In Louisiana, why is it possible to read the words,

Start Fire, on a building that helps to prevent fire?

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Latry.

Welcome back to Lateral.

Before we start, just to let you know that our website, Lateralcast.com,

now has a QR code. Here it is. Black, black, black, black, white, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, white, white, white, white.

Okay, this, this isn't work. Anyway, here to answer some questions that are far from black and white.

First of all, we have from the depths of Wikipedia, Annie Rowada.

How are you doing?

Hello, I'm doing pretty well.

What is the best thing you found on Wikipedia recently?

Because this is your job now.

It is.

Well, okay, here's one that's a little bit unusual.

It's not just an article. In the early days of Wikipedia, people use the most recently public domain

Encyclopedia Britannica to populate articles. And so I recently found some of the few

articles that have barely been changed since 1911.

And so that was kind of fun.

They're actually not particularly interesting,

but I learned a little bit about medieval laws in Europe.

Since 1911?

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