Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of December 29, 2025

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Bill Montgomery was a conservative activist. He co-founded the conservative political organization Turning Point USA with Charlie Kirk. He became Kirk's mentor and worked behind the scenes during the organization's early formation. He died of complications from COVID-19.

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785 points

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90 Comments

Ken Anderson is one of the very few prosecutors in American history to face any criminal consequences for wilful misconduct. He served five days of a 10-day sentence for tampering with evidence, resulting in the wrongful conviction of a man who spent the next 25 years in prison.

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283 points

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Estimates of the number of deaths attributable to the Soviet revolutionary and dictator Joseph Stalin vary widely. The scholarly consensus affirms that archival materials declassified in 1991 contain irrefutable data far superior to sources used prior to 1991, such as statements from emigres.

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339 points

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Later in life, French actress and model Brigitte Bardot often made controversial and inflammatory comments about Muslims, Islam, race mixing, immigration, homosexuals, Sarah Palin, Jewish rituals, the #MeToo movement, and hunters.

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141 points

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In Nazi Germany, transgender people were prosecuted, barred from public life, forcibly detransitioned, and imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. Though some factors were considered, transgender people were largely stripped of legal status by the Nazi state.

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1605 points

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339 Comments

El Satario is the name of one of the earliest surviving pornographic films. Based on the fashions and technology depicted, it was likely produced in Argentina around 1907, and includes possibly the first use of extreme close-ups of genitalia.

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138 points

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Timothy Hennis is a U.S. Army soldier who murdered a woman and her two children in 1985. He was convicted of the crime in a civilian court, but acquitted on appeal. In 2006, DNA tests confirmed that Hennis was guilty. The military called him out of retirement and court-martialed him for the murders.

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683 points

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Christopher Scarver is an American convicted killer. He was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of the murder of Steve Lohman in 1990. On November 28, 1994 he murdered two infamous inmates, Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson, earning him two additional life sentences.

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2030 points

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Chicken eyeglasses are intended to prevent feather pecking and cannibalism. One variety used rose-colored lenses to help prevent a chicken wearing them from recognizing blood on other chickens, which may increase the tendency for abnormal injurious behavior.

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38 points

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The Hart family murders was a murder–suicide. Jennifer Hart and her wife, Sarah Hart, killed themselves and their six adopted children. Jennifer intentionally drove their sports utility vehicle off a cliff, killing everyone in the family.

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2719 points

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Luanda, Angola's capital, is home to roughly a third of all Angolans, with recent estimates placing its population around 10 million. It is the world's largest Portuguese-speaking capital outside of Brazil.

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553 points

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Transmisogyny is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny as experienced by trans women and transfeminine people. The term was coined by Julia Serano in her 2007 book Whipping Girl to describe a particular form of oppression experienced by trans women.

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570 points

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Rio Tinto in Spain is an acidic river in Spain heavily polluted with heavy metals. Ore extraction has happened on and off for about 5,000 years and it's unclear how much contamination predates or is independent of human activity.

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120 points

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Irish Travellers are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. Despite sometimes being incorrectly referred to as "Gypsies", Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Romani people, who are of Indo-Aryan origin.

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1085 points

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308 Comments

Google is part of Project Nimbus, providing Israel with AI, cloud, and ML services, with much criticism over potential human rights abuses of Palestinians. Employees protesting its military use were fired. Google Ads and contracts have also been linked to Israeli campaigns affecting Gaza and UNRWA.

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9 points

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Up to half of the world's population is infected by Toxoplasmosis gondii, but have no symptoms. In the United States, approximately 11% of people have been infected, while in some areas of the world this is more than 60%

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23 points

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What can I do about my writing plagiarized on Wikipedia?

(self.wikipedia)

91 points

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Ifthekar Jaman was one of the first British people to travel to Syria to join ISIS. He was killed in December 2013 (in probably his first battle), but not before convincing his cousin and some of his friends back in England to join too and go off to what would be their deaths in Syria.

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1010 points

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The City of Industry is a city in the San Gabriel Valley in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is almost entirely industrial, containing over 3,000 businesses employing 67,000 people, with only 264 residents as of the 2020 census.

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112 points

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Does the level of rigidity vary so much between versions on Wikipedia?

(self.wikipedia)

9 points

r/wikipedia

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The third result when the term "Cookie Monster" is typed into the searchbar is the article for Death Metal

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149 points

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John Bradshaw who was the first man to really try and have executed a King (Charles I) for crimes against his people, said as his died from natural causes that he would have gladly done it all over again.

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34 points

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Sarah Rector was an American oil magnate since childhood. Under the Treaty of 1866, due to birthright as a Black grandchild of Creek Indians born before the American Civil War, she received an allotment. It was surprisingly discovered to be oil-rich and produced over US$300 per day.

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51 points

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The parameters of space law include space exploration, liability for damage, weapons use, rescue efforts, environmental preservation, information sharing, new technologies, and ethics

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4 points

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