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The OGBoards Wikipedia Thread

Wow, that video is crazy. I don't know enough about physics to know the practical applications but would be interested in seeing how something like -1/12 makes more sense than a number approaching infinity.
 
This page blows my mind every time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

There are great nuggets like this:
"Medieval Europeans did not believe Earth was flat; in fact, from the time of the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, belief in a spherical Earth remained almost universal among European intellectuals. As a result, Christopher Columbus's efforts to obtain support for his voyages were hampered not by belief in a flat Earth but by valid worries that the East Indies were farther than he realized.[116] If the Americas had not existed, he would surely have run out of supplies before reaching Asia."
 
HailToTheDeacons said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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RIP Kruger

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KickballDeac said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
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Coward, Lucas, and Bergersen were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression and died in the positions indicated by the diagram. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.

:eek:
 
Today, tomorrow, and next week will be good days to keep this thread bumping for those at work

Apparently India has a thriving underground moonshine business, which sometimes results in bouts of mass methanol poisioning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methanol_poisoning_incidents#India

A few of these have their own pages:

1981 Karnataka liquor deaths
1992 Odisha liquor deaths
2008 Karnataka-Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy
2009 Gujarat alcohol posionings
2011 Sangrampur methanol tragedy
2015 Mumbai alcohol poisoning incident
 
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