", Pauline Wayne, Batman Dracula, Steamed cheeseburger Quick hits: Presidential cows, Batman Dracula, and steamed hams 2020-11-15
367 Busta Rhymes Island, The Zombies#Post-Zombies, Danger triangle of the face, Tomoe Gozen Fake Zombies, dangerous triangles, and more Wiki Wormhole quick hits 2020-11-22
368 Small penis rule, Mozart and scatology, Kynodesme, Peter Filandia, Bread dildo Bread dildos and other NSFW topics in this very special Wiki Wormhole 2020-11-29
369 Parking chair, Cow Tools, Long hundred, Wulfstan (died 1095), Kanchō Here are a few of Wikipedia’s most surprisingly controversial topics 2020-12-06
370 Judas goat, Project Pigeon, Digesting Duck, Animal trial, Rubber duck debugging Treacherous goats, deadly pigeons, and other odd animals 2020-12-13
371 Honkbal Hoofdklasse, Root hog or die, Tommy Westphall, List of games that Buddha would not play Honkbal, Root Hog, and other Wikipedia oddities 2020-12-20
372 World's longest hot dog, London Underground mosquito, Onfim, Clowns Gallery-Museum, Japanese addressing system, Iroha Clowns, hot dogs, mosquitos, and more quick hits 2021-01-03
373 Vin Mariani This cocaine-infused wine was endorsed by a 19th-century pope Non-alcoholic drink 2021-01-10
374 Feast of the Ass The medieval Feast of the Ass isn’t as filthy as it sounds Pseudo-Augustine 2021-01-17
375 Clover (band) Clover’s members didn’t become famous until after the band broke up My Aim Is True 2021-01-24
376 New England (medieval) There may have been another, older New England Portolan chart 2021-01-31
377 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game Warm up for the big game by reading about the biggest blowout in football history Running up the score 2021-02-07
378 Sam Raimi's unrealized projects Sam Raimi has a long list of movies he never got to make Development hell 2021-02-14
379 Kate Warne America’s first female detective once saved Abraham Lincoln’s life American Civil War spies 2021-02-21
380 Nottingham cheese riot Cheese-related violence reared its ugly head in 1760s England Truckle 2021-02-28
381 Tama (cat) This feline station master always kept things meowving right along Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 2021-03-07
382 Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist Canada’s heist of the century involved $18.7 million worth of maple syrup Maple syrup 2021-03-14
383 Great Boston Molasses Flood The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 was faster than you’d think Pepsi Fruit Juice Flood 2021-03-21
384 Live insect jewelry Meet the Beetles: This jewelry is made from live insects Fashion victim 2021-03-28
385 Turboencabulator The turboencabulator was the most complicated device never invented Thiotimoline 2021-04-04
386 Pepsi Number Fever In 1992, Pepsi Fever turned deadly Hoover free flights promotion 2021-04-18
387 Charles Radbourn This 19th-century baseball player still holds the record for most wins The finger 2021-04-25
388 The Mad Pooper The Mad Pooper caused a shitstorm in 2017 Exhibitionism 2021-05-02
389 Advergame Before in-game ads, these video games were ads Carol Shaw 2021-05-09
390 Erwin Kreuz The tourist who mistook Bangor for San Francisco Andre the Seal 2021-05-23
391 Pig War (1859) The U.S. and Canada nearly went to war over a pig Hudson's Bay Company 2021-05-30
392 Bat bomb The U.S. tried to win World War II with a bat bomb Tim Holt 2021-06-06
393 Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? "Who Put Bella In the Wych Elm?" is a question that's haunted Worcestershire for nearly 80 years Josef Jakobs 2021-06-13
394 Series finale TV series finales never fail to stir conversation—especially on Wikipedia Goodbye, Farewell and Amen 2021-06-20
395 1900 Summer Olympics Wiki Wormhole returns with a look at the second-ever Olympics Baron de Coubertin 2024-08-11