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• Category:Non-idiophonic interruptive instruments
• 165 University Avenue– A small rented office building on University Avenue, the main commercial street in Palo Alto, California. Both Google and Paypal started there, among others.
• Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso…serine – An actual name for a chemical that is 1185 letters long.
• Wikipedia:Advice to T-Mobile IPv6 users – An information page that gives out instructions for T-Mobile users what to do when their IP address is banned from making accounts and editing on Wikipedia.
• Angry Video Game Nerd – Probably one of, if not, the oldest internet web series to “take you back to past to play those shitty games that suck ass“.
• Assassination of Orlando Letelier
• Atar, Padang Ganting An Indonesian village with a monument resembling a photocopier.
• Attila – Before he became the Piano Man, Billy Joel was making really awful psychedelic rock.
• Bent Pyramid – They hadn’t quite worked out the technique yet.
• Berwick-upon-Tweed – A small town which can’t decide whether it’s in Scotland or England, and was at “war” with Russia for over a hundred years all by itself.
• Big Wheel – One of Spider-Man‘s strangest villains.
• Biggus Dickus – A fictional Roman officer, who wanks as high as any in Wome, from the Monty Python film Life of Brian.
• The Book of Mormon (musical) – A Tony Award winning musical about Mormon missionaries in Uganda. Doesn’t sound that odd right? That is until you hear about the parts involving a song about Ugandan villagers repeating a phrase that basically translates to a phrase cursing out god, a running gag about a man having maggots in his scrotum, a song partially about Conversion Therapy, one of the missionaries talking about Joseph Smith having sex with frogs in order to cure his AIDS, a musical number basically equating Breaking rule 72 (leaving a missionary companion behind) and stealing a Doughnut with a maple glaze to starting World War II and The Holocaust, conquering most of the known world, killing people and committing necrophilia, and letting O.J. Simpson free, A musical number involving a group of villagers reciting wildly inaccurate Mormon History (Which features parts such as Brigham Young‘s nose being turned into a clitoris as a punishment after cutting off his daughter’s, Joseph Smith dying of dysentery, and ending with a giant orgy in “Sal Tlay Ka Siti“), and a new church being created that mixes Mormonism with pop culture. Unsurprisingly, the minds behind South Park, and surprisingly the guy who wrote Let It Go from Frozen were directly involved within the making of the musical.
• Border between West Jersey and East Jersey – A specific border that has been disputed for years.
• Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala – One of the most tragic episodes in the history of relations between the two countries.
• John Allen Chau – A lesson for all of us: don’t stick religion where it’s not wanted.
• Chauchat – The worst machine gun ever invented.
• Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov – A Russian spy who used a fake Brazilian passport to gain access to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. He was identified and is now serving a sentence in a Brazilian federal prison.
• Collier Motors – An American Motors Corporation dealer that is still in business despite the fact that AMC stopped manufacturing cars in 1987.
• Color TV-Game – Nintendo’s humble beginnings.
• Computer Space – The world’s first arcade game machine, launched in 1970.
• Conservapedia – A right wing, young earth creationist answer to Wikipedia.
• Daniel A. Grout – An individual whose last name has absorbed itself into the linguistic culture of Reed College.
• Douglas Corrigan – A pilot nicknamed “Wrong Way” Corrigan after he made such a grave navigational “error” that, after taking off from New York, he landed in Ireland instead of Los Angeles.
• User:Dronebogus/True facts about Wikipe-tan – A humorous page about the cutest Wikipedia mascot.
• East Africa rugby union team – Did this rugby team really select a future dictator to play for them?
• Elysia chlorotica – A solar-powered sea slug.
• Energy vampire – A “vampiric” individual that supposedly drains the life-force of other human beings.
• Fantasmagorie (film) – A claimant for the title of the first animated cartoon.
• Ferdinand Lop – Perpetual candidate for the French Presidency who ran on a platform of outlawing poverty after 10:00 PM.
• Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals – Final Fantasy: the anime!
• The Funniest Joke in the World – A Monty Python sketch depicting the writing of a joke so funny that people die within seconds of hearing it.
• Fire on the Mountain (Bisson novel)– An alternative history book about a successful John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry.
• Garden hermit – Poor people living in your garden, to liven it up a bit.
• Goiânia accident – The worst nuclear accident in history in which nothing exploded.
• The Great Gatsby (1926 film) – The lost original adaptation, which the author’s wife hated.
• The Guianas – If you think about it, three extremely sparsely-populated South American nations that are culturally part of the Caribbean, with a population of Amerindians, Indians, Africans, Maroons, mixed-race Indo-Africans, Javanese, Chinese, Hmongs, Portuguese, Lebanese, Haitians, and Brazilians, is pretty weird.
• Gulag Archipelago – What really went on in the Soviet Russian prisons.
• Guns of the South – A novel where 20th century white South Africans travel back in time to give lots of AK-47 to the southern side of the American Civil war.
• “Hard Rock Hallelujah” – Eurovision goes metal.
• Have You Forgotten? (song) – A very likely pro-war song of the post 9/11 era.
• Tania Head A woman who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor despite living half the world away at the time.
• Hollywood (Mannequin character) – A fictional character played by Meshach Taylor in the 1987 movie Mannequin.
• Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch – A fictional weapon depicted in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It is an ancient Christian artifact that explodes when its pin is pulled out. Its humour is derived from its anachronistic juxtaposition.
• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces – Another claimant for the title of first ever animated cartoon.
• International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs – Who knew this existed?
• Japanese history textbook controversies – Who knew that history textbooks could stir such a controversy (and possibly be even disputed) in an Asian nation?
• Jimmy Jump – A chronic streaker.
• Judica-Cordiglia brothers – Italians who claimed that they recorded audios that proved the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy.
• Julie d’Aubigny – A bisexual fencer who burnt down a convent to save her girlfriend.
• Kalmyk Americans – Mostly came after World War II, and mostly haven’t had an ancestor who lived in Kalmykia since the 19th century.
• Klüver-Bucy syndrome – A behavioral disorder that can produce hypersexuality, as well as exploring the world around them using their tongues and fingers.
• Kumis – A traditional drink of the people of Central Asia made from fermenting mare‘s milk.
• Lorem ipsum – A mutilated Latin passage widely used as a place-holder in typefaces.
• Macquarie Island – Where rocks from the Earth’s mantle get exposed to the surface.
• Marijuana Party of Canada – A Canadian federal political party whose platform is to end prohibition of cannabis. See also Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
• Match fixing in Romanian football[1] – The Eskimo have many words for snow, the Romanian have one word for football-fixing. (That’s soccer-fixing to youse, Yankees!)
• Monster infighting – A demon civil war?
• Mooning – The act of exposing one’s bare buttocks.
• Marilyn Monroe in popular culture– The queen of Hollywood had a gigantic impact in several fields of popular pop culture.
• Mr. Potato Head – A popular children’s doll, consisting of a plastic model of a potato.
• Alessandra Mussolini – Mussolini still holds office.
• Héctor Germán Oesterheld – The interesting, yet tragic, story of one of Argentina’s most important comic book creators.
• Boris Onishchenko – Olympian who was disqualified for illegal use of a modified épée.
• Our First Time – The first major internet hoax.
• Overseas Community Affairs Council – A Taiwanese organization that keeps track of overseas Chinese populations from Greater China with a Taiwanese orientation. Taiwan does like to take advantage of China‘s overseas population even despite the One China policy, huh?
• Gennady Padalka – Former holder of the record for the longest time spent in space.
• Page Three girl – A woman who poses for topless photographs published in UK tabloid newspapers.
• Parking chair – Chairs placed on parking spaces to mark or reserve them for one
• 2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial – Involving a whole third of the entire male population.
• Slobodan Praljak – Bosnian Croat war criminal who took his own life rather than face his sentence.
• Project Ragtag – A curious, and kind of unknown, cancelled Star Wars video game projected by Uncharted creator Amy Hennig.
• Pruitt-Igoe – A housing project in St. Louis that consisted of 33 11-story apartment buildings. Design defects and vandalism led to its demolition after only 16 years.
• Greg Rasmussen – A very improvable tale of surviving in the African wilderness.
• Emile Ratelband – Dutch television nutter and “motivational” speaker who applied to legally change his age.
• A Rebel in Time
• Reverence – Granite whales diving into a sea of grass near the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream headquarters.
• S3RL – An Australian hardcore DJ known for incorporating Japanese pop culture (eg. anime, video games, manga, and hentai) into his songs. His name originated from the profane word arsehole, but shortened to arserl by him as a safer alternative and the name stuck, as he made the decision to make it his stage name.
• Yendri Sánchez – Serial event invader who was found dead in 2018, apparently as the result of kinky sex gone wrong.
• Ignaz Semmelweis – Was committed to an asylum because he said that washing your hands is good.
• Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers
• Shepseskare – Pretty ironic for an Ancient Egyptian king‘s name to slightly predict the name of a 16th century-English playwright and poet, huh?
• Smells Like Nirvana
• Sonderkommando photographs – Important photographic evidence for the Holocaust.
• Squaring the circle – It is impossible, using only compass and straightedge, to construct a square with the same area as a given circle. This problem occupied mathematicians for centuries.
• Stilyagi – A sub-culture during the Soviet era that was actually interested in topics from western culture.
• Drew Struzan – Perhaps the biggest Hollywood artist that You may never heard of.
• Nelson Sullivan – A pioneer of vlogging in the 1980s.
• Svalbard – Where it’s so cold that you’re not allowed to die there, as your body won’t decompose.
• Tabby’s Star – a.k.a. “WTF” (Where’s the Flux?) for its unexplained changes in brightness, leading to conspiracy theories of a Dyson sphere surrounding it.
• Tank Man – An unidentified man who achieved global recognition after standing in front, and blocking the procession of a column of tanks, the morning after the bloody suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
• Theranos – Fake blood test company that made billions in short order and collapsed just as quickly a decade later.
• Thumb twiddling – What people did to waste time before the Internet existed.
• Tiny Tim – A crooner with a 6’1″ tall and ghoulish appearance who sang in a falsetto voice and played a ukulele.
• Sergei Tretyakov (intelligence officer) – An alleged former Russian spy who defected to the United States in 2000. In 2008, he would co-written a book about Russian espionage activities after the end of the cold war.
• Unibrow – The presence of hair between the eyebrows (sometimes called a monobrow).
• State of Buenos Aires – An Argentine secessionist republic that was unfortunately founded 149 years before the September 11 attacks.
• U.S. Games – A game publisher from the Atari era that was actually owned by Quaker Oats.
• Varg Vikernes – Pioneer in both black metal and Neo-Nazism, a murderer, and as of recently, tabletop game creator.
• Voyager Golden Record – A compilation of sounds and images of humanity on a phonograph record made of gold-plated copper. It was sent to space in 1977 and is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth.
• VTuber – Anime meets streaming culture with lucrative and often rather sexual results.
• “We Are the Winners” – They came sixth.
• White Rabbit (comics) – Another one of Spider-Man‘s strangest villains.
• Wikipedia coverage of Donald Trump – A site talks about itself talking about a President.
• Volodymyr Zelensky – When you play the President of Ukraine in a Ukrainian TV show so well you actually become President of Ukraine in real life.
• Wernher von Braun

Pages removed due to deletion or merging

These pages got deleted for not being noteworthy enough, or were merged into other articles that were too usual to list.

• 10:08 – The time most watches in magazine and newspapers show.
• Ablutophobia – Fear of showering or any other form of bathing.
• Alien abduction insurance – As one insurance broker said, “Let’s face it – insurance is so tedious that if I can enlighten my dreary life with a bit of humor every now and again, I will.”
• Among Us chicken nugget – A Chicken McNugget resembling a video game character obtained from a meal relating to BTS which sold for almost US$100,000 on eBay.
• Apotheon – A video game whose graphics are based on ancient Greek art.
• Arm-Fall-Off-Boy – The first applicant to be rejected from the Legion of Super-Heroes. His superpower was the ability to temporarily detach either arm and use it as a club with the other.
• Bads – Like goods, but no one wants them; notable for being the word you’d come up with for this concept as a joke.
• Behind the sofa – Where young British children hid from menacing scenes in sci-fi TV, now recalled humorously and nostalgically by British adults.
• Booger – Slang for the partly solidified mucus from a human nose.
• Chronophobia – The fear of time.
• Criticism of Mother Teresa – Seriously? Yep, seriously. Her detractors include Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ali and devout Hindus.
• Danish flag rules – Why the only flag you can burn legally in Denmark is the Danish one.
• Descent from Adam and Eve – Formerly about people claiming to be able to trace such descent; now merged.
• Deep-fried Twinkies – America’s answer to the above (Deep-fried Mars bar).
• Endor Holocaust – Did the debris of the Death Star result in catastrophe for the friendly Ewoks?
• Eyre legend – A man who supposedly saved William the Conqueror‘s life during the Battle of Hastings.
• Evil Overlord List – How to avoid the movie clichés.
• Exploding donkey
• Exploding toads – An as-yet unexplained phenomenon observed in April 2005 in Germany and Denmark. Suggested as a possible weapons delivery system.
• Fictional chemical substance – Compounds and minerals that exist only in fiction.
• Five-minute hypothesis – Have we only been around for 5 minutes?
• Freedom Town, USA – A Fortnite map that was meant to promote Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2024. Guess who ended up winning the election.
• Roger Fuckebythenavele – Perhaps the first use of the word fuck.
• Galambosianism – A short-lived doctrine of intellectual property absolutism, which never caught on as an idea because, under its own laws, originator Joseph Andrew Galambos was the only person allowed to disseminate it.
• Garden gnome liberationists – Vive la révolution des gnomes!
• Grilled Cheese Aspiration – Something to do with the game Sims 2.
• Heaven’s Gate (religious group)– A relatively unknown story of alien cult…. that ended up in a mass suicide in 1997.
• How to keep an idiot busy – No description of article yet. Please return in five minutes.
• If it Had Happened Otherwise– A collection of Alternative History tales from the early 20th century. Notable for the participation of Winston Churchill as the author of a tale about the American Civil War.
• The Incredible Popeman
• Infinite Cat Project – Cats looking at cats looking at cats…
• International Flat Earth Research Society – A society, originally British, that holds the belief that the Earth is flat, not spherical.
• List of nontraditional bagpipe usage – Some unorthodox uses for the good ol’ Scottish lung.
• List of people with reduplicated names – …such as Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Neville Neville.
• List of political flops
• List of song titles phrased as questions
• Lyttle Lytton Contest – Like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but “Lyttler”.
• Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Tollemache – Leone [Sextus Tollemache]’s older brother, whose initials stand for Lyonel the Second.
• Makes caterpillars floppy – A gene in the Photorhabdus luminescens bacteria, controlling the production of a lethal toxin. Guess what it does.
• The Mad Pooper – An unidentified woman in Colorado Springs, CO repeatedly defecated in public while jogging.
• Methionylglutaminyl…serine – An actual name for a protein that is 64,060 letters long.
• Mull of Kintyre test – When can a human penis be shown on British television?
• Ninja–Russia relations – “Anti-Soviet activity by Ninjutsu Practitioners” would be quite the Jeopardy! category.
• Adnan Oktar – A very heavy story of Turkey’s strangest cult.
• Planet X637Z-43 – A planet covered in cannabis! Well, that’s what they want you to think.
• List of conspiracy theories § Predictive programming – According to conspiracy nuts, all dystopian science fiction are actually proposals for the “global elite“‘s “problem-reaction-solution” playbook.
• Pretending to be stupid – I’d put it in bold, but I’m too dumb.
• Proposed Canadian annexation of the Turks and Caicos Islands – First proposed in 1917.
• Proverbs commonly attributed to be Chinese – …although they’re probably not.
• Prime Number Shitting Bear – A Javascript web animation showing a cartoon bear producing prime numbers from its anus.
• A Rebel in Time – A Alternative History novel with a bizarre premise.
• Slutwave – From the same blog that brought you “chillwave”.
• The Smurfs and communism
• Snake bite chicken – Any venom with your chicken, sir?
• William Stirrat – A man who claimed to have written “Unchained Melody” under the pen name Hy Zaret, despite the fact Zaret was an actual person who did write the song.
• Suicide booth – A common feature in the world of tomorrow.
• Tubby the Dog – The only casualty of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
• Tim Tam Slam – An Australian method for drinking tea through Tim Tam biscuits.
• Tokyo Ghetto Pussy – To this day I still wonder to this article.
• Tooth Fairy Rule – Rule of thumb for writing science fiction.
• Unusual duels – Very well, balloons (or billiard balls, or sausages) at dawn!
• War of the Roses – The historical rivalry between Lancaster and York. Not to be confused with Wars of the Roses, the historical rivalry between Lancaster and York.
• War Thunder classified documents leaks – Wargamers will stop at nothing to make sure modern weapons are depicted perfectly – not even sharing top-secret military info.
• Witch Prohibition Act – Enacted in 1999 in Orissa
• WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER??? – RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, BABY!
• William Shatner’s musical career – redirected to a discography section for being non-neutral and poorly written, removed in Special:Diff/1056260466
• You can’t fight the Homestuck! – Regarding the song by Kylee Henke about the popular webcomic Homestuck.
• You forgot Poland – A paraphrased comment from President George W. Bush of the United States, made during the first presidential election debate on September 30, 2004.