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May 25 2020: Cannonball Run Challenge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonbal…

May 26 2020: Redemption movement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemptio…

May 27 2020: Tom show en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_show?…

May 28 2020: Mr. Big (police procedure) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Big_(…

May 29 2020: Strawman theory, another sovcit page. I’ve been really interested in the legal basis for their ideas and it turns out it’s all bullshit? Who would’ve thought

May 30 2020: David Wynn Miller. Sorry for all the Sovcit stuff but this is a crazy rabbit hole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wyn…

May 31 2020: High Arctic Relocation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arct…

June 1 2020: Police riot. Turns out there’s a pretty established history of cops starting/escalating riots out of peaceful protests
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_ri…

June 2 2020: Rampart scandal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_s…

June 3 2020: Monopoly on violence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_…

June 4 2020: Dale Farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Farm…

June 5 2020: Noble Cause Corruption. Police really love invoking this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_cau…

June 6 2020: Bright Young Things. I was amazed because this page links to maybe 200 supposedly famous historical figures and I had only heard of Evelyn Waugh! I’m convinced this is a prank because that’s the only way i’ll accept that I don’t know something en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_yo…

June 7 2020: Lynwood Vikings, an alleged white supremacist police gang en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_V…

June 8 2020: Contempt of cop en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_…

June 9 2020: Psychedelic therapy. I don’t think I ever realized how well established psychedelics are for treating complex PTSD?? It seems like MDMA may even be legalized for this use soon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedel…

June 10 2020: Cockerham bribery case. I’m honestly surprised that Trump hasn’t pardoned these guys lmao en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockerham…

June 11 2020: Homomonument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomonum…

June 12 2020: Paris Commune en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Com…

June 13 2020: sorry I was playing Skyrim all day

June 14 2020: Cape to Cairo Railway which i guess was Cecil Rhodes’ life goal in addition to terrorizing as many black people as possible en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_to_C…

June 15 2020: Thomas(ine) Hall en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas(in…

June 16 2020: Eleno de Céspedes, a black, Muslim, intersex person who May have been the first female(??) Surgeon in europe. Very similar to the last article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleno_de_…

June 17 2020: French Resistance. Colonialism BAD (theaters included French Indochina and North Africa) but it is really fascinating to learn about how a government in exile managed to seize power en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Re…

June 18 2020: sorry i was playing Skyrim lol

June 19 2020: Pump and dump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_…

June 20 2020: Ernst Thälmann en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Th%…

June 21 2020: Bob Richards. Very little of this article is devoted to how he ran a fascist presidential campaign en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richa…

June 22 2020: Harry Connick Sr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Con….?wprov=sfti1

June 23 2020: Rosewood massacre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_…

June 24 2020: Microsurgery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsurg…

June 25 2020: UK undercover policing relationships scandal. This should’ve been a much bigger story in the states en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_underc…

June 26 2020: Theodicy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy?…

June 27 2020: Flying ointment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_oi…

June 28 2020: The Paranoid Style in American Politics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paran…

June 29 2020: Indiana Klan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_K…

June 30 2020: Memorial Day Massacre of 1937. I really feel like this page should be 5 times as long en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_…

July 1 2020: List of Fake News Websites en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f…

July 2 2020: New Chronology, which apparently Garry Kasparov believes lmaooo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chron…

July 3 2020: Lovesickness en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovesickn…

July 4 2020: Adriaan Vlok, certified psychopath en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_V…

July 5 2020: Counting coup. I can’t find it but someone did a really cool thread the other day with videos/pictures of plains Indians currently doing this to cops
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_…

July 6 2020: sorry I forgot!!

July 7 2020: Homunculus argument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculu…

July 8 2020: Alchemy and Chemistry in the Medieval Islamic World en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_a…

July 9 2020: Bruce Edward Ivins. I’m gonna go ahead and say right now that the military conspired to execute and pin the 2001 anthrax attacks on Iraq and the FBI wasn’t aware of that scheme which is why this case is so murky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edw…

July 10 2020: Leopold and Loeb. These guys tried to commit the perfect crime but were actually incredibly stupid and were caught within a week en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_a…

July 11 2020: Morality Play, or the medieval equivalent of relationship tik toks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_…

July 12 2020: Warg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warg?wpro…

July 13 2020: Mari Native Religion. From my intense wikipedia research this is only European pagan religion that survived Christianity in any meaningful sense

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Nati…

July 14 2020: Michael Malloy. A classic but I’m sure many of you haven’t heard of this yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_M…

July 15 2020: Armenian mythology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_…

July 16 2020: Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg_and…

July 17 2020: John Balcerzak. Huge trigger warning so read the excerpt I posted before proceeding. Anyway police unions are one of the biggest threats to democracy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balc…

July 18 2020: Fearsome critters en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearsome_…

July 19 2020: 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone. I was wondering if hurricanes (or the equivalent since I know different locations have different names for it) could happen over the Great Lakes and the answer is YES but it happened only once??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Lake…

July 20 2020: Northern Ireland flags issue. Northern Ireland really seems like one of the saddest places on earth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_…

July 21 2020: Schmidt sting pain index. Thinking about this after binging the videos of the guy who catches tropical wasps and stings himself for content en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_s…

July 22 2020: State of Scott en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_…

July 23 2020: Saccharin. I was wondering if there are any sugar substitutes that are actually good and discovered that sweet and low is a byproduct of coal tar. So that’s gross en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin…

July 24 2020: Tsakonian language, a very rare and endangered language that is only spoken in a very tiny, isolated geographic area. It’s the only extant offshoot of ancient Doric Greek and is not mutually intelligible with modern Greek en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakonian…

July 25 2020: Legislative violence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislati…

July 26 2020: Martin Heemeyer. I didn’t realize the boogaloos were as prevalent as they actually are and they got their worrisome motto “i’ve become unreasonable” from this nutjob
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_He…

July 27 2020: List of “-gate” scandals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%…

July 28 2020: List of methanol poisoning incidents en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m…

July 29 2020: Mary Read. I’m almost done with Black Flag and this made me think like: what pronouns do we use to discuss people like Mary or Mulan, who dressed up as the opposite gender for occupational purposes?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Read…

July 30 2020: Sinecure. Many of these jobs still exist in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure?…

July 31 2020: Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, or wtf is Catholicism part 10374730 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_…

August 1 2020: Anna Bågenholm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_B%C3…

August 2 2020: Rainbow (ride). Carnival/roller coaster ride wikipedia is nuts. They have lists of every carnival ride model ever created like they’re Stradivarius violins

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_(…

August 3 2020: List of oldest known surviving buildings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o…

August 4 2020: Harry Kendall Thaw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Ken…

August 5 2020: Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes and Marsh Arabs, who were displaced

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Ara…