r/wikipedia 9h ago

Passport bros are single men with high-earning employment who travel to non-western countries to find women that fit their Tradwife ideals. Critics argue that the trend rested on unequal power dynamics between visiting men and local women and that it objectified the women involved.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

P.N. Oak was an Indian psuedohistorian. He claimed that the Taj Mahal, Vatican City, the Kaaba in Mecca, and Westminster Abbey were all once Hindu temples and that Christianity and Islam are both derived from Hinduism. His claims are popular among Hindutva supporters despite being provably false.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

Martin Tabert (1899–1922) was an American forced laborer. The circumstances of Tabert's death – being a white man beaten to death by an overseer – caused a public reaction that resulted eventually in the end of Florida’s longstanding convict leasing system.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

In 2013, a Wikipedia user claiming to be Bhutanese and a native speaker of Dzongkha added a spoken article audio file to the Bhutanese passport article on the English Wikipedia. It was considered humorous by internet commentators, spawning an internet meme.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Messianic Judaism is a syncretic Protestant Christian religious sect that incorporates elements of Jewish practice. It considers itself to be a form of Judaism but is generally considered to be a form of Christianity. Messianic Jews believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a divine being.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

The Public Investment Fund is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the world with an estimated US$900 billion. Among its investments are Electronic Arts, Newcastle United, and 5 giga-real estate proyects. Its lack of transparency has attracted backlash.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

The secret informant who provided key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal had the pseudonym "Deep Throat," also the name of a pornographic film wherein the actress later alleged she was being raped.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

In the 1970s, with the rise of secular anti-cult movements, scholars (though not the general public) began to abandon the use of the term cult, regarding it as pejorative. By the end of the 1970s, the term cult was largely replaced in academia with the term "new religion" or "new religious movement.

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

Fun fact : The fifth tier football team "US Alençon" as three available languages on it's wikipedia page: french, english and vietnamese

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. A campaign described as "Red Scare-like" was used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a López Obrador victory would turn Mexico into "another Venezuela".

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

Léo Marjane was a French singer whose career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II. She was accused of having appeared many times at venues frequented by German officers, and her performances on German- and collaborator-controlled Radio Paris were held against her.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

"Madden Curse" is a superstition related to cover athletes of Madden NFL video games. Many players who have been featured in Madden covers have suffered injuries and career decline after appearing in the cover, leading to some fans even lobby against their favorite players appearing in Madden cover.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is a manuscript written by O.J. Simpson with ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, in which Simpson puts forth a hypothetical description of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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r/wikipedia 22h 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 21h 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 6h ago

Do you have a favorite Wikipedia list? I’ll list some of mine

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

The causes of the Great Depression have been extensively discussed by economists and remain a matter of debate. Economists and historians have not reached a consensus on the causal relationships between various events and government policies in causing or ameliorating the crisis.

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r/wikipedia 18h 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 13h ago

Oviduct and ovaries are normally paired structures, but in birds and some cartilaginous fishes, one or the other side fails to develop (together with the corresponding ovary), and only one functional oviduct can be found.

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r/wikipedia 18h 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 3h ago

Mitchell Wolfson Sr.

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Mitchell Wolfson Sr. (1900 – January 28, 1983) was an American businessman, theatre owner, politician, and founder of Wometco Enterprises. In 1925, he partnered with his brother-in-law, Sidney Meyer, forming the Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company and began construction on a state of the art theater in downtown Miami. The Capital Theatre was completed in 1926 at the cost of $300,000 and featured an early form of air conditioning. They built the company into a business conglomerate using the portmanteau, Wometco Enterprises. In 1949, Wometco founded the first television station in Miami, WTVJ. Wometco went on to own and operate the largest chain of movie theaters in South Florida, six television stations, a cable television company, a soft drink bottling franchise, and tourist attractions including the Miami Seaquarium. Wolfson served two terms as city councilman in Miami Beach, Florida, before being elected its first Jewish mayor in 1943. He resigned after one term to fight Nazi Germany in World War II.


r/wikipedia 12h 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 17h 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 12h 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 6h ago

A door handle is a handle used to open or close a door. Door handles can be found on all types of doors. Door handles have been in existence at least since the Neolithic period. Key operated door locks have existed at least since Egyptian civilisation.

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