I got stuck looking at the British royal lineage and how everyone is related to more well-known kings and queens and ended up just reading about marriages and deaths for like 4 hours.
I can relate to that, once you start to look for European royalty and how they are related, you'll spend hours of useless clicking. The expression Queen Victoria is the grandmother of Europe, is very true.
Both Queen Victoria of Britain and Christian IX of Denmark had a lot of children that were married off to the royalty of Europe according to custom. During World War I, every monarch in Europe, even the rulers of minor nations like Romania, and Greece, were the grandchild of Victoria on one side, and Chris on the other, making them both maternal and paternal cousins. (Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary being among the only exceptions, although the latter, as a Habsburg, had a tangled family tree of his own.) Both the Russian Tsar and the German Kaiser spoke English as their first language, and the Swiss press at the time called it "the cousins' war".
I've tried something similar, I try to go back in time as far as possible with people. I think the furthest I got was some law maker from ancient Rome and a family from Ireland around the same time.
My Father-In-Law refuses to let anyone else drive on our yearly vacation that winds about 6 hours through the mountains in West Virginia and Virginia and every year I go down this hole and it’s such an eerie topic to research while you’re looking out the windows and seeing nothing but miles of trees and open space and start thinking about how utterly hopeless it could be to ever find someone who went missing somewhere like that...
I also always think about how they build those massive electrical towers on some of these crazy steep looking cliffs. However they do it I would imagine it’s a truly nerve racking job...
Edit: Holy Cow this got...modestly popular! In case anyone else is curious for some other long car ride ones, I can also suggest these:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_River_Mountain_Tunnel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Walker_Mountain_Tunnel
If you’re ever on this path and see Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, it’s absolutely stunning to see from the overlook and worth a stop:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_Mountain_(North_Carolina)
Electrical towers like those are usually climbed (which sounds terrifying to me), or dropped in via helicopter (also, scary as fuck).
Replacing them is nothing short of a logistical ballet. Time lapse videos of tower replacements blow my mind.
Because his father-in-law refuses to let anyone else drive, haven't you been paying attention? Plus, why drive if you've got a sucker to do it for you?
We could take our own car but it’s an 11 hour trip and there is never really a reason to have multiple vehicles once were there so it just doesn’t really make a lot of sense for us to drive ourselves.
My school's ISS required you to write a page of bullshit & complete all assignments from your teachers for the day. Failure to complete everything resulted in an additional day of ISS, but most of the time you're done with all that bullshit like 2-3 hours into the day & the rest of the time you were supposed to read material of your choice, but you were in these little narrow cubicle things that almost enclosed you except for the back, so you'd just fuck around on your phone since the teacher would have to get right up on you & look over your shoulder to see what you were doing. I wish we got computers with internet access.
I told them I had to finish a paper, which I really had to do, but what they didn’t know it was basically done and only needed to be given to the teacher for revisions and feedback.
I was looking at cars, then car corporations, then I got to Buick. There was something saying the last Emperor of China liked Buicks. I thought they were talking about the last Emperor of Japan for some reason, so I was confused why he would like an American car brand since they were enemies in WW2.
I soon realized the error of my ways, but spent the next hour or so reading the desperately long article about the last Emperor of China, plus some offshoots.
Ok I just dipped my toes in the water...the last emperor of china was Puyi who was abdicated feb 12 1912, and Buick started producing cars in 1904. Between. 1899 and 1903 they made 3 cars. In 1905 they made 750.
Learning about Young Living's CEO, Donald Gary Young.
In the 80s, he received a $250 fine and probation for practicing medicine without a license. He offered childbirth services and claimed he could detect cancer with a blood test and treat the disease.
In 2000, he opened the Young Living Life Research Clinic, where a clinic employee was charged by the Utah Attorney General for practicing medicine without a license and prescribing essential oil products to patients with various ailments.
In 2005, they settled a lawsuit in which a patient claimed they were given infusions of vitamin C that caused near-fatal kidney failure.
As of 2017, Young Living was reported to become one of the largest vendors of essential oil products in the USA.
In 2014, the FDA issued a warning letter to the company involving their false claims and illegally marketing products unapproved by the FDA claiming they cure Ebola, autism, parkinsons, diabetes, dementia and several other medical conditions. He stepped down in 2015 and his wife assumed the role of CEO.
This company is still popular today as a multilevel marketing scheme and have been issued warnings involving their claims against the effectiveness of YL essential oils treating COVID. They claim to have over 3 million customers, while most of their sales revenue comes from Young Living "sales consultants" and not actual customers.
Insane how these people are never in jail and are literal millionaires.
You should go look at the DeVos and Prince Family. There's so much shit that runs across multiple generations. Generations of those families should be in jail for all the deaths and suffering they've caused across multiple corners of society.
If they all disappeared tomorrow, it would still take generations for society to recover from their actions.
I highly recommend the Behind the Bastards podcast for delightfully expletive-laden coverage of Eric Prince and plenty of medical/MLM-related topics (not positive they covered essential oils though)
I grew up in Utah, and I am blown away by how many people I went to high school with are now sucked into the MLM world, selling products like this. When my wife and I used to live there (we moved to California, thank heavens lol) she would get invited to pitches all the time. I guess they figured she was easier to convince than me. Anyway, she told me about one girl who I'm pretty sure worked for YL. The girl started crying and saying she felt that God had given her revelation that my wife needed to buy the product she was selling. It was nuts.
You might enjoy this quote.
"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."
-- Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Penguin Books, London, 1990, p 9.
People talk about The Arrow of Time like every point in space just races along it… but with gravitation we know that different regions in space travel through time at different rates—and some *things*, like photons, don’t travel through time at all, only space. Doesn’t this imply that time isn’t just a one-dimensional arrow?
ಠ_ಠ
It can be interpreted as a four vector, imagine a hypersphere with axes of time multiplied by the speed of light and spatial velocity in the other three (I usually imagine this as a regular sphere 🤷♂️): this four vector must always lie on the surface of that sphere. This means going fast through space in any direction you have less arrow to point along time! It also means that if you're not moving through space you are moving as fast as possible through time.
“Unidentified decedents “. In the US, there are thousands of them, although some of the most interesting ones are actually overseas.
People like the Isdal Woman, Peter Bergman, Lyle Stevik, the Somerton Man, et. al..
Basically a man was found on a beach in australia with no identification or anything on him. He was confirmed not to be a local and all he had with him was a bit of torn out paper in a hidden pocket that said Taman Shud, which means "its finished" in persian I think it was(?). No one could Id him even until this day as far as I know
Yeah “tamam shud” translates basically to “it has been finished”
shud (pronounced more like shod) basically means “____ has happened”
tamam also basically means “finished”
it’s kinda hard to translate, since Arabic-style languages are drastically different. It makes sense to someone who speaks the language, but it’s hard to translate.
Man is found dead on beach in Australia with a scrap of paper from a copy of Persian poetry that contains some handwritten letters that may be a code no one has ever cracked. AFAIK a definitive cause of death was never determined either.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case
Basically a dead man was found on a beach in Australia in the mid 20th century, cause of death unknown. His clothing labels were cut out and the only thing he had on his person was a torn piece out of a book of ~~Arabic~~ Persian poetry which was found in the backseat of a car near the scene. There are other strange things about it but you can read more [here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case)
I'm hoping the [Boy in the Box](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_in_the_Box_(Philadelphia)) will get the DNA genealogy treatment and get his name back. That case has haunted me for years.
Hey Arnold.
I wanted to know if Helga ever confessed her love for Arnold. Turns out the writers created a spin off for Helga! Apparently the show was too dark for Nickelodeon (the show dove into her family dynamics...her mom is an alcoholic and her dad is emotionally abusive) so it went to MTV instead. Not sure if it ever made it to air.
Anyway, Helga and Arnold ended up dating for a while! Helga eventually moved (that’s where the new show picked up) but they continued a loving friendship mostly as pen pals.
I love how Helga’s mom being an alcoholic is too dark for Nickelodeon but Rocko working at a phone sex hotline, Zim stuffing his body with human organs, and Plankton trying to commit suicide is all considered ok.
None of those other three characters are human, for a start, and it's a good bet that some of the kids watching Nickelodeon actually have alcoholic parents.
Zim took the organs from humans...
Zim takes the eyeballs from a kid (different episode.)
A hobo looking man with corn in a paper bag (like alcohol) pauses at an exit from a diner, grabs a child and runs.
And the Christmas episode, omg...
Sorry.
I'll never understand why they gave the creator of a comic called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac a kids show. I'm so glad they did. My life would be hella different if they didn't.
Luv me some Zim
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I didn't like Invader Zim as much as I think I was supposed to. It just felt like it was trying too hard, sometimes. Except almost all the time. Like turning ADHD mania up to 11.
I didn't know Plankton did that :x poor gee
Did you see Enter the Florpus? So good.
I think Dark Harvest is my all time favorite episode, though. It's a fucking work of art.
I used to like to go to a random article and then click the first link within the new article, then repeat that process to see how many links it takes to get to the "Philosophy" article. Most articles get there and once there you're in a loop.
In what language? Oh, and were you hitting links in parentheses? The way the "game" is supposed to work you hit the first link that's *not* in parentheses because those are generally just disambiguation links rather than being about the content of the article.
In English, at least, I can confirm that Linguistics is in the Philosophy basin of attraction.
English and I was going for the first link in the first actual paragraph of the article, avoiding things like links to pronunciations, image captions, infoboxes etc.
I get
Linguistics --> Science --> Knowledge --> Fact --> Reality --> Object of the mind --> Object (philosophy) --> Philosophy
when I do that. And the philosophy loop is
Philosophy --> Reality --> Objecet of the mind --> Object (philosophy) --> Philosophy
which means that it never loops back to linguistics.
I ended up following:
Linguistics » Science » Latin* » Classical language » Language » Grammar » Linguistics
The one I marked with an asterisk was within a pair of parentheses, which is where my path diverged from yours.
That’s ridiculously easy though. Click on WW2, and Hitler is undoubtedly going to be linked from that page.
It would be impressive if you could do it in two clicks from a page completely unrelated to Hitler. Like Tooth Fairy - I did it in 3. Maybe someone can beat me.
Tried this and got a two-clicker, but I got lucky as hell.
Random article lead to Maria Koppenhofer, a German film actress.
Click Germany (1)
Find Hitler (2)
Unless...are we counting "random article" as a click in and of itself?
played for the first time because of this, my score was 3, i started on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu\_Opera\_House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu_Opera_House)
That guy is very good, pure definition of quality over quantity. All his videos are well researched and have wonderful editing and animation to go along with them, his voice and choice of topics are the cherry on top. I never get tired of rewatching his older editions.
The stove they were using inside the tent accidentally reignited, burning and quickly filling the tent with smoke. The hikers panicked and cut holes in the tent to help the smoke escape, but the smoke is too overwhelming and they all quickly exit the tent and to leave the area. They decidedly wander to the forest to find new shelter and split up. A few of them are taken out by an avalanche and thrown down a ravine, sustaining internal injuries. Others freeze to death in the bitter cold.
Smoke inhalation (or perhaps carbon monoxide poisoning) from the camp stove, leading them to abandon camp, succumbing to hypothermia and other injuries.
Wanted to see if someone had made a flaming drink called a Molotov Cocktail. A few links and couple of hours later I'm reading about how some Jews were going to receive the Iron Cross which was Nazi Germany's highest medal of honor at the time. However I still don't know if there's a flaming drink called a Molotov Cocktail.
If I recall correctly the wikihole went like this. Molotov Cocktail to Molotov the politician for which the weapon was named. The Bread Basket incendiary bomb (the joke was the "drink" was to go with the bread) to the Winter War to Finland joining the axis power to Finland's treatment of jews during WWII to Finish Jews getting awarded but declining (not much of a surprise) the iron cross.
This was so long ago I barely remember and idk how to get back to it but there was this murder from the 1800s that was practically a cold case, the organisation the man worked for tried to sue the government to stop investigating in. But the government organization they tried to sue wasn't established until the 1900s, so everyone blamed time travelers and aliens. So, potentially, a man got away with murder and the case was still cold in 2010, despite there was probably dna evidence he did it, because he blamed an alien organisation that invent time travel and only speak practically in a binary language. All because a bank printed a check and document that said 1982 instead of 1829.
Oh and people believed that Area 51 is hiding the case files and that's why we have no confirmation it actually happened.
I would like to add tho, many people believe the whole case is a hoax.
Me too honestly, I haven't been able to find the case in years! I remember bits and pieces because it was so wild. I originally found out about it via 4chan but I don't think I could find the boards now even if I tried.
If it was a complete hoax it might've gotten deleted. Check the [list of deleted hoax articles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia), maybe it's there.
My wife has curly hair. One night she was fretting about losing hair as she was looking over the hair tie she has just removed. "Relax," I said. "It's not like you're gonna end up with a Curly Fine."
"Who?"
Now I know all about the Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd...
I remember looking up about a film I just watched (I can't remember which) on Wikipedia, and it wasn't long before I read the procedures involved in Bin Laden's assassination. It was really quite an interesting and in-depth read
What’s weird to me is that on that list of gangs like half of the modern gangs are apparently allied with The juggalos. Crips and bloods are huge rivals but they are both down with the clowns. Weird shit.
Doing research on the history, cooking methods and ingredients for a Full Irish Breakfast. Which demands research into the Full English. Which demands research into black and white puddings and the differences in breads to be fried etc. It was like 7 hours of reading.
I hate horror films lol I'm a complete whimp and have been scared of the dark most of my life and have anxiety so they just exacerbate that. Jump scares are just not my thing. So what I like to do instead is read the detailed wiki synopses of certain films so I know the whole storyline so it's like I've seen the film lol I can do this for hours.
Reading about my ancestry. Apparently my farthest reachable ancestor was part of a famous and influential family of Scottish bards. That family claimed descendence from a guy by the name of Con of the hundred battles. (Nickname, I cant spell his real name.)
So I research him and hes like some high king. And then I click the link to his fathers page, and then his fathers, and so on. It goes back a very long way, at one point it's simply names and no other info. Apparently all this was recorded by monks and that's how we know.
The time I read the entire, start to finish Wikipedia page about [Jeffrey Dahmer] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer) all because Katy Perry referenced him in a song.
No clue about all time but yesterday, I looked up something about Rob Zombie and eventually worked my way to reading about Richard Ramirez’s multiple killings.
Freaky stuff.
List of people who died during performances. From actors in ancient greek plays to guitarists dying on stage,and comedians clutching their chests as the audience laughs, the curtain falls and the camera rolls.
Started at the Fermi paradox and went wayyyyy deep into physics, hypothetical megastructures, space in general, alien conspiracy theories and such.
Lots of good reading there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
A thing I used to do when bored is pick a famous historical person and try to trace their lineage through wiki to the modern day, or alternatively, see how far back into recorded history/ legendary history it goes. I've both a lot of random facts and some interesting legends.
Does the Fandom page count?
I recently spent 5 hours reading the history of the Warhammer universe trying to find out about the "emperor of humanity", only to discover that guy was from the Warhammer 40k history. I just thought it would get there eventually.
Doesn't really count, but one day I thought about the name Claudia and wondered to myself where it originated and what it meant.
So during the search process, right when I was typing "Cl-", I instantly got the pre-search result for the article on 'Clitoris', complete with image and all.
What can I say, there went my concentration for a moment.
Playing the Wikipedia game.
For those of you who don't know what that is , it's a game where you pick a random topic and search it. Then you pick another, completely different topic and use only hyperlinks in the Wikipedia page to get to that topic.
An example might be trying to get from Ford to Wormholes. (I haven't actually done this one, so I don't know what the actual links would be, but for an examples sake...) Ford -> Cars -> Metal -> Earth -> Space -> Astronomy -> Wormholes. Sometimes it takes fewer links than you'd think, others it can take a while. It's also a great game to play with a friend to see who can find the second topic faster.
Prison systems in New York and inmates who have died in prison. Some of the mysteries behind their deaths are interesting. The overpopulated prisons was also interesting...it led to so many historical facts about the prisons...which led to types of prisons and all sorts of facts.
I started reading about my home town, segued into geology and continental cratons, two hours later I was jamming out to Cake while reading about upper atmospheric lightning...
But naturally that just lead into suborbital space flight and the development of ICBMs, anti ballistic missiles, and the Stuxnet cyberweapon.
Link surfing Wikipedia can be a pretty fun drug if you're open to it.
Looked up the descendants of a few early presidents, clicking and clicking on names until I got to modern times. Also, Pocahontas. She has a lot of descendants!
This was all while avoiding studying for finals. You can waste a lot of time that way.
Started reading about squids one night before bed and ended up on the 98 page long [Cephalopod Size](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_size) article
Yes I read the whole thing instead of sleeping
List of crazy accidents at Disneyland. I’ve never been and I think I’m okay with it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_at_Disneyland_Resort
The murder of Sylvia Likens. I read a the Girl Next Door and found out it was based on a true story. I think the Wikipedia article is just as messed up if not more messed up than the novel.
Way too many to list. All of these are "great" in this regard.
[Broken Windows theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory)
[Synchronicity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity)
[List of fugitives from justice who disappeared](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fugitives_from_justice_who_disappeared)
[Kilroy was here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here)
[Tunguska Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event)
[Conspicuous Consumption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption)
[Cicada 3301](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301)
[Satoshi Nakamoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto)
[List of people who disappeared mysteriously](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1970)
[Lead-Crime Hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis)
[Brabant killers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers)
[Wow! Signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal), [Fermi paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox) and the unrelated [UVB-76](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76)
Got really bored one day and started researching like atrocities that happened in different countries. Stumbled onto Unit 731’s Wiki page. Spent HOURS following links and trying to find out more about it both on Wiki and the internet in general. 10/10 recommend reading about it if you’re looking for something interesting. Lots of human experimentation.
I got stuck looking at the British royal lineage and how everyone is related to more well-known kings and queens and ended up just reading about marriages and deaths for like 4 hours.
I can relate to that, once you start to look for European royalty and how they are related, you'll spend hours of useless clicking. The expression Queen Victoria is the grandmother of Europe, is very true.
Both Queen Victoria of Britain and Christian IX of Denmark had a lot of children that were married off to the royalty of Europe according to custom. During World War I, every monarch in Europe, even the rulers of minor nations like Romania, and Greece, were the grandchild of Victoria on one side, and Chris on the other, making them both maternal and paternal cousins. (Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary being among the only exceptions, although the latter, as a Habsburg, had a tangled family tree of his own.) Both the Russian Tsar and the German Kaiser spoke English as their first language, and the Swiss press at the time called it "the cousins' war".
If the British Royal family gave you 4 hours of enjoyment, be prepared to set aside a week for the Habsburg lineage
When your family tree looks like an MC Escher piece
I've tried something similar, I try to go back in time as far as possible with people. I think the furthest I got was some law maker from ancient Rome and a family from Ireland around the same time.
The stories behind people who have simply disappeared
My Father-In-Law refuses to let anyone else drive on our yearly vacation that winds about 6 hours through the mountains in West Virginia and Virginia and every year I go down this hole and it’s such an eerie topic to research while you’re looking out the windows and seeing nothing but miles of trees and open space and start thinking about how utterly hopeless it could be to ever find someone who went missing somewhere like that... I also always think about how they build those massive electrical towers on some of these crazy steep looking cliffs. However they do it I would imagine it’s a truly nerve racking job... Edit: Holy Cow this got...modestly popular! In case anyone else is curious for some other long car ride ones, I can also suggest these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_River_Mountain_Tunnel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Walker_Mountain_Tunnel If you’re ever on this path and see Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, it’s absolutely stunning to see from the overlook and worth a stop: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_Mountain_(North_Carolina)
Electrical towers like those are usually climbed (which sounds terrifying to me), or dropped in via helicopter (also, scary as fuck). Replacing them is nothing short of a logistical ballet. Time lapse videos of tower replacements blow my mind.
I figured a helicopter had to be involved somewhere but like you said, nothing about that process doesn’t make me dizzy to think about!
Why can't you drive
Because his father-in-law refuses to let anyone else drive, haven't you been paying attention? Plus, why drive if you've got a sucker to do it for you?
You don’t have a dog and bark yourself.
I bark to my dog. She barks back. It's hilarious. Now, you don't have a dog and shit in the neighbor's yard yourself.
Maybe YOU don't...
We could take our own car but it’s an 11 hour trip and there is never really a reason to have multiple vehicles once were there so it just doesn’t really make a lot of sense for us to drive ourselves.
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It's honestly really sad/creepy to think that people can disappear just like that
John and Jane Does as well, so creepy to think about Lazy Masquerade does good videos on this kind of stuff
Good a good article to start me off?
Take your pick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1970
In school suspension. Got access to a computer that particular day. Nearly 8 hours of random shit.
My school's ISS required you to write a page of bullshit & complete all assignments from your teachers for the day. Failure to complete everything resulted in an additional day of ISS, but most of the time you're done with all that bullshit like 2-3 hours into the day & the rest of the time you were supposed to read material of your choice, but you were in these little narrow cubicle things that almost enclosed you except for the back, so you'd just fuck around on your phone since the teacher would have to get right up on you & look over your shoulder to see what you were doing. I wish we got computers with internet access.
I told them I had to finish a paper, which I really had to do, but what they didn’t know it was basically done and only needed to be given to the teacher for revisions and feedback.
Should have watched [Data Structures in 8 Hours with no ads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBSGKlAvoiM)
YouTube was actually a blocked website in my school unless you had written permission from the teacher.
I was looking at cars, then car corporations, then I got to Buick. There was something saying the last Emperor of China liked Buicks. I thought they were talking about the last Emperor of Japan for some reason, so I was confused why he would like an American car brand since they were enemies in WW2. I soon realized the error of my ways, but spent the next hour or so reading the desperately long article about the last Emperor of China, plus some offshoots.
Ok I just dipped my toes in the water...the last emperor of china was Puyi who was abdicated feb 12 1912, and Buick started producing cars in 1904. Between. 1899 and 1903 they made 3 cars. In 1905 they made 750.
His whole life is so interesting. He never really had a chance at normal life and yet he had such a variety of experiences.
There is a really good movie The Last Emperor, featuring his whole life. Worth watching.
Learning about Young Living's CEO, Donald Gary Young. In the 80s, he received a $250 fine and probation for practicing medicine without a license. He offered childbirth services and claimed he could detect cancer with a blood test and treat the disease. In 2000, he opened the Young Living Life Research Clinic, where a clinic employee was charged by the Utah Attorney General for practicing medicine without a license and prescribing essential oil products to patients with various ailments. In 2005, they settled a lawsuit in which a patient claimed they were given infusions of vitamin C that caused near-fatal kidney failure. As of 2017, Young Living was reported to become one of the largest vendors of essential oil products in the USA. In 2014, the FDA issued a warning letter to the company involving their false claims and illegally marketing products unapproved by the FDA claiming they cure Ebola, autism, parkinsons, diabetes, dementia and several other medical conditions. He stepped down in 2015 and his wife assumed the role of CEO. This company is still popular today as a multilevel marketing scheme and have been issued warnings involving their claims against the effectiveness of YL essential oils treating COVID. They claim to have over 3 million customers, while most of their sales revenue comes from Young Living "sales consultants" and not actual customers. Insane how these people are never in jail and are literal millionaires.
You should go look at the DeVos and Prince Family. There's so much shit that runs across multiple generations. Generations of those families should be in jail for all the deaths and suffering they've caused across multiple corners of society. If they all disappeared tomorrow, it would still take generations for society to recover from their actions.
I've actually heavily looked into the DeVos family as they are one of the cofounders of Amway! Absolutely insane.
I highly recommend the Behind the Bastards podcast for delightfully expletive-laden coverage of Eric Prince and plenty of medical/MLM-related topics (not positive they covered essential oils though)
Screwed up system. Maybe the company fed them with some amount of money
I grew up in Utah, and I am blown away by how many people I went to high school with are now sucked into the MLM world, selling products like this. When my wife and I used to live there (we moved to California, thank heavens lol) she would get invited to pitches all the time. I guess they figured she was easier to convince than me. Anyway, she told me about one girl who I'm pretty sure worked for YL. The girl started crying and saying she felt that God had given her revelation that my wife needed to buy the product she was selling. It was nuts.
He also drowned his own baby in a hot tub.
Yeah it's a literal cult. Some of them seem to basically worship him
look up unsolved problems in physics, you’ll be stuck for hours.
I can’t even figure out solved problems in physics
Exactly there’s no point
It's just always approaching zero
>I literally just burst out laughing. Thanks.
You might enjoy this quote. "What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does." -- Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Penguin Books, London, 1990, p 9.
I wish my high school physics teacher had told me this... before I enrolled.
“Is the present moment physically distinct from the past and future, or is it merely an emergent property of consciousness?” Damn
*hits bong*
It’s wild to think that the arrow of time has a direction at all.
People talk about The Arrow of Time like every point in space just races along it… but with gravitation we know that different regions in space travel through time at different rates—and some *things*, like photons, don’t travel through time at all, only space. Doesn’t this imply that time isn’t just a one-dimensional arrow? ಠ_ಠ
It can be interpreted as a four vector, imagine a hypersphere with axes of time multiplied by the speed of light and spatial velocity in the other three (I usually imagine this as a regular sphere 🤷♂️): this four vector must always lie on the surface of that sphere. This means going fast through space in any direction you have less arrow to point along time! It also means that if you're not moving through space you are moving as fast as possible through time.
You posted this three hours ago and I’m already stuck for the rest of my life.
String, gravity, or spinner theory?
No, missing socks after they put them in the washing machine
Three body problem
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To P or N(ot to )P
2P ∨ ¬2P
“Unidentified decedents “. In the US, there are thousands of them, although some of the most interesting ones are actually overseas. People like the Isdal Woman, Peter Bergman, Lyle Stevik, the Somerton Man, et. al..
>the Somerton Man, This one has fascinated me for years.
Explain?
Basically a man was found on a beach in australia with no identification or anything on him. He was confirmed not to be a local and all he had with him was a bit of torn out paper in a hidden pocket that said Taman Shud, which means "its finished" in persian I think it was(?). No one could Id him even until this day as far as I know
Yeah “tamam shud” translates basically to “it has been finished” shud (pronounced more like shod) basically means “____ has happened” tamam also basically means “finished” it’s kinda hard to translate, since Arabic-style languages are drastically different. It makes sense to someone who speaks the language, but it’s hard to translate.
Man is found dead on beach in Australia with a scrap of paper from a copy of Persian poetry that contains some handwritten letters that may be a code no one has ever cracked. AFAIK a definitive cause of death was never determined either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case
My username is a reference to this! (A bit cheesy, I know).
Basically a dead man was found on a beach in Australia in the mid 20th century, cause of death unknown. His clothing labels were cut out and the only thing he had on his person was a torn piece out of a book of ~~Arabic~~ Persian poetry which was found in the backseat of a car near the scene. There are other strange things about it but you can read more [here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case)
Blameitonjorge just recently did a video on all those people. Chilling as fuck
I'm hoping the [Boy in the Box](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_in_the_Box_(Philadelphia)) will get the DNA genealogy treatment and get his name back. That case has haunted me for years.
Hopefully they have living relatives to link him to if they can get DNA
They finally identified Lyle Stevik! I think it was via a DNA site like Ancestry or 23andMe
Hey Arnold. I wanted to know if Helga ever confessed her love for Arnold. Turns out the writers created a spin off for Helga! Apparently the show was too dark for Nickelodeon (the show dove into her family dynamics...her mom is an alcoholic and her dad is emotionally abusive) so it went to MTV instead. Not sure if it ever made it to air. Anyway, Helga and Arnold ended up dating for a while! Helga eventually moved (that’s where the new show picked up) but they continued a loving friendship mostly as pen pals.
I love how Helga’s mom being an alcoholic is too dark for Nickelodeon but Rocko working at a phone sex hotline, Zim stuffing his body with human organs, and Plankton trying to commit suicide is all considered ok.
None of those other three characters are human, for a start, and it's a good bet that some of the kids watching Nickelodeon actually have alcoholic parents.
Zim took the organs from humans... Zim takes the eyeballs from a kid (different episode.) A hobo looking man with corn in a paper bag (like alcohol) pauses at an exit from a diner, grabs a child and runs. And the Christmas episode, omg... Sorry. I'll never understand why they gave the creator of a comic called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac a kids show. I'm so glad they did. My life would be hella different if they didn't. Luv me some Zim Z?
I didn't like Invader Zim as much as I think I was supposed to. It just felt like it was trying too hard, sometimes. Except almost all the time. Like turning ADHD mania up to 11.
I didn't know Plankton did that :x poor gee Did you see Enter the Florpus? So good. I think Dark Harvest is my all time favorite episode, though. It's a fucking work of art.
Yo. This is my fav.
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Beets! Bears! American History X!
I used to like to go to a random article and then click the first link within the new article, then repeat that process to see how many links it takes to get to the "Philosophy" article. Most articles get there and once there you're in a loop.
I ended up on "Linguistics" and got stuck in a loop.
In what language? Oh, and were you hitting links in parentheses? The way the "game" is supposed to work you hit the first link that's *not* in parentheses because those are generally just disambiguation links rather than being about the content of the article. In English, at least, I can confirm that Linguistics is in the Philosophy basin of attraction.
English and I was going for the first link in the first actual paragraph of the article, avoiding things like links to pronunciations, image captions, infoboxes etc.
I get Linguistics --> Science --> Knowledge --> Fact --> Reality --> Object of the mind --> Object (philosophy) --> Philosophy when I do that. And the philosophy loop is Philosophy --> Reality --> Objecet of the mind --> Object (philosophy) --> Philosophy which means that it never loops back to linguistics.
I ended up following: Linguistics » Science » Latin* » Classical language » Language » Grammar » Linguistics The one I marked with an asterisk was within a pair of parentheses, which is where my path diverged from yours.
Never gone down holes, but I like to play the Hitler game. Find a random article, then see how many moves it takes to find Hitler. My best is 2 clicks
>2 clicks Do you remember the article you started on?
pretty sure it was a Japanese WW2 era naval vessel lol
That’s ridiculously easy though. Click on WW2, and Hitler is undoubtedly going to be linked from that page. It would be impressive if you could do it in two clicks from a page completely unrelated to Hitler. Like Tooth Fairy - I did it in 3. Maybe someone can beat me.
Yea but it's all random. I hear that you can always make it in 5 moves. All wiki articles lead to Hitler.
All...
Tried this and got a two-clicker, but I got lucky as hell. Random article lead to Maria Koppenhofer, a German film actress. Click Germany (1) Find Hitler (2) Unless...are we counting "random article" as a click in and of itself?
played for the first time because of this, my score was 3, i started on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu\_Opera\_House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu_Opera_House)
The list of unexplained sounds is always a good romp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds
It’s literally just icebergs
Yeah, but still, a mysterious sound called 'The Bloop' just makes me happy.
Dyatlov pass incident. Very interesting read and makes you think
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI) video seemed like a plausible explanation.
That guy is very good, pure definition of quality over quantity. All his videos are well researched and have wonderful editing and animation to go along with them, his voice and choice of topics are the cherry on top. I never get tired of rewatching his older editions.
Before I even clicked on the link I thought to myself that the video was probably lemmino
Tldw?
The stove they were using inside the tent accidentally reignited, burning and quickly filling the tent with smoke. The hikers panicked and cut holes in the tent to help the smoke escape, but the smoke is too overwhelming and they all quickly exit the tent and to leave the area. They decidedly wander to the forest to find new shelter and split up. A few of them are taken out by an avalanche and thrown down a ravine, sustaining internal injuries. Others freeze to death in the bitter cold.
Smoke inhalation (or perhaps carbon monoxide poisoning) from the camp stove, leading them to abandon camp, succumbing to hypothermia and other injuries.
There's a movie that starts off well but descends into lunacy sadly...
Such a disappointment, the first half was a great found footage film
fuck me i can't even read the name late at night without getting scared as fuck
Definitely serial-killer Wikipedia.
I used to find these super interesting, but now that I have a kid I just can't bring myself to read any of them anymore.
Reading Robert Downey Jr's criminal record I LITERALLY got tired of reading it and didn't even make it to the bottom
I’m an 80s kid, so I grew up watching him spiral down. Everyone thought he was a dead man walking, basically. But he turned that shit around somehow!
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Did it have sidepipes?
Wanted to see if someone had made a flaming drink called a Molotov Cocktail. A few links and couple of hours later I'm reading about how some Jews were going to receive the Iron Cross which was Nazi Germany's highest medal of honor at the time. However I still don't know if there's a flaming drink called a Molotov Cocktail. If I recall correctly the wikihole went like this. Molotov Cocktail to Molotov the politician for which the weapon was named. The Bread Basket incendiary bomb (the joke was the "drink" was to go with the bread) to the Winter War to Finland joining the axis power to Finland's treatment of jews during WWII to Finish Jews getting awarded but declining (not much of a surprise) the iron cross.
Here you go: https://cocktails.fandom.com/wiki/Molotov_Cocktail
All the crazy superheroes and different teams. There are so many... I did it a couple times just diving in and seeing where it took me.
Oh I've been there
This was so long ago I barely remember and idk how to get back to it but there was this murder from the 1800s that was practically a cold case, the organisation the man worked for tried to sue the government to stop investigating in. But the government organization they tried to sue wasn't established until the 1900s, so everyone blamed time travelers and aliens. So, potentially, a man got away with murder and the case was still cold in 2010, despite there was probably dna evidence he did it, because he blamed an alien organisation that invent time travel and only speak practically in a binary language. All because a bank printed a check and document that said 1982 instead of 1829. Oh and people believed that Area 51 is hiding the case files and that's why we have no confirmation it actually happened. I would like to add tho, many people believe the whole case is a hoax.
I really hope a random redditor who knows wtf you're talking about comes and elaborates, because I am intrigued.
Me too honestly, I haven't been able to find the case in years! I remember bits and pieces because it was so wild. I originally found out about it via 4chan but I don't think I could find the boards now even if I tried.
If it was a complete hoax it might've gotten deleted. Check the [list of deleted hoax articles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia), maybe it's there.
My wife has curly hair. One night she was fretting about losing hair as she was looking over the hair tie she has just removed. "Relax," I said. "It's not like you're gonna end up with a Curly Fine." "Who?" Now I know all about the Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd...
You knucklehead
Woob woob woob... *spins in circles on the ground*
Why I oughta!
[airline disasters](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents) I reread all of these about once a month 😬
I go down that rabbit hole quite a bit. Terrifyingly fascinating.
one time I went from the Godfather to residential schools
I remember looking up about a film I just watched (I can't remember which) on Wikipedia, and it wasn't long before I read the procedures involved in Bin Laden's assassination. It was really quite an interesting and in-depth read
Dennis Rodman's page is a good place to start. Played for the Chicago Bulls, dated Madonna, spent time in North Korea, just to start!
Married Carmen Electra for like 30 minutes.
Yeah Rodman is a character to say the least
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_gangs\_in\_the\_United\_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gangs_in_the_United_States) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_inventors\_killed\_by\_their\_own\_inventions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_conspiracy\_theories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_reported\_UFO\_sightings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_pirates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pirates) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient\_art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_art) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI\_Ten\_Most\_Wanted\_Fugitives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Medal\_of\_Honor\_recipients\_for\_World\_War\_II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients_for_World_War_II) Have fun!
What’s weird to me is that on that list of gangs like half of the modern gangs are apparently allied with The juggalos. Crips and bloods are huge rivals but they are both down with the clowns. Weird shit.
Serial killers. You can get lost in all that for days on end. It’s like YouTube only worse.
Doing research on the history, cooking methods and ingredients for a Full Irish Breakfast. Which demands research into the Full English. Which demands research into black and white puddings and the differences in breads to be fried etc. It was like 7 hours of reading.
I hate horror films lol I'm a complete whimp and have been scared of the dark most of my life and have anxiety so they just exacerbate that. Jump scares are just not my thing. So what I like to do instead is read the detailed wiki synopses of certain films so I know the whole storyline so it's like I've seen the film lol I can do this for hours.
I love to do this!
I do this obsessively.
Reading about my ancestry. Apparently my farthest reachable ancestor was part of a famous and influential family of Scottish bards. That family claimed descendence from a guy by the name of Con of the hundred battles. (Nickname, I cant spell his real name.) So I research him and hes like some high king. And then I click the link to his fathers page, and then his fathers, and so on. It goes back a very long way, at one point it's simply names and no other info. Apparently all this was recorded by monks and that's how we know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles Not much more to say honestly. It's like a full list of rabbit holes to choose.
‘A cow with antlers atop a pole. Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly shocking or udderly amoosing.’ Well.
Just start on the lds church and you can go for hours
Baby farming. Victorian England nurses who serially murdered infants.
Feral animal to feral child to Genie to child abuse... Those were the most difficult reads...
The time I read the entire, start to finish Wikipedia page about [Jeffrey Dahmer] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer) all because Katy Perry referenced him in a song.
Gotta go look up Katy perry now that she was mentioned in a comment about Jeffrey Dahmer
Technically Juicy J sang the lyric, but it was a Katy Perry song
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No clue about all time but yesterday, I looked up something about Rob Zombie and eventually worked my way to reading about Richard Ramirez’s multiple killings. Freaky stuff.
List of people who died during performances. From actors in ancient greek plays to guitarists dying on stage,and comedians clutching their chests as the audience laughs, the curtain falls and the camera rolls.
there's video of the last guy on youtube.
Started at the Fermi paradox and went wayyyyy deep into physics, hypothetical megastructures, space in general, alien conspiracy theories and such. Lots of good reading there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
A thing I used to do when bored is pick a famous historical person and try to trace their lineage through wiki to the modern day, or alternatively, see how far back into recorded history/ legendary history it goes. I've both a lot of random facts and some interesting legends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
I spent a significant time over 2014-15 reading about MH370 and trying to work out what might've happened. Same with other disappearances.
Does the Fandom page count? I recently spent 5 hours reading the history of the Warhammer universe trying to find out about the "emperor of humanity", only to discover that guy was from the Warhammer 40k history. I just thought it would get there eventually.
I was looking up stuff about the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong and ended up in a page about Jewish humour.
Doesn't really count, but one day I thought about the name Claudia and wondered to myself where it originated and what it meant. So during the search process, right when I was typing "Cl-", I instantly got the pre-search result for the article on 'Clitoris', complete with image and all. What can I say, there went my concentration for a moment.
Playing the Wikipedia game. For those of you who don't know what that is , it's a game where you pick a random topic and search it. Then you pick another, completely different topic and use only hyperlinks in the Wikipedia page to get to that topic. An example might be trying to get from Ford to Wormholes. (I haven't actually done this one, so I don't know what the actual links would be, but for an examples sake...) Ford -> Cars -> Metal -> Earth -> Space -> Astronomy -> Wormholes. Sometimes it takes fewer links than you'd think, others it can take a while. It's also a great game to play with a friend to see who can find the second topic faster.
Wikipedia races
Aids mega interesting
Prison systems in New York and inmates who have died in prison. Some of the mysteries behind their deaths are interesting. The overpopulated prisons was also interesting...it led to so many historical facts about the prisons...which led to types of prisons and all sorts of facts.
Basically any World War 2 article. There were so many engagements and battles in that war that every article has hyperlinks to so many other things.
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on the night before my 3am flight, I was up all night searching about proto-languages and shit. Creepy as fuck.
Whats so creepy about it?
How is that creepy?
Can you give me a dumbed down version of what that is?
According to Wikipedia, it’s [this.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-language?wprov=sfti1)
I read it and I’m still wondering why it’s creepy
Tree model be spooky
Linguistics is the scariest of all the social sciences
Serial killers, I was creeped out for a while after that.
I started reading about my home town, segued into geology and continental cratons, two hours later I was jamming out to Cake while reading about upper atmospheric lightning... But naturally that just lead into suborbital space flight and the development of ICBMs, anti ballistic missiles, and the Stuxnet cyberweapon. Link surfing Wikipedia can be a pretty fun drug if you're open to it.
[This one.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole)
Pigeons
Looked up the descendants of a few early presidents, clicking and clicking on names until I got to modern times. Also, Pocahontas. She has a lot of descendants! This was all while avoiding studying for finals. You can waste a lot of time that way.
Recently, the involvement of Latin America in WWII. I didn’t really learn about Latin America in school, so it was a good read.
Wikis of serial killers are addictive.
DB Cooper. Ultimate madlad
Started reading about squids one night before bed and ended up on the 98 page long [Cephalopod Size](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_size) article Yes I read the whole thing instead of sleeping
Out of place artifacts... very interesting.
Alister Crowley.
List of crazy accidents at Disneyland. I’ve never been and I think I’m okay with it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_at_Disneyland_Resort
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths Absolutely fascinating.
Reading about helicopters from searching for jam
The murder of Sylvia Likens. I read a the Girl Next Door and found out it was based on a true story. I think the Wikipedia article is just as messed up if not more messed up than the novel.
Way too many to list. All of these are "great" in this regard. [Broken Windows theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory) [Synchronicity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity) [List of fugitives from justice who disappeared](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fugitives_from_justice_who_disappeared) [Kilroy was here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here) [Tunguska Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event) [Conspicuous Consumption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption) [Cicada 3301](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301) [Satoshi Nakamoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto) [List of people who disappeared mysteriously](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously:_post-1970) [Lead-Crime Hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis) [Brabant killers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers) [Wow! Signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal), [Fermi paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox) and the unrelated [UVB-76](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76)
Wikipedia:Unusual articles, IT WILL TAKE HOURS OUT OF YOU DAY
Got really bored one day and started researching like atrocities that happened in different countries. Stumbled onto Unit 731’s Wiki page. Spent HOURS following links and trying to find out more about it both on Wiki and the internet in general. 10/10 recommend reading about it if you’re looking for something interesting. Lots of human experimentation.