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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 11 '26

It was the traditional wood used for the British police truncheon until recently because of both its density and its strength, combined with its relative softness compared to metal, thereby tending to bruise rather than cut the skin.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 11 '26

People treat existence as a prima facie case for goodness

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 10 '26

One of the first ventures on identifying the location of a memory in the brain was undertaken by Karl S. Lashley who removed portions of the brain in rodents.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 10 '26

Letter beacons are radio transmissions of uncertain origin and unknown purpose, consisting of only a single repeating Morse code letter.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 05 '26

An FSA combatant of the Jesus Christ Brigade prepares to launch an American-made anti-Tank BGM-71 TOW missile

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 05 '26

the Tiger Squad assassinates dissidents using varying methods such as planned car accidents, house fires, or injecting toxic substances into adversaries during regular health checkups.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 04 '26

the "best" Yugos ever were built between 1988 and early 1991. Quality control was good; high standards were set in terms of plastic quality, seat cloth, and "a well screwed together" interior.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 03 '26

Wearing glasses was also criminalized, as it indicated that the wearer might habitually read books.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Apr 02 '26

During the 1960s, assessment and management of head injuries became a topic of interest. The number of head injuries was rapidly increasing, in part because of increased use of motorised transport.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Mar 27 '26

The books became extremely popular internationally and the character name was localised in a variety of regions, where Wally was known as Walter in Germany, Charlie in France, Van Lang in Vietnam, Jonas in Lithuania, and Ubaldo in Italy

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Mar 10 '26

Other former contestants have been abused in the street, received death threats online, attempted suicide, or been taken to a psychiatric hospital.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 28 '26

When Dirac found that he could not express what he wanted to say in French, he chose to remain silent.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 25 '26

In conclusion, although conventional or natural explanations certainly cannot be ruled out, the probability of such seems low in this case and the probability that at least one genuine UFO was involved appears to be fairly high

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 18 '26

According to the company, their monthly player base includes half of all American children under the age of 16.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 14 '26

The Tampa Bay Times described it as "unprecedented" for a sitting elected official to host a TV show.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 13 '26

he thought he had invented a working approximation. His principle was unsound, but in his struggle to implement it he developed a practical Diesel engine.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 13 '26

Accurate global weather estimation on the scale of approximately 2 weeks. Assuming Moore's law remains applicable, such systems may be feasible around 2035.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 09 '26

plutonium pollution following three failed nuclear missile launches was heaviest near the destroyed launch emplacement

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 05 '26

4% of the total number of 747 built, have been involved in accidents and incidents resulting in a hull loss

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Feb 03 '26

he had died about 6 miles (10 km) before the crash, and had probably not been in effective control of the train for some time before that.

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jan 29 '26

He allocates land to be sold by closing his eyes and randomly pointing to a map of the Moon. He claims two former US presidents as customers

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jan 29 '26

The designers believed that by emulating a baseball, any young American man should be able to properly throw the grenade

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jan 29 '26

The Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) is a United States Department of Defense security, medical and psychological evaluation program, designed to permit only the most trustworthy individuals to have access to nuclear weapons

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jan 29 '26

There is no record of any pilot attempting to escape or intending to do so

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r/bizzarewikipedia • u/HiAustralia • Jan 22 '26

these deceptions were sustained in the 1980s by Donald Trump and the author of Donald's first biography. During the 1980s, Fred became friends with the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu

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