good wikipedia articles

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that’s good, we could probably use more of that stuff

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iron getting the last laugh over oxygen

(this is a joke about corrosion)

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earliest known list of games.

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it rules that this is old as hell. I mean of course it is. maybe it rules that we still play it

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grundle

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Love it when a wikipedia article has exactly the right combo of obscurity + at least one diehard fan to allow for a bit of unsanctioned flair and editorializing

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Not an article, but I just discovered the Wikipedia reference desk, which is amazing.

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Sylvester writes that when he showed a model to Kelvin, he “nursed it as if it had been his own child, and when a motion was made to relieve him of it, replied ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it—it is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life.’”

Peaucellier-Lipkin_Inversor

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let it rip

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