The joy of learning random things on Wikipedia | Annie Rauwerda

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Writer Annie Rauwerda makes a habit of getting lost among the seemingly endless digital archives of Wikipedia, discovering fake towns, promiscuous tortoises, 19th-century fangirls and so much more. An avid editor of the crowd-sourced platform, she speaks to the joys of exploring niche and humorous subjects, accidentally learning just for fun — and broadening your horizons along the way.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	I'm Elise Hugh, it's Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.4	The other day I fell into a Wikipedia rabbit hole.
0:16.9	You know, one minute you're reading about some obscure horror movie trope and then maybe
0:22.2	an unusual chess opening move or then reigns on Buddhist pagodas.
0:28.7	As writer and comedian Annie Rowerda says, it's infinite.
0:33.1	In her fun and funny 2023 talk from Ted X U of M, an appreciation of Wikipedia and
0:39.6	why we should contribute to this ever-expanding body of free knowledge after the break.
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0:51.6	I'm Cheryl Dorsey, host of the Ted Tech podcast, where we bring you the latest innovations
0:56.6	and biggest ideas in tech.
0:58.9	Tech is evolving fast and it affects our lives, from the metaverse to the watches on
1:02.8	our wrists.
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1:08.2	RoboTaxi, what the next generation of Siri Alexa Google looks like, and a lot more.
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1:19.8	When I was younger, I used to be really into trivial pursuit and sometimes I would memorize
1:24.0	the backs of the cards so I could win.
1:26.7	And that's how I learned some of my favorite trivia.
1:29.2	Like there's a name for those three asterisks in the book when the vibe changes.
1:33.9	It's called a dinkus.
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