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The Best of Wikipedia

This is my (tentative) compilation of awesome Wikipedia articles. I found many on my own, but I also picked a lot out from the lists compiled by jjijj and other users of Something Awful that were subsequently posted on reddit in a different form. It’s a constant work in progress. Enjoy.

Events, Occurrences, Incidents

Dyatlov Pass Incident

Dancing Plague of 1518

Valentich Disappearance

Great American Streetcar Scandal

Children’s Crusade

Anglo-Zanzibar War

Atari Video Game Burial

Taman Shud Case

Vela Incident

Roxanne Wars

Discoveries of Human Feet on British Columbia Beaches, 2007-2008

London Beer Flood

Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident

Battle of Los Angeles

Boston Molasses Disaster

1966 Palomares B-52 Crash

Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War

Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic

War of the Golden Stool

St Scholastica Day Riot

Blood in the Water Match

Wow! Signal

Sokal Affair

Cadaver Synod

Tunguska Event

Bloop and Slow Down

Banquet of Chestnuts

Red Rain in Kerala

Festivus

United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff (1971)

Jedi Census Phenomenon

McMartin Preschool Trial

Unfulfilled Religious Predictions

The Play

Self-Immolation

Norwegian Rocket Incident

Contest to Kill 100 People Using a Sword

Haboob

Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic

S. A. Andrée’s Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897

Starfish Prime

Individuals (Human and Non-Human)

Michael Malloy

Vasiliy Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov

Captain Midnight

Timothy Dexter

Tree That Owns Itself

Simo Häyhä and Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Yukio Mishima

Ota Benga

Valery Sablin

Hugh Thompson, Jr.

Emperor Norton I

Joseph Ducreux

Juan Pujol

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Wojtek (Soldier Bear)

Alexander, King of the Hellenes

Tadeusz Kościuszko

General Butt Naked

Pope Benedict IX

Rochom P’ngieng

John Titor

Szilveszter Matuska

William James Sidis

Mike the Headless Chicken

Cherubina de Gabriak

Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola

James Joseph Dresnok

Pope Michael I

Jim Corbett (Hunter)

Marvin Heemeyer

Nim Chimpsky

Marmaduke Grove

Jack Churchill

Cleveland Torso Murderer

Carl Tanzler

Gloria Ramirez

Xianxingzhe

Pedro Lascuráin

Ilona Staller

Garry Hoy

D. B. Cooper

Green Man

Hiroo Onoda

Kaspar Hauser

Veerappan

The Monster with 21 Faces

Dock Ellis

Samuel Byck

Mikhail Devyatayev

Shizo Kanakuri

Locations, Structures and Monuments

Hashima Island

Salar de Uyuni

Maunsell Forts

Iron Pillar of Delhi

Forest Swastika

Zone of Alienation

Castaway Depot

Sam Kee Building

Derweze

North Sentinel Island

Kowloon Walled City

Nan Madol

Sarajevo Rose

Oak Island

Anaconda Smelter Stack

Nazca Lines

Magic Roundabout

Borobudur

Skeleton Coast

Centralia, Pennsylvania

Bir Tawil

KVLY-TV Mast

Category: Phantom Islands

Darién Gap

Pruitt-Igoe

Boiling Lake

Saint Michel d’Aiguilhe

Mojave Phone Booth

Weather Station Kurt

Colonial Street

Crush, Texas

Marree Man

Aokigahara

Bouvet Island

Arbre du Ténéré

Coral Castle

Sedlec Ossuary

Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

Spite House

Le Palais Idéal

Baarle-Nassau

Gropecunt Lane

Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Mill Ends Park

Red Forest

Sable Island

Kola Superdeep Borehole

Plain of Jars

Alexamenos Graffito

MaDonal

Everything Else

Russian Woodpecker

World Press Photo of the Year

Voynich Manuscript

Rogue Wave

Cargo Cult

Island Gigantism

List of Cryptids

Scoville Scale

Mermaid Problem

Hákarl

Population Transfer in the Soviet Union

Mummy Brown

Misznay-Schardin Effect

Caste-Related Violence in India

Kilroy Was Here

Fan Death

Traumatic Insemination

Humanzee

Cheating at the Paralympic Games

Lake Wobegon Effect

Cymothoa Exigua

The Hum

Berlin Gold Hat

Mary’s Room

Lunokhod 1

Category: Paradoxes

War Plan Red

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

Kardashev Scale

Atuk

Casu Marzu

Indiana Pi Bill

Mellified Man

Pit of Despair

lp0 on fire

Metal Umlaut

6174

Piracy in the Straits of Malacca

Ghoti

Hobo Nickel

Romanesco Broccoli

Pica

Mary Celeste

List of Cats with Fraudulent Diplomas

Project MKULTRA

Animal Welfare in Nazi Germany

Talking Statues of Rome

Stendhal Syndrome

Censorship by Google