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Years of scouring the internet, led me to some of the weirdest Wikipedia articles and lore about the infamous site, so I might as well share it with you.

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A $999.99 iphone app that did nothing sold 8 copies. When the developer released a version that actually did something, people gave it bad reviews.
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Canada has a jail for polar bears. Repeat offenders get longer sentences. No meals.
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A payphone 12 miles from the nearest paved road became famous because strangers kept calling it. People camped out to answer. It got a memorial plaque. They removed the plaque too.
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Britain designed a nuclear landmine that was kept warm by live chickens. It was originally called brown bunny.
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An entomologist got stung by dozens of insects and reviewed every sting like a fine wine. By the end he was questioning his own project.
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It's a slice of toast between two slices of bread. wikipedia gave it an infobox, a calorie count, and a comparison to modern art.
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New Mexico's senate unanimously voted to make psychiatrists testify in a two-foot wizard hat, a fake beard and a wand. The bailiff also had to hit a gong.
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Napoleon tried to cheat at chess three times. The guy hiding inside the chess robot flipped the board.
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A bear was drafted into the polish army, made corporal, and picked up a coffee habit.
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8 million people watched. Hundreds called in for growing tips. The BBC stayed in character.
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Sports illustrated made up a pitcher. The Mets gave him a locker.
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Alt captions: Lost his head in 1945. Still out here headlining festivals.The town took one look at a headless chicken and said: party games.
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It rained meat in Kentucky in 1876. science has narrowed it down to vultures.
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A journalist invented the history of the bathtub as a joke in 1917. it ended up in reference books.
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she convinced the king's surgeon she was giving birth to rabbits. meanwhile her husband had spent the whole month buying rabbits.
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A newspaper reported unicorns, tiny zebras and bat people living on the moon. then the telescope conveniently burned down. they never retracted it.
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The Australian army brought machine guns to fight a flock of birds. the birds won.
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The man who created sherlock holmes got outsmarted by a 9 year old, a 16 year old, and some hatpins.
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The crew abandoned this ship in 1931. nobody told the ship. it kept showing up for 38 years.
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A volcano was heard 3,000 miles away. sailors 40 miles out had their eardrums burst. the shockwave circled the planet three and a half times.
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