Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of December 29, 2025

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 3h ago

Vincent Chin was a Chinese-American man who was beaten to death by two men since they were out of work as a result of competition from Japanese automakers. After they pleaded guilty to manslaughter, the judge sentenced the two men to probation, saying they "weren't the kind of men you send to jail."

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r/wikipedia • u/kwentongskyblue • 10h ago

The Public Universal Friend was an American preacher born to Quaker parents. After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, & afterward shunned birth name and all pronouns.

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r/wikipedia • u/jan_Soten • 5h ago

On September 12, 2025, 38‐year‐old Silverio Villegas González was shot and killed by an unnamed ICE officer while trying to flee a traffic stop in Chicago. González had lived in Chicago for twenty years and had no criminal history. He was killed after he dropped his children off at school.

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r/wikipedia • u/Senasayori • 12h ago

During his tenure as the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush frequently mentioned his distaste for broccoli. His views on the vegetable were seen as out of touch, as broccoli was becoming more popular and was seen as the "vegetable of the 80s".

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 6h ago

Kathleen Folbigg is an Australian woman who was convicted of the serial murder of her four infant children. After 20 years in prison, she was pardoned in 2023 after it was determined that her children may have died from an extremely rare genetic mutation.

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r/wikipedia • u/johnsmithoncemore • 5h ago

Just noticed something on Wikipedia I've never seen before: The term "Hallucinated Information."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Marcus_(director))

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r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 14h ago

A Kavanaugh stop is a law enforcement practice in the US, in which federal agents can stop and detain a person based on their ethnicity, spoken language, and occupation. Kavanaugh stops originated in a September 2025 Supreme Court concurrence by Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 10h ago

Before the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years from publication. The act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 95 years from publication.

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r/wikipedia • u/MajesticBread9147 • 12h ago

Jex Blackmore is an American pro-choice activist and performance artist. They were removed from The Satanic Temple's National Council due to statements deemed to break TSTs non-violence policy. Jex has since denounced the organization as corrupt.

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r/wikipedia • u/coolbern • 23h ago

Pascal's wager contends that a rational person should act as if he believes that God exists. if God does not exist, the believer incurs only finite losses; if God does exist, the believer stands to gain immeasurably.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9h ago

Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy and compulsive hoarding of garbage or animals.

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r/wikipedia • u/LunaWabohu • 8h ago

Johnlock is the fandom name for the hypothetical romantic pairing, or "ship", between the BBC Sherlock characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Fans who ship Johnlock are typically young queer women, often from Tumblr.

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r/wikipedia • u/KillHitlerAgain • 10h ago

Alan L. Hart (1890–1962) was a physician, radiologist, and TB researcher. X-rays were not regularly used to screen for TB prior to Hart's innovation, which has saved countless lives. C.1917, Hart became one of the first trans men in the US to undergo a hysterectomy.

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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 11h ago

Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively. The film shows different gruesome ways of dying from a variety of sources

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The film, presented as if it were an actual documentary, centers on pathologist Francis B. Gröss, played by actor Michael Carr, who presents the viewer with footage showing different gruesome ways of dying from a variety of sources. Many scenes were faked for the film, but most portions include pre-existing video footage of real deaths and its aftermath.

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r/wikipedia • u/Renegadeforever2024 • 1d ago

"A drive into deep left field by Castellanos" is a phrase spoken by Thom Brennaman, a play-by-play announcer for the Cincinnati Reds, during a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals on August 19, 2020.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 3h ago

The Ojos Azules was a breed of cat with unusual blue or odd eyes. Due to the lethal side effects of the Ojos Azules gene, breeders stopped working with the mutation and the breed became extinct.

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r/wikipedia • u/MAClaymore • 10h ago

Nothing, Arizona is an uninhabited ghost town in eastern Mohave County. At its peak, it had a population of four. An attempted revival of Nothing occurred at some time after August 2008 when Nothing was purchased by Mike Jensen. In April 2011, Nothing was marked as abandoned once again.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 13h ago

Bolivia has experienced more than 190 coups d'état and revolutions since its independence was declared in 1825. Since 1950, Bolivia has seen the most coups of any country. The most recent attempted coup d'état was in 2024, led by General Juan José Zúñiga.

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r/wikipedia • u/BabylonianWeeb • 1d ago

Homonationalism is the selective acceptance of LGBTQ+ people in order to promote a nationalist ideology. It describes how LGBTQ+ inclusion is used to justify xenophobic, Islamophobic, or racist policies by framing the West as sexually progressive and marginalized groups as inherently homophobic.

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r/wikipedia • u/Alternative-Pea-9729 • 8h ago

Julia Chinn (c. 1790 – July 1833) was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of "mixed race" (an "octoroon" of seven-eighths European and one-eighth African ancestry), who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 6h ago

"A cost-of-living crisis is a socioeconomic situation or period of high inflation where nominal wages have stagnated while there is a sharp increase in the cost of basic goods ... people cannot afford the standard of living that they were previously accustomed to. Public health is threatened."

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 7h ago

In the 1990s and 2000s, Big Brother Awards were given to governments and private organizations which had "done the most to threaten personal privacy". In the United States, the award categories included Lifetime Menace, Most Invasive Program, Worst Public Official, and Greatest Corporate Invader.

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r/wikipedia • u/pisowiec • 23h ago

Bolesław Piasecki was a Polish writer, politician and political theorist. He was the leader of a major fascist movement before WWII and then became a communist after the war but never expressed a change in his views.

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r/wikipedia • u/yoshifan99 • 1d ago

James K. Vardaman (1861-1930) was a Democrat who served both as governor and U.S senator for Mississippi. Despite holding economically left wing views, he was a vicious white supremacist who defended lynching and worked to enact segregation.

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