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Not sure if this counts but the wiki site for Guild Wars 2. It’s a wiki but not directly in wiki.com
And
Anna Sorokin
I mean, I have reason to believe they're not the most recent, but recentish:
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Matrix
Julie Kavner
LAGEOS
Church of the Universe
A&M Records
Paris Syndrome
List of films featuring hallucinogens
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin
Ryan Juanzemis
My desktop ones are probably different
- Argon2
- USB
- Hotwheels sysiphus
- Error detection and correction
- ISO 8601
- Standard Streams
- Subset
- ENIAC
- WYSIWYG
I don't really like this list, because it's more sorted by the last tab I closed than the last tab I visited, which is not really the same.
French Leave
Clara Vestris Webster
Tiny Tiim
John William Polidori
The Fall of the Angels
- Native Americans in the United States
- File Allocation Table
- Load (Album)
- Sentience
- Inverted Nipple
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics)
Nothing like a bit of bedtime existential dread.
- Muslin
- Anna Delviy
- Nancy Pelosi
- Aileen Wuornus
- Lindsey Graham
plants family mostly the ones that evolved to lose thier chlorophyll (specific familys, and thier phyologeny) then search for research papers for in depths explanations.
- Lies of P
- List of games in Star Trek
- Mao (Card Game)
- Cotton-eyed Joe
- Psychopathology
- Myers-Briggs type indicator
(From most to least recent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_in_loop_theory_and_quasigroup_theory
And I'm pretty sure a bunch of other pages related to loops and quasigroups. I don't still have them open, though.
I'm curious how 1840 came up.
My wife linked it to me and was like "Look at how big the turnout was! Highest turnout in U.S. history!" (at 80.3%)
Wow, that's amazing. I'm guessing the then very-limited suffrage had to do with it. It would have been just white landowning males at the time, right?
it's a number progression, 1839 came before it
My wife sent me Andrees Arctic Balloon Expedition. From there, the rabbit hole into Svalbard was self-inflicted.
Point Nemo
I wanted to know the difference between them because I was drawing digitally and changed the color picker settings.
I was wondering why we forget stuff when walking into a different room sometimes.
I don't remember—but I know the compose key is useful.
I was looking at different spins of Fedora Linux, and saw the Budgie version, which I hadn't heard of before.
Saw a post on Lemmy about recent protests in the US so I went and checked how big protests were.
It was Father's Day in some places, but not where I live, so I was curious about Father's Day dates.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish
In case you were wondering:
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity and does not consider an eruption imminent.
Interestingly, the buildup of magma causes the plateau to be uplifted by about 1 in. per year on average, which is one of the ways we monitor it. NASA studied how we could go about preventing an imminent eruption by cooling the magma, but another scientist said we could accidentally trigger it by trying. We may have to wait for something else for our next extinction event though. Yellowstone going off again soon would be a bit ahead of schedule.
Most of the other articles were just fleetingly topical to a conversation or book or something. Cymothoa exigua is interesting though. It's a fish parasite that severs the tongue of its host and effectively replaces it. I think I looked at it from another thread where people were posting their favorite deep sea animals.
The fact that oxygen may have shot up to modern levels really early on for a bit fascinates me in particular.
...i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate
...that's really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday...
- Herbert Hoover
- List of Extinct Dog Breed
- United States Senate Elections 2026 in [State]
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Gengar
- Weimar Republic
- Good Night White Pride(on German Wikipedia)
- First Opium War
- Finland–Russia relations
- Cambrian
I just checked out the article about the active volcano in Réunion Island, named Le Piton de la Fournaise. That's because I am staying there this month and hoping to catch some lava (not with my hands, duh. I will use a bucket).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton_de_la_Fournaise
From there I read about the Deccan Trapps, a large western part of the indian subcontinent that was pretty much formed by serial lava flows about 60MY ago. Then I was led to the article about LIPs (large igneous provinces), and I'm still falling down that rabbit hole as we speak. Fascinating stuff
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapps_du_Deccan
- Parallel ATA
- Amateur Radio
- Scandinavian defense
- History of tablet computers
- (i was searching for the oldest ones because my friend was asking for tablet recommendations. im hilarious)
- Magic SysRQ key
- Rodolph Mooshammer
- Hermaphrodite
- Cockroach
- Jinn
- Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Fluid construction grammar
Unscented transform
Heteroglossia
Lorenz system
Relict (biology)
Yuezhi
Are you a palaeoclimatologist who is struggling to convince someone of something?
If you were able to see what IP addresses had visited a Wikipedia page, would you be able to take the lists here, assume a reasonable time period going back, and identify uniquely which addresses had visited all 5 (or more) pages listed by each commenter?
Lucky you can't, I guess?
Mine:
In a fun piece of trivia, I was looking up Katee Sackhoff because I was trying to find out who did the voice for Bitch Pudding on Robot Chicken and then laughed my ass off when I realized it was the same lady who played Bo-Katan Kryze in The Mandalorian. I really need a Robot Chicken sketch with Bo-Katan going all Bitch Pudding on the Mando now. BLAM!
I have in my Obsidian Daily Note a "Today's random data" and this has brings me the last five days:
Now I kind of want to have a daily Lemmy thread where we read and discuss a random Wikipedia article as a community.
It would be really great!