9 of the Weirdest Wikipedia Pages We've Ever Seen
With the right state of mind, enough time on your hands, and a can-do attitude/darkened worldview, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into hours spent amongst the site's weird, bizarre, and morbidly fascinating black holes. Making it virtually impossible to uncover all of the site's many dark and dusty cornersbut damned if we didn't try.
We'll probably never be able to find them all, but we can at least compile the strangest of the strange. Here are some of the weirdest, most bizarre Wikipedia entries we've ever laid eyes on. Think you've got a better one to share? Don't hold back, friend. We're here to learn.
A self explanatory name if ever there was one. As Wikipedia so delicately puts it, the Euthanasia Coaster is a "roller coaster designed to kill its passengers." How does a coaster kill its passengers? By theoretically being the 10th tallest structure ever constructed. At about a third of a mile high, 24 passengers would spend a solid two minutes traveling up to the top of the first and only hill. Then, the 500-meter drop would carry passengers at 220 miles-per-hour through a series of smaller and smaller loops, which would ensure that the deadly 10 g dose of force would never quite let up.
Of course, a real, life(death?)-sized version doesn't actually exist; for now, it's merely a concept/scale model born of Julijonas Urbonas, a doctoral student at the Royal College of Art in London and owner of the rhymingest damned name you ever did see. Apparently, Julijonas Urbonas got the idea from a "description of the 'ultimate' roller coaster as one that 'sends out 24 people and they all come back dead.'"
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A spite house is exactly what it sounds like. Do you hate your neighbor? Do you wish to permanently spite them by impeding their light, space, and any otherwise general enjoyment they might find within their living quarters? Then you want to build a spite house! For example, in the image you see above, that little plot of land was all one brother left to the other of their father's estate while the latter brother was at war. When the veteran came home to find that his scheming sibling had left him a plot of land just small to be near-unusable, he built a skinny little structure just tall enough to block his bro's light and ruin his good view.
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9 of the Weirdest Wikipedia Pages We've Ever Seen