The Internet Encyclopedia should have nothing to do with funny, but this is not the case with Annie Rauwerda.
Because her parents have not allowed her to surf the Internet since she was a child, she can only go to it for study. This American girl spends most of her time in Wikipedia .
Every day, she spends several hours randomly browsing different entries, playing "wiki competition" with her friends (that is, to compare who clicks more encyclopedia entries in a specific time), and accumulates a full basket of weird entries.
Every time she sees a weird entry, she takes a screenshot and shares it with other friends.
In April 22020, Annie posted a screenshot of an entry on Instagram, which said that the Giorth Thunder Mountain roller coaster in Disneyland can help kidney stones patients discharge stones (70% of patients can discharge it, but the specific effect depends on the seat of the roller coaster), and became popular online all of a sudden.
So she started an account called "Deep Wiki" and shared the strange Wiki entries she collected over the years. She has accumulated 500,000 fans so far, and even celebrities Emma Roberts and John Mayer are following her.
"Wikipedia is really weird!" This is Annie's slogan. Let's see what's inside
together~
A tree of its own
"A tree of its own" is a tree of its own white oak tree . According to local legend, the ownership of this tree belongs to the tree itself, and it also owns land within 2.4 meters of its own.
This tree is located on the corner of South Finley Street and Deering Street in Athens, Georgia, USA. In order to preserve his childhood memory, a member of Congress named William Jackson wrote a legal contract to hand over the ownership of the tree and the land to the tree itself.
Extreme Ironing
"Extreme Ironing" (also known as EI) is an extreme sport. People take ironing board to various special environments and iron clothes there.
official statement using the "Extreme Ironing Club", which is "a latest dangerous sport that combines the stimulation of extreme outdoor activities with the satisfaction of ironing shirts".
Prawo Jazdy (suspected crime)
Prawo Jazdy is a Polish who is listed as the "worst traffic violator" by the Irish National Police Force. According to the police's crime database, he has more than 50 traffic violations in Ireland .
007, an internal memo from the police station showed that after checking the bilingual dictionary, they found that Prawo Jazdy means "driver's license" in Polish . The previous police mistakenly thought that the word on the Polish driver's license was the name of the violator.
009, the Irish National Police Force won the funny Nobel Prize in Literature for this error, but did not attend.
"Bald-No Bald" Alternating Rules
"Bald-No Bald" Alternating Rules is a popular Russian political joke, referring to the Russian supreme leader always alternates between bald and bald men.
This rule can be traced back to 1825. After Nicholas I replaced his brother Alexander to become the Russian emperor, he and his son Alexander II formed the first pair of "bald-not bald" combination.
My way murder frenzy
"My way murder frenzy" refers to a social phenomenon that occurred in Philippine . Many people caused fatal conflicts in KTV because of singing the popular song "My way".
"New York Times " estimates that as of 2010, six people died because of this song.Between 2002 and 2012, countless people died from singing this song.
The attention received in such cases peaked on May 29, 2007, when a 29-year-old man was shot dead by security guards while singing karaoke in a bar in San Mateo. The security guard complained that the man had gone out of tune in singing "My Road", but the man refused to stop singing, so the security guard took out a 0.38-caliber pistol and killed him.
Explosion pants
In the 1930s, a unique phenomenon occurred in New Zealand . At that time, many farmers would explode when they cleared a weed called ragweed .
This is because when farmers spray sodium chlorate (the government-recommended herbicide) on ragweed, sodium chlorate falls onto the clothes and will react chemically with the organic fibers of the clothes. Especially in high temperatures, pants can easily catch fire, and some farmers even burned by .
This history was written by James Watson of Messi University in "On the Importance of Mr. Richard Barkley's Explosive Pants". This article later won him the Funny Nobel Prize.
is another river
"Another river" is the name of a river in the Kenai Peninsula Autonomous City, Alaska, United States. The reason why
was named "Another River" in 1927 is obviously because geologists had already named many, many other rivers that year.
Turkey Bowling
"Turkey Bowling" is a sport based on ordinary bowling: use frozen turkey as bowling balls, 10 plastic beverage bottles as bowling bottles, and then slide the turkey over a smooth floor. This event is generally related to Thanksgiving.
Derek Johnson claimed that he invented the turkey bowling in 1988. He also claimed to be the president of the "Poultry Bowling Association" and compiled many rules and terms, such as "bird line" (that is, the boundary line of the court).
(In 2006, the beauty pageant played turkey bowling in Willowick, Ohio)
Jesus baby stealing
"Jesus Baby stealing" refers to the Christmas season every year, someone steals plastic or ceramic statues of Jesus from Christmas dolls displayed outdoors.
According to the New York Times, this is an illegal act with a long history, "being considered part of the tradition of the year, usually done by boring teenagers."
Watching goose
"Watching goose" is a kind of domestic goose that is used as a guardian animal on farms and other places.
There has been a tradition of treating goose as a guardian animal throughout human history. Tito Livi, a historian of ancient Rome , believes that geese can issue alarms when Gaul invasion.
In modern farms, geese also have a good deterrent effect on predators of other poultry and can also drive out snakes.
goose was used to defend the US air defense command facilities built in Germany, guarding whiskey at the Bailingtan Distillery in Donbutton, Scotland.
Among them, African geese, Roman geese, Pomeranian geese and Chinese geese are the best breeds to perform guard work.
Mysterious soda vending machine on Capitol Hill
" Mysterious soda vending machine on Capitol Hill" refers to a vending machine located on Capitol Hill in the United States. It has been operating since at least the 1990s and has mysteriously disappeared in 2018. No one knows who is placing and operating this machine.
People can use the "?" button to buy soda. The soda inside is either very rare in the United States or disappeared on the market after 1980, such as vanilla Cola, Xinqis cherry lime juice, etc. In June 2018, the machine suddenly disappeared, and a note was posted on the nearby railing, saying "I've gone for a walk."
Friend Paradox
"Friend Paradox" is a phenomenon observed by sociologist Scott Feld in 1991, that is, the number of friends most people have is less than the average number of friends they have.
The same phenomenon also occurs in other non-friendly social networks. For example, most people have fewer sexual partners than the average number of sexual partners.
Fishing Squirrel
"Fishing"Squirrel" is a sport of "catching" squirrels. By tying nuts (preferably peanuts) on a rope or fishing line, let the squirrel catch it and hang it in the air.
There is a controversy about the origin of squirrel fishing. It is generally believed that Bob Kees and Greg Pavlovich brought to Ohio State University in 1988. When they were freshman, they caught a squirrel in their dormitory in the South Campus, but they never thought about what to do after catching the squirrel.
at University of California , there is a Berkeley Squirrel Fisherman Club.
Pittsburgh Toilet
"Pittsburgh Toilet", also known as "Pittsburgh Toilet", is a common fixed setting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA before .
It is an ordinary flush toilet installed in the basement with no walls around it.
Resentful House
"Resentful House" refers to the construction or substantial renovation of a house, with the purpose of angering the neighbor or any party who has real estate rights.
has no plans to live here for a long time, so these houses are built as strange and incredible as possible.
In Boston , this " Slim House " was built by people who inherited a small piece of land, with the purpose of blocking the neighbors' sight and annoying them.
In the "Deep Wiki", there are many other strange encyclopedia entries in ancient times. Some of them don't look real, but they are real.
collects them Annie is a student of Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Through these encyclopedia knowledge, she creates a comedy show that spreads it online in a funny and relaxed form.
" There is a trend on Twitter , that brands will speak in a casual tone and post saliva posts, just like they are 19-year-old teenagers. This is done to make it closer to the audience." Annie said.
"I think nonprofits can do similar things. If they are targeting young people who grow up on social media, they must learn to embrace emoticon culture and spread the information on the basis of telling facts."
It is hard to say what you can learn by reading the "Deep Wiki". Maybe it's enough.
nouns, activities that I never thought of,
is interesting, but it is actually this world...
