The wikipedia discovery thread of learning and discovery

redfenix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island

The islands are best known as home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians (or Polynesians) who accompanied them, an event retold in numerous books and films.

That's pretty awesome

what have you found lately that's mega-cool

Garlic Bread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_tapping

Futore

redfenix wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island

The islands are best known as home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians (or Polynesians) who accompanied them, an event retold in numerous books and films.

That's pretty awesome

what have you found lately that's mega-cool

Television: There are 2 live English TV channels from satellite, CNN, and Turner Classic Movies. Free-To-Air satellite dishes can be used to watch foreign TV.

what the f. i want TCM to be broadcast here for free!

Tam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

Brolo

as soon as I get home I'm countering any actual knowledge presented in this thread with excerpts from my favorite youtube comments

Indie Winter

all those shops that have ye in front of them, like Ye Olde Shoppe?

that's just a lazy printing of the Middle English letter for The.

Tam

Brolo

Tam wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

thank you for this @janson

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Tam wrote: »

I counter that with Gropecunt Lane

EDIT GODDAMMIT ROLO

Bedlam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_seconds

Last time I brought this up @framling gave me a bunch of shit. but it is totally a thing

Beasteh

generally i just click random and follow links through links until i am swollen with useless trivia

The Geek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

Indie Winter

666 is not the Number of the Beast

it's 616

FAQ

there was a woman in the shop I used to work at who would check all over a product for the number 13, the bar code and everything. If it was there, she wouldn't buy it

Maximum

Bonus points for anyone that can actually pronounce that word.

Tam

Indie Winter wrote:

666 is not the Number of the Beast

it's 616

so now 24.8193473 is the root of evil?
man

The Geek

Maximum wrote:

Bonus points for anyone that can actually pronounce that word.

hexa-koseeoi-hexe-konta-hexaphobia

Maximum

Now say it ten times fast.

The Geek

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Bucketman

Indie Winter wrote:

666 is not the Number of the Beast

it's 616

Someone get Reed Richards on the phone!

Maximum

I'm in the mood for pancakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup_urine_disease

The Geek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

Darmak

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:^:

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_Cock_Bridge (via Gropecunt Lane linked above)

JustinSane07

The aritcle for Cunt should be a picture of Madonna.

Also, Wikipedia is where I first learned about the Japanese Giant Hornet. Then I saw the video on YouTube and holy gods.

Darmak

Nothing like watching those things shear the heads off insects.

Tam

I fucking hate that thing and I'd kill every fucking one of them

Hunter

Keith wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_tapping

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole

Zay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crwth

Brolo

Once a Japanese giant hornet has located a hive of European honey bees it leaves pheromone markers around it, that within a short time attract nest mates that quickly converge on the hive. A single hornet can kill forty European honey bees in a minute and a group of 30 hornets can finish off an entire hive containing 30,000 bees in a little more than three hours. The hornets not only kill the bees, but also dismember them, leaving heads and limbs behind, to finally return to their nest with the bee thoraxes which they feed to their larvae. The hornets also gorge themselves on the bees' honey.

Tam

Rolo wrote:

Once a Japanese giant hornet has located a hive of European honey bees it leaves pheromone markers around it, that within a short time attract nest mates that quickly converge on the hive. A single hornet can kill forty European honey bees in a minute and a group of 30 hornets can finish off an entire hive containing 30,000 bees in a little more than three hours. The hornets not only kill the bees, but also dismember them, leaving heads and limbs behind, to finally return to their nest with the bee thoraxes which they feed to their larvae. The hornets also gorge themselves on the bees' honey.

fuck
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hornets

burn them all

Darmak

Tam wrote:

Rolo wrote:

Once a Japanese giant hornet has located a hive of European honey bees it leaves pheromone markers around it, that within a short time attract nest mates that quickly converge on the hive. A single hornet can kill forty European honey bees in a minute and a group of 30 hornets can finish off an entire hive containing 30,000 bees in a little more than three hours. The hornets not only kill the bees, but also dismember them, leaving heads and limbs behind, to finally return to their nest with the bee thoraxes which they feed to their larvae. The hornets also gorge themselves on the bees' honey.

fuck
those
hornets

burn them all

Fucking Talon

The Geek

JustinSane07 wrote:

The aritcle for Cunt should be a picture of Madonna.

Also, Wikipedia is where I first learned about the Japanese Giant Hornet. Then I saw the video on YouTube and holy gods.

The Japanese honey bee, on the other hand, has a defense against attacks of this manner. When a hornet approaches the hive to release pheromones, the bee workers emerge from their hive in an angry cloud-formation with some 500 individuals. As they form a tight ball around the hornet, the ball increases in heat [47 °C (117 °F)) from their vibrating wing forming a convection oven, as the heat released by the bees' bodies is spread over the hornets. Because bees can survive higher temperatures (48 to 50 °C (118 to 122 °F)) than the hornet (44 to 46 °C (111 to 115 °F)), the latter dies.

Sweet beezus, they literally cook an invading hornet. That is awesome.

Grey Ghost

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Tam

and Japanese honey bees rule
they don't take no shit from those motherfuckers

redfenix

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after giving his donkey wine then seeing it attempt to eat figs
ive read this like 5 times different places
and i always envision a stoned james franco in a tunic

Hunter

Grey Ghost wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Like a boss!

2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.

The Geek

Tam wrote:

and Japanese honey bees rule
they don't take no shit from those motherfuckers

FORM BEE DEFENSE OVEN!

JustinSane07

You guys should watch the YouTube videos. There's videos of the hornets grabbing the bees with their front limbs then biting their heads off like it nothing.

I believe there's also videos of the bee ball that cooks the hornet.

Edit: Also, here's the thing. Japanese Honey Bees know how to protect themselves from the Hornet. European Honey Bees, who were introduced to Japan to help boost bee populations, have no fucking clue to do what about them. So now Japanese beekeepers are crossbreeding the two honey bee species in hopes that they will retain the Bee Oven knowledge.

Futore

redfenix wrote:

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after giving his donkey wine then seeing it attempt to eat figs
ive read this like 5 times different places
and i always envision a stoned james franco in a tunic

this laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bustyEqYU

Tam

redfenix wrote:

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after giving his donkey wine then seeing it attempt to eat figs
ive read this like 5 times different places
and i always envision a stoned james franco in a tunic

ladies and gentlemen
this is the way to go

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Grey Ghost wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

1814: London Beer Flood, 9 people were killed (some drowned, some died from injuries, and one succumbed to alcohol poisoning) when 323,000 imperial gallons (1,468,000L) of beer in the Meux and Company Brewery burst out of their vats and gushed into the streets.