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Procrastinating with the Weirdness of Wikipedia

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Tax Day is coming up. If you’re a procrastinator, instead of compiling your receipts and looking for your W-2 form, you may have gone down a rabbit hole online— and there is no deeper rabbit hole than the one provided by Wikipedia. From the Streisand Effect to fart lightning to the lost state of Westsylvania, the social media account Depths of Wikipedia is dedicated to chronicling the weird and wonderful facts and articles on the internet’s free encyclopedia. We’ll explore some of the strangest topics, passages and photos on the site, and hear some of your favorite entries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

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Tax day is coming up on Monday, and maybe, just maybe, you're looking for something,

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anything to do on the internet.

1:02.9

Instead of compiling your expenses or tracking down W-2s, if you're looking for a rabbit hole to distract you, there's no better field for exploration than Wikipedia.

1:07.5

And today, we bring you the very best rabbit hole finder on the whole of the internet perhaps.

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Her name is Annie Rawarda, and she runs the wildly popular social media juggernaut depths of Wikipedia.

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She joins us to share some of the strangest entries on the online collaborative encyclopedia.

1:24.5

We'll learn some weird things. Here's some of your favorite entries and maybe even play a round of Wikispedia. It's Friday and that's all coming up next.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. There is a period in the fossil record, around 18 and a half million to

1:45.9

25 million years ago, in which there are very few fossils of cats in North America. It's known as

1:52.8

the cat gap. You might have learned that fact recently on social media if you're one of the more

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