#oh wikipedia

[elucubrare]

stellar example there

[ryoyuftw]

For some reason I just read the Swedish wikipedia page for ski jumping and found an interesting new fact: the world record is held by Stefan Kraft from Australia😂

[elucubrare]

@ whoever wrote the Clovis I wiki article: i love you.

[elucubrare]

An epitaph in St Michael's Church, Coventry, written circa 1705, read, in part:

Here lyes an old toss'd Tennis Ball: Was racketted, from spring to fall, With so much heat and so much hast, Time's arm for shame grew tyred at last.

--The tennis wikipedia article

[elucubrare]

Candies to soothe the throat date back to 1000 BC in Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, when they were made from honey flavored with citrus, herbs, and spices.[citation needed] In the 19th century, physicians discovered morphine and heroin, which suppress coughing at its source—the brain. 

that feels like a lot of time to skip over, wow!

[elucubrare]

“As this 'history' also suggests that the royal couple were "demons whose heads were seen to leave their bodies and roam the palace at night," its veracity is heavily questioned.”

Ancient history writing in a nutshell! (Wikipedia on Procopius)

[elucubrare]

more gleanings from the Pepin the Short wiki article: 

1. who chose these fonts! these colors! how is it so UGLY! 

2. please let us all take in the name of the Duke of Aquitaine, Waiofar, also spelled Waifar, Waifer or Waiffre, who is either an anime lady or a cracker. 

[elucubrare]

The fact that Charles was crowned as Charles XII does not mean that he was the 12th king of Sweden by that name. Swedish kings Erik XIV (1560–1568) and Charles IX (1604–1611) gave themselves numerals after studying a mythological history of Sweden. He was actually the 6th King Charles.

oh no