Welcome to Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club (CFWC)an absurdity hub.
Cool Freaks' Wikipedia Club is the leading Facebook group for delivering the weirdest Wikipedia articles, from Tarrare to 52-hertz whale, to the top of every member's Facebook News Feeds. No longer will Belphegor's Prime and Potoooooooo languish in the doldrums of obscurityinstead, they can reach a new audience hell-bent on trivial pursuits and complete world knowledge.
Since its founding a year ago on 24 September 2013, the group has grown from a humble abode of esoterica to a sizable community of nearly 32,000 members. As the group has grown, so has its moderation, ensuring that the future of Cool Freaks sticks to its founding ideal of a "safe-space" for its thousands membersmany of whom are queer, transgender or people of color.
While reposts (or "retoasts") abound for regularsList of animals with fraudulent diplomas, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, and List of lists of listsnew gems like South-up map orientation and Impossible colors surface every day, new and sparkling treasures from the arcane depths.
To help introduce a wider audience to our community, we've listed below some old favorites and recent posts shared equally among both the membership and the moderation.
Not a terrifying new sexual act but an incident of anomalous weather. For several minutes in Bath County, Kentucky on March 3rd, 1876, pieces of meat, appearing to be beef (although some claim it tasted like "mutton, venison, or lamb"), rained down on an approximately 100 by 50-yard area. The meat was later identified as either lung tissue from a horse or a human infant, yet many theories linger over the identity and origin of the flesh related weather. [image via Super I.T.C.H.]
The queen of the Balobedu people, from northern South Africa. The Rain Queen is believed to have powers over the clouds and precipitation. Since 2005, the throne has been empty, due to controversy over the illegitimate children of the most recent Rain Queen, the late Makobo Modjadji, and criticism of Modjadji's "modern" lifestyle.
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22 of the Coolest, Freakiest Articles on Wikipedia