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The Best of Wikipedia[edit]

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Music: List of songs considered the best; Pearl Jam; The Beatles; John Lennon; Alice in Chains; Led Zeppelin; Pink Floyd; Metallica; The Rolling Stones; U2; Nirvana; Radiohead; Michael Jackson; AC/DC; David Bowie; Elvis Presley; Bob Dylan; The Smashing Pumpkins; Death of Jimi Hendrix; Jimi Hendrix; Eminem
Lists: List of lists of lists; Wikipedia:Unusual articles; Wikipedia:Silly Things; List of unusual deaths; List of inventors killed by their own inventions; List of common misconceptions; List of Latin phrases (full); List of people who disappeared mysteriously; List of military tactics; List of events named massacres; List of extremely hazardous substances; List of trees; Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions; List of paradoxes; List of memory biases; List of fallacies; List of poisonings; List of explorers; List of fictional demons; List of most massive stars; Traffic-light signalling and operation; List of most expensive photographs; List of mythological places; List of recurring Mario franchise enemies; List of largest monoliths in the world; List of phobias; List of paraphilias; List of technical terms for nonparaphilic sexual interests
Horror/Creepy/Mysterious: Albert Fish; Hinterkaifeck; Killing of Tim McLean; Unit 731; Armin Meiwes; Dyatlov Pass incident; Locked-in syndrome; Boston Molasses Disaster; Cluster headache; Murder of James Bulger; Issei Sagawa; Bunny Man; Bubbly Creek; Mad Gasser of Mattoon; Tanganyika laughter epidemic; Murder of Junko Furuta; Original Spanish Kitchen; Sedlec Ossuary; Visual release hallucinations; Voynich manuscript; Alien hand syndrome; Capgras delusion; Brain transplant; Polywater; Head transplant; Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine; Pope Lick Monster; James Dallas Egbert III; Bermuda Triangle; Spring-heeled Jack; Goatman (Maryland); Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?; Adam (murder victim); Original Night Stalker; Disappearance of Frederick Valentich; The Licked Hand; Gef; John Murray Spear; Tunguska event; Atuk; Aokigahara; Raymond Robinson (Green Man); Belchen Tunnel; Moberly–Jourdain incident; Rosenheim Poltergeist; Bachelor's Grove Cemetery; Kate Morgan; Premature burial; Zombie; Mercy Brown vampire incident; Clapham Wood Mystery; Black dog (ghost); Thomas Lyon-Bowes (heir to Lord Glamis, born 1821); Princes in the Tower; Bloop; Devil's Footprints; The Great Thunderstorm; Jersey Devil; The Devil's Chair (urban legend); Devil's Tramping Ground
Funny/Humorous: List of animals with fraudulent diplomas; Florence Foster Jenkins; List of names for turkeys; List of nicknames used by George W. Bush; List of sandwiches; List of premature obituaries; Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
Religion and Mythology: Empusa; Book of Life; Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture
Language and semantics: List of linguistic example sentences; Colorless green ideas sleep furiously; Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo; Semantic satiation; Eats, Shoots & Leaves; That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is; Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den; James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher; Homophonic puns in Mandarin Chinese; One-syllable article
Law: Breach of duty in English law; Person having ordinary skill in the art; The man on the Clapham omnibus; Reasonable person; Man on the Bondi tram; Contractual term
Interesting: Timeline of the far future; Timeline of the near future; 3rd millennium; List of millennia; George Mason University's historical hoaxes; Controversial Reddit communities; Tower of Babel; Synesthesia; Constructed language; As Slow as Possible; Library of Alexandria; List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events; 2012 phenomenon; Death of Ludwig van Beethoven; Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon; Emerging technologies; Floating timeline; Mad scientist; Automatic writing; Ancient astronauts; Dendera light; Phantom island; Out-of-place artifact; Shakespeare Apocrypha; Sigil (magic); Anthropodermic bibliopegy; Necronomicon; Rongorongo; Lost city; Blue Peacock; Mojave phone booth; Prometheus (tree); Emperor Norton; Joseph Jagger; Just-world hypothesis; Humanzee; Etaoin shrdlu; Alexamenos graffito; Homunculus
Mathematics: Signed zero; 0.999...; 2 + 2 = 5; Mathematical fallacy; Asch conformity experiments; Erdős–Bacon number; Graham's number; Hyperoperation; Ackermann function; Kruskal's tree theorem; Goodstein's theorem; Ramsey's theorem; Happy number; Illegal prime; Infinite monkey theorem; Monty Hall problem; Narcissistic number; Nothing up my sleeve number; Minkowski's question mark function; Ulam spiral; Vampire number; Will Rogers phenomenon
Paradoxes, puzzles and thought experiments: Interesting number paradox; Boy or Girl paradox; Sleeping Beauty problem; Two envelopes problem; St. Petersburg paradox; Newcomb's paradox; Ellsberg paradox; Gambler's ruin; Exponential growth; Kelly criterion; Pascal's mugging; Zeno's paradoxes; Allais paradox; Gambler's conceit; Inverse gambler's fallacy; Ross–Littlewood paradox; What the Tortoise Said to Achilles; Thomson's lamp; Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel; Ship of Theseus; False positive paradox; Banach–Tarski paradox; Coastline paradox; Archer's paradox; Fermi paradox; Heat death paradox; EPR paradox; Extinction paradox; Bootstrap paradox; Temporal paradox; Grandfather paradox; The Lady, or the Tiger?; Kavka's toxin puzzle; Laplace's demon; Pascal's Wager; Retrocausality; Martian scientist; Demon (thought experiment); Ideological Turing Test; Vanishing Sun model; Sphere-world; Simulated reality
Badass people: Hugh Glass; Juliane Koepcke; Leonid Rogozov; Michael Malloy; Ching Shih; Khutulun; Simo Häyhä; Jack Churchill; Subutai; Samuel Whittemore; Tank Man; Roy Benavidez; Boudica; Albert Jacka; Agrippina the Younger; Ronald Speirs; Yogendra Singh Yadav; Chesty Puller; Miyamoto Musashi; Blackbeard; Adrian Carton de Wiart; Alvin C. York; Genghis Khan; Audie Murphy; Brian Blessed; Witold Pilecki; Thomas Baker (Medal of Honor); Joan Pujol Garcia
The universe: Big Bang; Graphical timeline of the Big Bang; Chronology of the universe; Cosmic Calendar; Dark energy; Dark-energy-dominated era; Ultimate fate of the universe; Heat death of the universe; Future of an expanding universe; Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death; Big Rip; Big Crunch; Big Bounce; Cyclic model; Entropy (arrow of time); Galaxy formation and evolution; Stellar evolution; Formation and evolution of the Solar System; History of the Earth; Age of the Earth; History of Mars observation; Dyson's eternal intelligence; List of Deep Fields; List of minor planets; List of notable asteroids; 90377 Sedna; 243 Ida; List of geological features on 243 Ida and Dactyl; List of potentially habitable exoplanets; List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates; Asteroid belt; Asteroid mining; Aries (constellation); Hubble Deep Field; Oort cloud; Supernova; Rings of Neptune; Transit of Venus