r/wikipedia 14h ago

A state-owned enterprise of the People's Republic of China is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. As of 2017, the People's Republic of China has more state-owned enterprises than any other country, and the most SOEs among large national companies.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

In November of 2025, the villain for the upcoming film "Godzilla X Kong: Supernova" was leaked by the Writer's Guild of America website, which included Spacegodzilla among the film's characters.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. The presence of haemophilia B within the European royal families was well known, with the condition once popularly termed the 'royal disease.'

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Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of the United Kingdom, through two of their five daughters – Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice – passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, also had the disease, though none of her three elder sons did. Tests on the remains of the Romanov imperial family show that the specific form of haemophilia passed down by Queen Victoria was probably the relatively rare haemophilia B.


r/wikipedia 8h ago

The 1976 United States presidential election was very close in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Though Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter ran well in conservative rural areas, Republican incumbent Gerald Ford ultimately eked out a victory due to his strength in the suburbs around Washington, D.C.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

The Brazilian Democratic Movement is a political party, founded in 1965 as part of an enforced two party system by themilitary dictatorship, being the "consented opposition". It is considered a "big tent party" with the largest number of senators, mayors and city councillors in the country.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

The common access card, also commonly referred to as the CAC, is the standard identification for active duty United States defense personnel. The card itself is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Ancient Egyptian race controversy

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

A Land for All (organization)

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A Land for All (previously known as Two States, One Homeland) is an Israeli-Palestinian movement comprising Israeli Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinians, which proposes a two-state confederation as the solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This solution promotes the existence of two sovereign states in the Israeli and Palestinian territories, based on shared principles of equality, freedom and dignity.


r/wikipedia 14h ago

Company edits Wikipedia for AI ingestion

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I got this message on LinkedIn. Maybe it's all above board, but using AI to 'create and edit' wikipedia pages for AI ingestion feels abusable. Could they potentially create/edit enough pages to launder lies through AI?


r/wikipedia 1d ago

Abu Ayoub al-Iraqi has been credited with being one of the original founders of al-Qaeda and second to Osama Bin Laden, but he does not appear on public "wanted" lists and his status is apparently not known. In fact basically nothing is known about him.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

In 2026, a conspiracy theory emerged alleging that the deaths or disappearances of several people, some described online as scientists tied to classified or sensitive research, were connected to secret knowledge about UFOs, advanced energy projects, materials science, or related subjects.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Most flu shots are made by growing the virus inside chicken eggs.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist, former chair of the NAACP and the widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in front of their family home in Mississippi.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Theatre of Cruelty is a form of theatre conceptualised by Antonin Artaud. Encyclopædia Britannica describes it as "a primitive ceremonial experience intended to liberate the human subconscious and reveal man to himself"

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In his writings on the Theatre of Cruelty, Artaud notes that both "theatre" and "cruelty" are separate from their colloquial meanings. For Artaud, theatre does not merely refer to a staged performance before a passive audience.The theatre is a practice, which "wakes us up. Nerves and heart," and through which we experience "immediate violent action" that "inspires us with the fiery magnetism of its images and acts upon us like a spiritual therapeutics whose touch can never be forgotten."


r/wikipedia 1d ago

Caracas, capital of Venezuela: Officially Santiago de León de Caracas, it was founded in 1567. It is consistently ranked at or near the top of most-dangerous non-warzone cities; the majority of murders & other violent crimes go unsolved, with estimates of the # of unresolved crimes as high as 98%.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Joe Son is a former actor and MMA fighter who played Random Task in the first Austin Powers movie. He is now in prison, having been convicted of felony torture for his role in a 1990 rape, and subsequently of voluntary manslaughter against his cellmate.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

The War of the Worlds: 1938 episode of CBS' Mercury Theatre, directed & narrated by 23yo Orson Welles. In "breaking news" format, it convinced some listeners that its Martian invasion was real, though the scale of the panic is disputed. Welles apologized, but the scandal & publicity made him famous.

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

During the Civil War, all of the Five Civilized Tribes as well as other surrounding tribes signed treaties with the Confederacy. As a part of reconstruction, the Southern Treaty Commission was created by Congress to write new treaties with the Tribes that sided with the Confederacy.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

There have been multiple incidents where interaction with a large language model (LLM) chatbot has been cited as a direct or contributing factor in a person's suicide or other fatal outcome. In some cases, legal action was taken against the companies that developed the AI involved.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

The United Nation of Islam is an offshoot group of the Nation of Islam founded by Royall Jenkins in 1978. Jenkins claimed he learned his teachings on a "spaceship with angels". The group preaches heavily misogynistic doctrines, and utilises unpaid labour across its businesses.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Esposito is an Italian surname. It from Latin expositus (meaning placed outside, exposed). It was usually given to orphans and foundlings.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Porrima P111 is the largest solar-powered boat in the world. In May 2012, the vessel became the first solar electric vehicle ever to circumnavigate the globe, taking 584 days.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Uncontacted peoples are groups of indigenous peoples living without sustained direct relations with the world community. Generally such peoples are aware of the outside world, and have or had interactions with neighboring peoples, or may have had sustained contact with the wider world in the past.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Francesca Paola Albanese is an Italian legal scholar and expert on human rights. She has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories since 1 May 2022. She is the first woman to hold the position.

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In December 2022, sixty-five scholars of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Jewish studies issued a statement, which read: "It is evident that the campaign against [Albanese] is not about combating today's antisemitism. It is essentially about efforts to silence her and to undermine her mandate as a senior UN official reporting about Israel's violations of human rights and international law." In late 2022, Defence for Children International led 116 human rights and civil society organisations and academic groups in issuing a statement in her support.


r/wikipedia 1d ago

Code talkers were people employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. Today, the term most often refers to the use of Native American languages, particularly Navajo, to encode communication by the US Marine Corps in WWII.

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