For those who enjoyed the first round of “top 25 interesting Wikipedia articles,” we’re back with 25 more ways to stretch your brain and waste time.
25. Animal sexual behavior (“Sexual cannibalism,” for instance)
23. Alan Greenspan
22. Robert R.
21. Kevin Trudeau
19. Dog (seriously! What you didn’t know about them would shock you!)
17. The Trail of the Whispering Giants
16. Hidden Mickeys
15. Hyperthymesia
14. Sywald Skeid
12. Agnotology
10. Genetic fallacies (For instance: The appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitatem) is a fallacy in which someone prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern. In a controversy between status quo and new inventions, an appeal to novelty argument isn’t in itself a valid argument. The fallacy may take two forms: overestimating the new and modern, prematurely and without investigation assuming it to be best-case, or underestimating status quo, prematurely and without investigation assuming it to be worst-case.)
8. Death of Subhas Chandra Bose
7. Green Flash
5. The World Trade Center in Popular Culture
2. Unobtainium
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