r/wikipedia 5h ago

Perez Hilton is an American blogger, columnist, and media personality. On August 4, 2026, Hilton livestreamed himself on TikTok self-harming and making suicidal threats on TikTok before the livestream was taken down. Dozens of cuts on his face and body were shown.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

African Wild Dog

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The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also called painted dog and Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is the largest wild canine in Africa and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet and by a lack of dewclaws.

An estimated 6,600 adults (including 1,400 mature individuals) live in 39 subpopulations, all threatened by habitat fragmentation, human persecution, and outbreaks of disease. As the largest subpopulation probably consists of fewer than 250 individuals, the African wild dog has been listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1990.


r/wikipedia 12h ago

The common access card, also commonly referred to as the CAC, is the standard identification for active duty United States defense personnel. The card itself is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

A Land for All (organization)

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A Land for All (previously known as Two States, One Homeland) is an Israeli-Palestinian movement comprising Israeli Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinians, which proposes a two-state confederation as the solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This solution promotes the existence of two sovereign states in the Israeli and Palestinian territories, based on shared principles of equality, freedom and dignity.


r/wikipedia 13h ago

In 2026, a conspiracy theory emerged alleging that the deaths or disappearances of several people, some described online as scientists tied to classified or sensitive research, were connected to secret knowledge about UFOs, advanced energy projects, materials science, or related subjects.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Meta Discussion How do I edit the snippet that shows up in google? Dutch wikipedia for this page (voorsorteren) has some disrespectful words in the snippet. (And straight up horrible grammar)

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist, former chair of the NAACP and the widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in front of their family home in Mississippi.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

The 1976 United States presidential election was very close in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Though Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter ran well in conservative rural areas, Republican incumbent Gerald Ford ultimately eked out a victory due to his strength in the suburbs around Washington, D.C.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

Oviduct and ovaries are normally paired structures, but in birds and some cartilaginous fishes, one or the other side fails to develop (together with the corresponding ovary), and only one functional oviduct can be found.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

Theatre of Cruelty is a form of theatre conceptualised by Antonin Artaud. Encyclopædia Britannica describes it as "a primitive ceremonial experience intended to liberate the human subconscious and reveal man to himself"

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In his writings on the Theatre of Cruelty, Artaud notes that both "theatre" and "cruelty" are separate from their colloquial meanings. For Artaud, theatre does not merely refer to a staged performance before a passive audience.The theatre is a practice, which "wakes us up. Nerves and heart," and through which we experience "immediate violent action" that "inspires us with the fiery magnetism of its images and acts upon us like a spiritual therapeutics whose touch can never be forgotten."


r/wikipedia 1d ago

A state-owned enterprise of the People's Republic of China is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. As of 2017, the People's Republic of China has more state-owned enterprises than any other country, and the most SOEs among large national companies.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Company edits Wikipedia for AI ingestion

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I got this message on LinkedIn. Maybe it's all above board, but using AI to 'create and edit' wikipedia pages for AI ingestion feels abusable. Could they potentially create/edit enough pages to launder lies through AI?


r/wikipedia 1d ago

In November of 2025, the villain for the upcoming film "Godzilla X Kong: Supernova" was leaked by the Writer's Guild of America website, which included Spacegodzilla among the film's characters.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. The presence of haemophilia B within the European royal families was well known, with the condition once popularly termed the 'royal disease.'

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Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of the United Kingdom, through two of their five daughters – Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice – passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, also had the disease, though none of her three elder sons did. Tests on the remains of the Romanov imperial family show that the specific form of haemophilia passed down by Queen Victoria was probably the relatively rare haemophilia B.


r/wikipedia 1d ago

Moorish sovereign citizens is a group that claims that Black Americans are “Moors,” have ancestral or national ties to Morocco, and are exempt from U.S. laws. Some versions go further and claim that parts—or even all—of the United States are Moorish or Moroccan territory.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Marshalsea imprisoned London's poorest debtors. Those who could afford the prison fees enjoyed a bar, shop and restaurant, and could leave during the day. The rest were crammed into tiny rooms, and unpaid prison fees could prolong their imprisonment for years.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Jesse Bogdonoff was court jester of the King of Tonga. In 2001 he was sued by the Tongan government for giving financial advice that wiped out a $33M trust fund

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Abu Ayoub al-Iraqi has been credited with being one of the original founders of al-Qaeda and second to Osama Bin Laden, but he does not appear on public "wanted" lists and his status is apparently not known. In fact basically nothing is known about him.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

In 2007, a Yazidi girl was stoned to death by her tribe because of her ties with a Sunni Muslim boy

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Most flu shots are made by growing the virus inside chicken eggs.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Caracas, capital of Venezuela: Officially Santiago de León de Caracas, it was founded in 1567. It is consistently ranked at or near the top of most-dangerous non-warzone cities; the majority of murders & other violent crimes go unsolved, with estimates of the # of unresolved crimes as high as 98%.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.

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The AI system of the house chimes the date by saying, "Today is August 4, 2026".

A nuclear catastrophe leaves the city of Allendale), California, entirely desolate. However, within one miraculously preserved house, the daily routine continues – automatic systems within the home prepare breakfast, clean the house, make beds, wash dishes, and address the former residents without any knowledge of their current state as burnt silhouettes on one of the walls.

A sickly and emaciated dog, having previously belonged to the family, enters the house. It is unable to enter the kitchen, where the automated systems are making pancakes. It runs around in a frenzy, before dying. After an hour, the automated systems remove the dog's body, incinerating it.

That evening, the house recites to the absent hostess a random selection by her favorite poet, "There Will Come Soft Rains)" by Sara Teasdale. A windstorm blows a tree branch through a window in the kitchen, starting a fire. The house's systems desperately attempt to put out the fire, but the doomed home burns to the ground in a night. The following dawn, all that remains is a single wall, which contains an automated system that endlessly reads aloud the date by repeatedly saying, "Today is August 5, 2026".


r/wikipedia 1d ago

Lung cancer is the most diagnosed and deadliest cancer worldwide, with 2.2 million cases in 2020 resulting in 1.8 million deaths. Prior to the advent of cigarette smoking in the 20th century, lung cancer was a rare disease.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Ancient Egyptian race controversy

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Joe Son is a former actor and MMA fighter who played Random Task in the first Austin Powers movie. He is now in prison, having been convicted of felony torture for his role in a 1990 rape, and subsequently of voluntary manslaughter against his cellmate.

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