With the right state of mind , enough time on your bridge player , and a can - do mental attitude / darken worldview , your everyday Wikipedia browsing can rapidly devolve into time of day spent amongst the site ’s eldritch , bizarre , and morbidly absorbing black holes . make it virtually impossible to uncover all of the site ’s many dark and dusty corner — but damn if we did n’t attempt .
We ’ll belike never be able-bodied tofind them all , but we can at least compose the strangest of the unknown . Here are some of the weirdest , most freakish Wikipedia entries we ’ve ever lay eyes on . Think you ’ve got a better one to share ? Do n’t maintain back , Quaker . We ’re here to learn .
Euthanasia Rollercoaster
A self explanatory name if ever there was one . As Wikipedia so delicately puts it , the Euthanasia Coaster is a “ roller coaster design to kill its passenger . ” How does a coaster vote out its passenger ? By theoretically being the 10th marvelous structure ever constructed . At about a third of a mile high-pitched , 24 passengers would spend a solid two moment traveling up to the top of the first and only Alfred Hawthorne . Then , the 500 - meter drib would carry passengers at 220 miles - per - hr through a series of modest and smaller closed circuit , which would ensure that the deadly 10 g dose of force would never quite let up .
Of course , a actual , life(death?)-sized version does n’t actually subsist ; for now , it ’s but a concept / scale exemplar born of Julijonas Urbonas , a doctorial scholarly person at the Royal College of Art in London and proprietor of the rhymingest damned name you ever did see . seemingly , Julijonas Urbonas got the approximation from a “ verbal description of the ‘ ultimate ’ roller coaster as one that ‘ sends out 24 people and they all come back dead . ' ”
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Spite House
A spite house is exactly what it sounds like . Do you hate your neighbour ? Do you care to permanently hurt them by obturate their light , space , and any otherwise general enjoyment they might find oneself within their living fourth part ? Then you need to build a maliciousness star sign ! For example , in the image you see above , that footling plot of state was all one brother leave behind to the other of their sire ’s estate while the latter brother was at state of war . When the ex-serviceman came home to find that his scheming sib had left him a plot of land just small to be near - unusable , he built a tight fitting little structure just tall enough to block his bro ’s light and ruin his safe view .
Vladimir Demikhov
Vladimir Demikhov was a human centipede enthusiast before anyone know that was even an option . More specifically , he was a Soviet scientist who do all sorts of insane ( successful ! ) experiment like , for instance , creating his very own two - headed pup . Of course , Vlad was also a major groundbreaker in the champaign of organ organ transplant in cosmopolitan . The Dr. to do the world ’s first ticker transplant had even visited Demikhov ’s lab double prior — a part of his tale that ’s often overlooked in favor of the fact that this manmade a living two - headed frankfurter .
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CZUhTJaHU
David Charles Hahn built a nuclear reactor in a shed in his backyard at the age of 14 . After Hahn warn cop who ’d pull him over not to touch anything in his car as they’dprobably get Ra intoxication , the authorities began to get wary . Ten calendar month ’s later on , the EPA had to come pick up his category place as a Superfund cleanup site .
unluckily for Hahn , though , he was barred from ever pursue a career in nuclear physics since , accord to the EPA he has very likely lead over the maximal dose of thorium photo . He did , however , receive his Atomic Energy merit badge in Boy Scouts . So there ’s that .
List of Animals With Fraudulent Diplomas
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Whether done on a pipit or to call outdiploma millsfor their phony / nonexistent academic standard , there is a whole slew of animals walking around with MBAs while pooping on pavement . These are those beast . In one type , a computed tomography named George was even able to become an commissioned member of the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming . Way to go , George .
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Toilet Paper Orientation
If you ’ve ever want to read over 5,000 Good Book on the orientation of lav paper , boy do I have a treat for you . The article covers everything from politesse to technological improvement to sociology to psychology to popular cultivation to logical argument for to disceptation against to probability science and the listing go on and on . The most outre part of the whole article , though , is the fact that once you begin , you really need to keep reading .
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Lists of lists of lists
How meta .
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Death by Insects (Scaphism)
Another one that is , regrettably in this instance , exactly what it sounds like . The article itself has a richly detailed verbal description of an ancient Persian method of torturous execution , but here ’s the effect ( maybe stop now if you plan on eat anytime in the nigh future ):
The unlucky dupe would be strapped into a hollowed out wooden tubing of sort and force - give milk and dearest to the point of looseness and/or disgorgement . Then , for good measure , the slaying would rain buckets even more honey over their victim “ with special care to the eyes , ears , mouth , face , private parts , and anus . ” Then , to make indisputable they did n’t decease of desiccation , the milk and dear meal would be repeated day by day , all while more and more insects were heeding the honey ’s career and breeding in the victim ’s figure and feces , until demise amount several days subsequently , in all probability from dehydration , starvation , or septic shock . So , you know , not the best way to go .
Banana Equivalent Dose
Chart via XKCD
You ’ll be happy to know that this one is entirely unrelated to demise , bugs , or feces . The banana equivalent dose ( or BED ) was apparently first proposed in a atomic safety mailing list in 1995 as a way of state amount of naturally occur radiation in a way that ’s immediately perceivable . A banana made a legitimate unit , since eating one banana tree uses up one percent of your radiotherapy exposure average for a unmarried day . In other words , in a single day you ’re by and large endanger to about 100 bottom . Somemore fun , real Earth - esque examples :
The maximum permitted radiotherapy outflow for a nuclear tycoon plant is equivalent to 2,500 BED ( 250μSv ) , while a chestCT scandelivers 70,000 BED ( 7 mSv ) . A lethal superman of radiation handling is or so 80,000,000 bottom ( 8 Sv ) . A person live 10 mile from theThree Mile Islandnuclear nuclear reactor receive 700 BED of exposure to irradiation , the equivalent weight of eating two bananas each sidereal day for a yr .
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Emperor Norton (Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico)
In the mid nineteenth century , Joshua Abraham Norton had been accrued a decently sized fortune in San Francisco before a series of bad Timothy Miles Bindon Rice investments left him penniless . As rice investments are wo nt to do . Humbled and disgruntle , Norton decided to take fate into his own bridge player and try his luck at declaring himself Emperor of these United States . Which he did with the following varsity letter :
At the bossy asking and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States , I , Joshua Norton , formerly ofAlgoa Bay , Cape of Good Hope , and now for the last 9 year and 10 months yesteryear of S. F. , Cal . , adjudge and proclaim myself Emperor of these U. S. ; and in virtue of the authority thereby in me vested , do hereby order and manoeuvre the representatives of the different States of the Union to assemble in Musical Hall , of this city , on the 1st twenty-four hour period of Feb. next , then and there to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union as may improve the evils under which the nation is labour , and thereby cause confidence to exist , both at home and afield , in our constancy and integrity .
The high point of his nonexistent 21 - yr sovereignty admit Norton adding the musical phrase “ Protector of Mexico ” onto his title for perfectly no reason , abolish Congress entirely , abolish both major political parties , and mandating that both the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Church declare him Emperor .
In other words , Norton is a genuine American hero — if for no cause other than the fact that , when we die , we should all be so lucky as to have our Wikipedia pages bear the section “ Declares ego emperor . ”
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