Colchis: Mildly Interesting Articles
This is a homage to the Wikipedia:Unusual articles page, a collection of weird, random an unexpected Wikipedia articles, which helped to cure my ocasional boredom during the last few years of school. I will try to not include any articles of the original Unusual articles page, but I cant promise anything.
| Article | Summary |
|---|---|
| Missing steel bore cap | A manhole cover that vanished during a U.S. nuclear test and for a time held the title of the fastest manmade object until it got beaten in 2024 by the Parker Solar Probe. The estimated velocity is around 58km/s. |
| Loukanikos the riot dog | Loukanikos was a stray dog that got famous for participating regularly in athenean anti-austarity protests. Interestingly not the only riot dog. |
| Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir | A sumerian stone tablet documenting the poor quality copper of Ea-nāṣir. Oldest complaint letter found to this day and somewhat of an internet meme. |
| The Bielefeld Conspiracy | Do you know anybody from “Bielefeld”? Have you ever been to “Bielefeld”? Do you know anybody who has ever been to “Bielefeld”? |
| Los Alamos chess | A simplified variant of chess played on a 6x6 board. Also known as anti-clerical chess due to the lack of bishops and the first chess-esq game played by computers. |
| Chicago rat hole | A rodent shaped hole in the streets of Chicago, that became a place of pilgrimage. Offering such as coins, flowers, Pokemon cards and estradol pills where made by visitors. |
| Peat cutting machines in Germany (low quality) | A list of low quality images depicting german peat cutting machines. Technically a category and no article, but I mean … common. |
| ISO 3103 | Standardization is a pretty sensible thing, although it can look pretty apsurd at times (winner of the 1999 Literature IG Nobel Prize). |