Unusual articles on Wikipedia
Wikipedia actually has a page listing “valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but [that] are somewhat odd, whimsical, or something you wouldn’t expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica or similar”.
It’s worth hours and hours of lurking through fascinanting entries such as the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (complete name sign above), Toynbee tiles, Project Mohole, the mythical Utah teapot, the Man-eating Tree…
In short, Forteana on the Web 2.0.
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