Wikipedia:Wiki Wormhole

Wiki Wormhole was a weekly feature of The A.V. Club written by Mike Vago. Like Wikipedia:Unusual articles, Wiki Wormhole tends to feature some of Wikipedia's more peculiar fare. Based on the rabbit holes that readers find themselves in during a "wikiwalk", Wiki Wormhole typically includes mentions of the strangest fact, the biggest controversy, the things the author was happiest/unhappiest to learn, and the best link to another Wikipedia article.

Wiki Wormhole

No.	Wikipedia article	Title	Best link to elsewhere	Date
1	Fried dough foods	Wackipedia: A comprehensive list of the world's fried dough foods schools readers on Chiburekki, Nonnevotte, and hush puppies		2013-06-10
2	List of chairs	The Wiki Wormhole: Behold, the Internet's most comprehensive list of chairs		2013-06-17
3	List of U.S. state partition proposals	Wiki Wormhole: List of U.S. State Partition Proposals		2013-06-24
4	List of inventors killed by their own inventions	Wiki Wormhole: List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions		2013-07-01
5	Anime Bath Scene Wiki (a separate wiki)	Wiki Wormhole: Dive into the wild world of Anime bath scenes		2013-07-08
6	List of city nicknames in the United States	Wiki Wormhole: Explore a list of every U.S. city nickname		2013-07-15
7	Folly	Wiki Wormhole: Investigating the folly of buildings that serve absolutely no purpose		2013-07-22
8	Non-human electoral candidates	Wiki Wormhole: Tired of politics-as-usual? Check out the page on animals who have run for office.		2013-07-29
9	List of celebrities involved with WrestleMania	Wiki Wormhole: Rejoice, for there is a list of every celebrity who has ever appeared at WrestleMania		2013-08-05
10	List of films considered the worst	Wiki Wormhole: Here's a comprehensive list of the worst movies ever made		2013-08-12
11	Cola	Wiki Wormhole: Quench a thirst for knowledge with a page all about cola		2013-08-18
12	List of theological demons	Wiki Wormhole: Let Wikipedia help you wrestle with demons, personal and otherwise		2013-08-25
13	Discontinued merit badges	Wiki Wormhole: Break out the s'mores, sit around the campfire, and read about discontinued merit badges		2013-09-03
14	List of common misconceptions	Wiki Wormhole: Set the record straight with this list of common misconceptions		2013-09-09
15	Defunct NFL franchises	Wiki Wormhole: Ring in football season with Wikipedia's list of defunct NFL franchises		2013-09-16
16	TV Series Cancelled After One Episode	Wiki Wormhole: Wikipedia remembers TV shows that only lasted one episode		2013-11-17
17	List of conspiracy theories	Wiki Wormhole: Get ready to strain credulity with Wikipedia's exhaustive list of conspiracy theories		2013-11-25
18	List of unusual deaths	Wiki Wormhole: Cataloging some of the most unusual deaths of all time		2013-12-02
19	List of pirates	Avast ye! Wiki Wormhole checks out an arrr-ticle about pirates		2013-12-09
20	Animal sexual behaviour	Wiki Wormhole gets down and dirty with the animal kingdom		2013-12-16
21	List of observances in the United States by presidential proclamation	Enter holiday hell with Wikipedia's extensive list of official festive occasions		2014-01-06
22	List of micronations	Here's a guide to the world's micronations, from Llanrwst to Akhzivland		2014-01-13
23	Wunderwaffe	Here's your guide to Nazi superweapons		2014-01-19
24	List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events	It's the end of the world as we know it (and Wiki Wormhole feels fine)		2014-01-27
25	Legend tripping	Feeling brave? Go on a legend trip with Wiki Wormhole		2014-02-03
26	List of Olympic mascots	Wiki Wormhole delves into the bizarre world of Olympic mascots		2014-02-10
27	Advergaming	Sell out to the man with this list of promotional tie-in video games		2014-02-17
28	Lost lands	Wiki Wormhole: Explore lost continents that are mostly made-up		2014-02-25
29	Contents of the Voyager Golden Record	Send more Chuck Berry! A look at the only album to leave the solar system		2014-03-03
30	Kowloon Walled City	Wiki Wormhole investigates Hong Kong’s insane Kowloon Walled City		2014-03-10
31	Unexplained disappearances	Vanish into a Wiki Wormhole with this list of unexplained disappearances		2014-03-17
32	Australian megafauna	Crikey! Wiki Wormhole on the biggest, strangest animals from down under		2014-03-24
33	List of Major League Baseball mascots	Wiki Wormhole: Celebrate the new baseball season with some of its strangest mascots		2014-04-01
34	List of scandals with "-gate" suffix	It's Wikigate, as we explore a list of scandals!		2014-04-07
35	[[]]	[ ]		2014-
36	Transhumanism	Explore humanity’s next step with Wiki Wormhole		2014-04-14
37	Toilet-related injuries and deaths	Use the facilities at your own risk: Wikipedia’s list of toilet-related deaths		2014-04-21
38	Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion	In 1987, someone hacked into WGN, in one of TV's strangest-ever moments		2014-04-28
39	New Coke	New Coke: The drink test audiences loved and America hated		2014-05-05
40	Unethical human experimentation in the United States	Cross the line, into Wikipedia’s list of unethical experiments		2014-05-12
41	Bell Labs	Drop some science with groundbreaking research institute Bell Labs		2014-05-19
42	Ed Wood	Wiki Wormhole celebrates the worst filmmaker of all time		2014-05-27
43	Moonshine by country	See how countries around the world make their own moonshine		2014-06-02
44	The Paraguayan War	This war nearly destroyed Paraguay and made a hero of a mediocre U.S. President		2014-06-09
45	Nikola Tesla	A look at erratic, influential inventor Nikola Tesla		2014-06-16
46	Monopoly (game)	Go to Wikipedia, go directly to Wikipedia, for its take on Monopoly		2014-06-23
47	Top hat	Stay classy as Wiki Wormhole dons a top hat		2014-06-30
48	Jack the Ripper	History’s most notorious serial killer is still a subject of fascination a century later		2014-07-07
49	List of serial killers before 1900	Death takes a trip down memory lane with this list of pre-1900 serial killers		2014-07-14
50	Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations	“You just made my list!” Just try to stay off of America’s Red Scare-era enemies list		2014-07-21
51	Secret societies	Let Wikipedia indoctrinate you into its list of secret societies		2014-07-28
52	Numbers station	Explore the century-old mystery of numbers stations		2014-08-04
53	Pedestrianism	Walk, don’t run, to Wikipedia’s history of competitive walking		2014-08-11
54	List of Famous Trees	Call the paparazzi, it’s Wikipedia’s list of famous trees		2014-08-18
55	Duel	En garde! Wikipedia takes us through the history of dueling		2014-08-25
56	Benjamin Franklin	This week’s Wiki Wormhole is all about the Benjamin (Franklin, that is)		2014-09-08
57	Typeface	Learn to hate Comic Sans with Wikipedia’s guide to typefaces		2014-09-15
58	List of High Kings of Ireland	Ireland’s High Kings spanned history and myth		2014-09-22
59	The history of smallpox	Read about the worst killer in the history of the world: smallpox		2014-09-29
60	Easter Island	Explore one of the most remote spots on Earth: Easter Island		2014-10-06
61	Ship's cat	Take to the sea with Wikipedia’s list of famous ship’s cats		2014-10-13
62	Luck	Do you feel lucky? Wikipedia is here to explain your good fortune		2014-10-20
63	Voodoo	Explore Voodoo’s mysteries and misconceptions		2014-10-27
64	Zombie	From pufferfish poison to Hollywood trope, the winding myth of the zombie		2014-11-03
65	Norse colonization of the Americas	Meet the Norse sailors who reached America 500 years before Columbus		2014-11-10
66	List of fictional toxins (Deleted in July 2018)	Just try to survive Wikipedia’s list of fictional poisons!		2014-11-17
67	Superseded scientific theories	Sometimes science gets it wrong, as evidenced by this list of discredited theories		2014-11-24
68	Carbon dioxide removal	Can we fix climate change? Here’s Wikipedia’s take on how it might happen		2014-12-01
69	List of emerging technologies	Which of these future technologies will be the one to rise up and destroy us?		2014-12-08
70	Christmas controversy	The “war on Christmas” has raged for a good long while		2014-12-15
71	Sex in space	Visit the 250-mile-high club with a look at sex in space		2015-01-05
72	Operation Paperclip	After WWII, the U.S. hired Nazi scientists en masse via Operation Paperclip		2015-01-12
73	Che Guevara	Che Guevara: The man behind the T-shirt		2015-01-19
74	Pulp magazines	Read the lurid history of pulp magazines		2015-01-26
75	Dyson sphere	Explore one of space travel’s biggest ideas: the Dyson sphere		2015-02-02
76	Collaborative fiction	Writing gets less lonely with this look at collaborative fiction		2015-02-09
77	Satanism	Come worship the devil with our look at Satanism		2015-02-16
78	Marquis De Sade	Christian Grey can’t hold a wax-dripping candle to the Marquis De Sade		2015-02-23
79	Jesters	Laugh along with Wikipedia’s look at jesters		2015-03-02
80	Decline of the Roman Empire	The Roman Empire fell, but Wikipedia survives to chart its decline		2015-03-09
81	United States dollar	Wikipedia’s got its mind on its money and its money on its mind		2015-03-16
82	Jimmy Carter rabbit incident	In 1979, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a giant swimming rabbit		2015-03-23
83	Tobacco advertising	Tobacco advertising goes back a lot further than Sterling Cooper		2015-03-30
84	List of last survivors of historical events	See Wikipedia’s list of the last survivors of historic events		2015-04-06
85	The Imperial Airship Scheme	In the 1920s, dirigibles were Britain’s future		2015-04-13
86	Werewolf	Beware the full moon—Wikipedia’s got werewolves!		2015-04-20
87	List of largest monoliths in the world	Wikipedia’s list of monoliths looms ominously		2015-04-27
88	Mythological objects	Choose wisely from Wikipedia’s list of mythological objects		2015-05-04
89	Visionary environments	Explore artists’ visionary environments		2015-05-11
90	Unfinished creative work	Can’t stop, won’t stop: Wikipedia’s list of unfinished works		2015-06-01
91	1995	Wiki Wormhole celebrates 1995 week with a look back		2015-06-08
92	Running amok	Run amok with Wiki Wormhole’s look at, well, running amok		2015-06-15
93	Fascinus	Wikipedia erected a page to explain Ancient Rome’s fascination with the phallus		2015-06-22
94	Tutankhamun	Visit King Tut’s condo made of stone-a		2015-06-29
95	Twins	Double your pleasure with Wikipedia’s look at twins		2015-07-07
96	Neologism	Grok Wikipedia’s perfectly cromulent list of new words		2015-07-13
97	Tijuana bible	America’s earliest underground comics made Robert Crumb look G-rated		2015-07-20
98	List of hairstyles	Let your hair down with Wikipedia’s list of hairstyles		2015-07-27
99	Exotic pets	Alligators, anteaters, and armadillos abound on Wikipedia’s list of exotic pets		2015-08-03
100	List of lists of lists	Wikipedia devours itself with a list of lists of lists		2015-08-10
101	Category:Mythological human hybrids	Unleash your animal side with mythological human hybrids		2015-08-17
102	Category:Alleged UFO-related entities	The truth is out there, “there” being Wikipedia’s take on alien visitations		2015-08-24
103	Jandek	Outsider artist Jandek released dozens of albums anonymously		2015-08-31
104	Pseudoscience	The jury’s still out on science, with Wikipedia’s look at pseudoscience		2015-09-14
105	Berenstain Bears	Let Wikipedia take you to Berenstain Bear country		2015-09-21
106	New York City Subway	Commute with Wikipedia to the overcrowded New York City Subway		2015-09-28
107	Graffiti	Wiki Wormhole has a posse: Check out Wikipeida’s look at graffiti		2015-10-05
108	Tea culture	Have a spot of tea with Wikipedia		2015-10-12
109	Hippie	Far out, man: Wiki Wormhole takes a look at hippies		2015-10-19
110	Exploitation film	Grab some popcorn—Wikipedia’s looking at exploitation films		2015-10-26
111	World War III	Get ready for World War III with Wikipedia!		2015-11-02
112	Human mission to Mars	Take a trip to the red planet via Wiki Wormhole		2015-11-09
113	List of most expensive films	Wikipedia shows you the money, with the list of the most expensive films ever made		2015-11-16
114	Howard Hughes	Follow the outsized successes and failures of mogul Howard Hughes		2015-11-23
115	Mormon cinema	Visit Mollywood, the Mormon independent film industry		2015-11-30
116	Idiotarod	Ah, the glory of sport: The Idiotarod is an annual downhill shopping-cart race		2015-12-07
117	Shopping cart	Learn more about the humble shopping cart with Wiki Wormhole		2015-12-14
118	Toledo War	The Midwest's almost-war was settled when Ohio and Michigan squared off in 1835		2015-12-21
119	Taman Shud case	The victim of Taman Shud case is as much a mystery as whodunnit		2016-01-04
120	Collyer brothers	Read all about famous reclusive hoarders the Collyer Brothers		2016-01-11
121	Dead-ball era	Let Wikipedia take you out to the more sedate ballgame of the dead-ball era		2016-01-18
122	Gold rush	Pan for nuggets of shiny, gleaming history in Wikipedia’s take on the gold rush		2016-01-25
123	List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes	Get fresh with Rotten Tomatoes’ perfect-scoring movies		2016-02-01
124	List of films with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes	On with the worst: Movies with a zero-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes		2016-02-08
125	List of animals with fraudulent diplomas	Thought your college roommate was messy? Check out these animals with degrees		2016-02-15
126	United States presidential pets	Hail to the list of presidential pets		2016-02-22
127	Roy Sullivan	Park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times—and lived		2016-02-29
128	Teetotalism	Jump on the wagon with Wikipedia’s take on teetotalism		2016-03-07
129	Poisons	Try and survive Wikipedia's list of poisonings		2016-03-14
130	History of Doctor Who	Travel back in time through the history of Doctor Who		2016-03-21
131	Samizdat	Risk time in the gulag by reading about Soviet-era underground media		2016-04-03
132	List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable	These baseball records have stood the test of time		2016-04-10
133	Mr. Splashy Pants	A decade before Boaty McBoatface, the internet came together to name a whale		2016-04-17
134	Product placement	There are surprisingly few ads in Wikipedia’s look at product placement		2016-04-24
135	Fictional brands	Pour yourself a nice, cool Duff, and read about fictional brand names		2016-05-01
136	Action Park	New Jersey’s Action Park offered fun and injury for the whole family!		2016-05-08
137	Japanese urban legends	Don't fall for Japan's urban legends		2016-05-15
138	John Titor	In the year 2000, a time traveler appeared to predict the future		2016-05-22
138	Republic of Texas	Texas was livin' large in the decade where it was its own country		2016-05-29
139	Timeline of the far future	Top scientists have predicted events far, far into the future		2016-06-05
140	The Great Stink	Take a deep breath and wade into the Great Stink, the Thames at its most fetid		2016-06-12
141	List of sandwiches	The powerful bread lobby wants you to read this article about sandwiches		2016-06-19
142	List of defunct fast-food restaurant chains	Take a bite out of Wikipedia's list of defunct fast-food joints		2016-06-26
143	List of anthropomorphic animal superheroes	Before superheroes got grim, there were plenty of crime-fighting animals		2016-07-03
144	Mass hysteria	Go crazy with Wikipedia's look at mass hysteria		2016-07-10
145	Salem witch trials	Let the wild accusations fly as we look at the Salem witch trials		2016-07-17
146	List of general fraternities	Put on a silly hat and join our list of fraternal organizations		2016-07-24
146	Emperor Norton I	All hail Joshua Norton, America's first emperor		2016-07-31
147	List of cryptids	What creatures are lurking out there in the night? Wikipedia knows!		2016-08-07
148	Ted Kaczynski	1996 saw the capture of one of America’s most notorious domestic terrorists		2016-08-14
149	Glasgow Ice Cream Wars	Glasgow’s Ice Cream Wars served up two scoops of murder		2016-08-21
150	Death by laughter	Sometimes "died laughing" isn't just an expression		2016-08-28
151	Assassination of James Garfield	President Garfield may have liked lasagna, definitely didn’t like being assassinated		2016-09-04
152	United States Camel Corps	Before the Civil War, camels joined the army		2016-09-11
153	Mike the Headless Chicken	One chicken with its head cut off made something of itself		2016-09-18
154	Polish-Muscovite War	Long before Stalin invaded it, Poland tried putting one false tsar after another on Russia’s throne		2016-09-25
155	History of the world's tallest buildings	The “world’s tallest building” title has had its—wait for it—ups and down		2016-10-02
156	List of controversial album art	Parental advisory: Album covers have been inciting controversy for decades		2016-10-09
157	Proxima Centauri b	Meet your neighbor—an Earthlike planet just 4 light-years away		2016-10-16
158	Lost film	Much of early film history has been lost forever		2016-10-23
159	Salish Sea human foot discoveries	No one knows why severed feet have been washing up along the Salish Sea		2016-10-30
160	Narco submarines	Drug lords have been moving their wares undetected, underwater		2016-11-06
161	Krazy Kat	A century ago, Krazy Kat was a comics-page masterpiece		2016-11-13
162	Boontling	This California town invented its own language		2016-11-20
163	United States presidential election, 1876	1876 saw an election even more crazed and contentious than 2016		2016-11-27
164	Peter Cooper	Meet the 19th century’s tuition-waiving, gelatin-inventing Renaissance man		2016-12-04
165	Resolute desk	The president’s desk was once trapped in an iceberg, and other stories		2016-12-11
166	War of the Golden Stool	In 1900, a 60-year-old woman defied an empire to protect her country’s throne		2016-12-18
167	List of sitcoms notable for negative reception	Wikipedia delicately calls these terrible sitcoms “notable”		2017-01-08
168	Macro-engineering	Think big with these massive macro-engineering projects		2017-01-15
169	Betty and Barney Hill	An unassuming couple’s drive home launched a generation of UFO speculation		2017-01-22
170	The Cherry Sisters	The Cherry Sisters’ vaudeville act was so bad it set legal precedent		2017-01-29
171	Mosuo	The matriarchal Mosuo of China enjoy communal living and “walking marriages”		2017-02-05
172	Elizabeth Van Lew	Meet the Virginia women who spied for the Union—right under Jefferson Davis’ nose		2017-02-12
173	Turtle (submersible)	Think the U-boat was the beginning of submarine warfare? Think again		2017-02-19
174	Category:Musical hoaxes	Don't be taken in by these musical hoaxes		2017-02-26
175	List of fictional magazines (Deleted in June 2019)	Extra! Extra! Read all about it in these fictional magazines		2017-03-05
176	List of television series that changed networks	Same time, different channel: These shows all switched networks midway through		2017-03-12
177	DuMont Television Network	Tune in to long-forgotten DuMont, early rival to NBC and CBS		2017-03-19
178	Spite house	Spite's a great motivator, even when building a home		2017-03-26
178	The Bozo Show	Meet the clown who dominated Chicago’s airwaves for generations of kids		2017-04-02
179	Fairchild Channel F	Channel F was 1977’s top game system—before Atari wiped it out		2017-04-09
180	Toynbee tiles	An unknown artist embedded a cryptic message into city streets		2017-04-16
181	Trial of the Century	The trial of the century only comes along a dozen or so times a century		2017-04-23
182	Evelyn Nesbit	In 1901, Evelyn Nesbit was the most recognizable face in America—even before a murder trial		2017-04-30
183	Kinetoscope	120 years before Avatar in 3-D, the kinetoscope was the first high-tech movie experience		2017-05-07
184	Coney Island	America's first amusement park is still an NYC icon		2017-05-14
185	List of television actors who died during production	These actors didn't survive their last TV roles		2017-05-21
186	Talking animals	Ruh-roh! Somebody taught these animals to talk		2017-05-28
187	Brown dog affair	The death of one dog caused riots and shocked a nation		2017-06-04
188	List of unexplained sounds	Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Explore some of the world’s unexplained noises		2017-06-11
189	Margaret Brown	Margaret Brown led a remarkable life even apart from surviving the Titanic		2017-06-18
190	Masabumi Hosono	Masabumi Hosono survived the Titanic, but not the public’s scorn		2017-06-25
191	Mandukhai Khatun	China expanded the Great Wall to keep this female warrior out		2017-07-02
192	Buran programme	Blast off with the USSR’s failed answer to the Space Shuttle		2017-07-09
193	David Rice Atchison	After Polk, Zachary Taylor was our 12th president… or was he?		2017-07-16
194	Missouri Mormon War	In 1838, Missouri witnessed the "Missouri Mormon War"		2017-07-23
195	List of Batman family enemies	Holy obscurity, Batman! Take a look at some of Gotham’s least-memorable villains		2017-07-30
196	Raising of Chicago	We (re)built this city: The time engineers lifted Chicago 6 feet in the air		2017-08-06
197	The boy Jones	Meet the teenager who stole Queen Victoria's panties		2017-08-13
198	Teletubbies	20 years ago, a psychedelic kids’ show blew babies’ minds		2017-08-20
199	LANSA Flight 508	Read about a teenage girl’s harrowing journey after surviving a plane crash		2017-08-27
200	Amos Alonzo Stagg	A century before Bo Jackson, Amos Stagg had a lasting impact on football, baseball, and basketball		2017-09-10
201	Liberty ship	Liberty ships were cheap, ugly, and helped win WWII		2017-09-17
202	George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham	Meet the English nobleman who may have been King James' boyfriend		2017-09-24
203	Alexandre Dumas	France’s most famous author led a life worthy of one of his own stories		2017-10-01
204	Ant Tribe	China’s millennials don’t have jobs or avocados		2017-10-08
205	Polybius (urban legend)	Read the urban legend about the government’s secret mind-altering arcade game		2017-10-15
206	Ralph McQuarrie	George Lucas owes the look and feel of Star Wars to one key collaborator		2017-10-22
207	Giallo	Alongside spaghetti Westerns, Italy was also making “spaghetti thrillers” in the ’60s		2017-10-29
208	O.K. Connery	Sean Connery's most famous role was once spoofed by his non-actor brother in the film O.K. Connery		2017-11-05
209	List of music considered the worst	Cover your ears! It's the worst music of all time!		2017-11-12
210	Toast	Wikipedia proposes a toast to...toast!		2017-11-19
221	Chevalier d'Eon	Trans French spy Chevalier d'Éon was also a wannabe American revolutionary		2017-12-03
222	Bohemian Grove	The rich kids across the lake never had a summer camp like Bohemian Grove		2017-12-10
223	My Immortal (fan fiction)	Read if you dare about the worst Harry Potter fan fiction ever written		2017-12-17
224	Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles	Wikipedia maintains a graveyard of weird deleted articles	Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars	2018-01-07
225	Green Children of Woolpit	It wasn't easy being green for these mysterious children in 12th-century England		2018-01-14
226	Category:People whose existence is disputed	These historical figures rose to fame despite possibly not existing	Category:Nonexistent people	2018-01-21
227	Crisis of the third century	300 years before the fall of Rome, the empire survived 50 years of chaos		2018-01-28
228	Alice Roosevelt	Ivanka Trump has nothing on the country’s most interesting first daughter		2018-02-04
229	Death by coconut	Never mind sharks, the beach's biggest danger is the coconut		2018-02-11
230	Death during consensual sex	Turns out, sex can be deadly		2018-02-18
231	Pope John XII	The young Pope John XII died as he lived: Fornicating		2018-02-25
232	Emu War	In between world wars, Australia fought another implacable foe: Flightless birds		2018-03-04
233	Navies of landlocked countries	Being landlocked hasn’t stopped these countries from having a navy		2018-03-11
234	Tarrare	Meet the man who couldn't stop eating		2018-03-18
235	Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo	In 1937, a dictator assembled a baseball team for the ages	House of David (commune)	2018-03-25
236	Azolla event	Meet the fern that upended Earth's climate		2018-04-01
237	Head transplant	Science's dream of swapping people's heads may one day be a reality		2018-04-08
238	Negligible senescence	These organisms are going to live forever, and not in the Fame sense		2018-04-15
239	List of premature obituaries	These celebrities weren’t dead when their obits were published		2018-04-22
240	Crush, Texas	This Texas town existed for just one day, long enough to host a fatal train wreck		2018-04-29
241	Checkers speech	Once, all a politician needed to defuse a scandal was an adorable puppy		2018-05-06
242	Koro	Penis panic and the mysterious case of the retracting phallus		2018-05-13
243	Philadelphia Experiment	An invisible warship is at the center of WWII’s greatest urban legend		2018-05-20
244	De-extinction	Science finds a way to bring back extinct animals		2018-05-27
245	List of visionary tall buildings and structures	In your face, gravity: A look at the most visionary, ridiculously tall structures		2018-06-03
246	Non-rocket spacelaunch	Here's how we're trying to get to space without rockets		2018-06-10
247	New Order (Nazism)#Hitler's plans for North America	Hitler goes West: The secret plan for Nazi America		2018-06-17
248	Raelian Movement	Greetings from the UFO zealots who say aliens created life on Earth		2018-06-24
249	Japanese raccoon dog	This folkloric animal's only real-life power is cuteness		2018-07-01
250	Posthumous marriage	"Till death do us part" is no obstacle to a posthumous marriage		2018-07-08
251	List of ghost films	Ghosts are haunting Hollywood		2018-07-15
252	List of fictional U.S. states (Deleted in February 2022)	From Calisota to Moosylvania, America has a lot of made-up states		2018-07-22
253	Vertical farming	Tomato, ToMacco: Farmers are elevating their crops with vertical farming		2018-07-29
254	Julie d'Aubigny	17th-century French Opera’s a lot more fun when the singer also sword-fights		2018-08-05
255	Lost Ship of the Desert	Forget the Bermuda Triangle—legends speak of a lost ship in the California desert		2018-08-12
256	Ching Shih	Meet the 19th-century female pirate who launched a thousand (pirate) ships		2018-08-19
257	Phil Hartman	20 years ago, the world lost a singular comic talent in Phil Hartman		2018-08-26
258	Robert Smalls	In 1862, a slave hijacked a Confederate ship and became a national hero		2018-09-02
259	Bass Reeves	Meet the man who might have been the real-life Lone Ranger		2018-09-09
260	Muscogee	The Muscogee maintained independence against colonizers for 200 years		2018-09-16
261	Chung Ling Soo	The greatest trick this magician ever pulled was convincing 1900s Europe he wasn’t a dick		2018-09-23
262	List of entertainers who died during a performance	The only thing worse than dying on stage is actually dying on stage		2018-09-30
263	United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins	America once took 32 tons of shark fins to court	Shark attack	2018-10-07
264	Quasi-War	In 1798, the U.S. went to war with France—sort of		2018-10-14
265	Qiu Jin	This Chinese feminist died fighting for revolution just before it finally arrived		2018-10-21
266	Geography of Halloween	The Irish Potato Famine brought Halloween to the States, and candy is spreading it all over the world		2018-10-28
267	Cadaver Synod	In 897, the pope dug up his dead predecessor and put his corpse on trial		2018-11-04
268	Hatshepsut	Meet Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who men tried to erase from history		2018-11-11
269	List of pharaohs#Ptolemaic Dynasty	Move over, Lannisters: No one did incest and murder like the last pharaohs	Ptolemy XI Alexander II	2018-11-18
270	Collapse of Smile	The Beach Boys’ ambitious follow-up to Pet Sounds nearly destroyed the band		2018-12-02
271	Samantha Smith	In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R. He wrote back and she became our youngest diplomat.		2018-12-09
272	Ong's Hat	The internet's first conspiracy theory involved a ghost town in New Jersey		2018-12-16
273	Mail art	Special delivery: These artists' preferred medium was the mail		2019-01-06
274	Gef	Meet Gef, the ghost mongoose who’d turn off the oven if the humans forgot		2019-01-13
275	List of historical currencies	Wikipedia counts money that no longer exists		2019-01-20
276	New England vampire panic	Early New Englanders thought tuberculosis was caused by vampires		2019-01-27
277	Hall of Fame for Great Americans	The Bronx's Hall of Fame for Great Americans is just okay		2019-02-03
278	Mona Lisa (Prado's version)	It turns out the Mona Lisa is just a Mona Lisa		2019-02-10
279	Oliver Cromwell's head	Oliver Cromwell's head was buried 300 years after the rest of him		2019-02-17
280	The Man in the Iron Mask	Turns out the Man in the Iron Mask was a real guy		2019-02-24
281	Category:Fictional characters without a name	These characters made a name for themselves by not having one		2019-03-03
282	Category:Unidentified people	History remembers these people, just not their names		2019-03-10
283	Five Pointz	This Queens factory became a monument to graffiti, then gentrification		2019-03-17
284	The Langley Schools Music Project	A 1970s Canadian elementary school put out one of the best albums of 2001		2019-03-24
285	Pittsburgh drug trials	1985’s baseball season was scandalized by a coke-dealing parrot		2019-03-31
286	Mary Toft	In 1726, a woman convinced doctors she had given birth to rabbits		2019-04-07
287	The Accursed Kings	Before the Targaryens, there were medieval France’s Accursed Kings		2019-04-14
288	Candy Desk	In the past 50 years, one thing U.S. Senators have agreed on is candy—but barely		2019-04-21
289	1858 Bradford sweets poisoning	Bah! Peppermint “humbugs” poisoned 200 people in 1850s Britain		2019-04-28
290	Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death	Dioramas can be murder!		2019-05-05
291	Chicken eyeglasses	Move over, Warby Parker, somebody made glasses for chickens		2019-05-12
292	Homicidal sleepwalking	When a nightmare becomes reality: These people committed murder in their sleep		2019-05-19
293	David Hahn	Up and atom! This kid built his own nuclear reactor		2019-05-26
294	Karl Heinrich Ulrichs	This lawyer helped pioneer the gay rights movement in late-1800s Germany		2019-06-02
295	Lesbian pulp fiction	Pulp fiction was cheap, salacious and one of the only venues for lesbian love stories		2019-06-09
296	Albert Cashier	Meet the trans man who fought in the Civil War		2019-06-16
297	List of television series with bisexual characters	Bi erasure is a problem on TV as in life, but one that's gradually improving		2019-06-23
298	Bald-hairy	The ironclad rule of Russian politics? Every other leader goes bald		2019-06-30
299	Porcelain	China once had such a monopoly on porcelain we just call it “china”		2019-07-07
300	Dorothy Gibson	Dorothy Gibson starred in a film about the Titanic only a month after surviving its sinking		2019-07-14
301	Waffles	For waffles, life began as a Communion wafer		2019-07-21
302	Dunbar's number	How many friends do you have? Science says it is less than 150		2019-07-28
303	The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate	This artist's nudes gave him a bad reputation. His solution? Paint more nudes		2019-08-04
304	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace	1999’s most anticipated film was a childhood-ruining debacle		2019-08-11
305	List of stories set in a future now past	Plenty of sci-fi futures are now in the past		2019-08-18
306	Harry Grindell Matthews	This inventor's death ray was totally real, but no one was allowed to see it		2019-08-25
307	Texas City disaster	A Texas port town was leveled by one of the biggest explosions in history		2019-09-01
308	List of fictional worms	Wiki Wormhole: Now with more worms!		2019-09-08
309	List of female American football players	They weren't all kickers: Tackling the history of women in football		2019-09-15
310	Nose-picking	Everyone nose: we all pick our noses		2019-09-22
311	Gombe Chimpanzee War	Some apes Jane Goodall studied fought a years' long war		2019-09-29
312	Alice Guy-Blaché	The first female director practically invented narrative film		2019-10-06
313	List of incidents at Walt Disney World	Even the Happiest Place on Earth has had some bad days		2019-10-13
314	Utsuro-bune	In 1803, Japan had an encounter with an unidentified floating object		2019-10-20
315	Parsley massacre	Parsley played a brutal role in a crucial massacre		2019-10-27
316	Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories	In 2015, conspiracy nuts were convinced the U.S. was going to invade Texas		2019-11-03
317	Category:2010 controversies	2010's controversies seem quaint by 2019 standards		2019-11-10
318	Category:Words coined in the 2010s (now Category:2010s neologisms)	From "deepfake" to "manspreading", here's a look at words that dawned in the 2010s		2019-11-17
319	2010s in music	Wikipedia tries to cover the last 10 years of music in one overstuffed page		2019-11-24
320	Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors	Penn & Teller’s maddening unreleased video game became a cult sensation online		2019-12-08
321	Extreme ironing	When ironing gets hot: How one boring chore was taken to the extreme		2019-12-15
322	Mari Lwyd	Celebrate the holidays the Welsh way—with a singing horse skull		2019-12-22
323	Mars 2020	It's 2020 and we're going back to Mars		2020-01-05
324	The Liverbirds	The ’Birds and The Beatles: Meet The Liverbirds, the Fab Four’s female contemporaries		2020-01-12
325	Jeanne de Clisson	Avast! This french noblewoman-turned-pirate wasn’t out for treasure, just revenge		2020-01-19
326	Battle of New Orleans	Pirates helped win the decisive battle in a war that had already ended		2020-01-26
327	Yahoo! Time Capsule	Next month Yahoo!’s time capsule will reveal the distant past… of 2006		2020-02-02
328	Efforts to impeach George W. Bush	We almost impeached George W. Bush, too		2020-02-09
329	Adolphe Sax	Adolphe Sax just couldn’t stop inventing instruments and naming them after himself	Mr Sax's House	2020-02-16
330	St Scholastica Day riot	Animal House was tame compared to Oxford’s class of 1355	Medieval university	2020-02-23
331	United States Football League	35 years before the (second) XFL, the USFL brought football into the springtime		2020-03-01
332	Rocky De La Fuente	Meet Trump’s used car salesman primary challenger	Vermin Supreme	2020-03-08
333	Chalk River Laboratories	Young Jimmy Carter once averted a nuclear disaster	Manhattan Project	2020-03-15
334	Handel & Hendrix in London	On one London street, baroque and psychedelic music are neighbors	Clavinet	2020-03-22
335	Forty Elephants	Meet the female shoplifting gang who ruled London’s West End for a century	Cummerbund	2020-04-05
336	Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon	The 1904 Olympic Marathon was the worst race ever run	Heat index	2020-04-12
337	List of films banned in the United States	Avert your eyes from this list of banned films	Victim (1961 film) Flaming Creatures	2020-04-19
338	Capgras delusion	This rare delusion convinces people their loved ones have been replaced by duplicates	Fregoli delusion	2020-04-26
339	List of impostors	These Wikipedia subjects are not who they claim to be	Charlatan	2020-05-03
340	People's Republic of Pineland	Every year, the Army invades our greatest enemy, North Carolina	United States Army Airborne School	2020-05-10
341	Theories of humor	Nothing kills a joke faster than overanalyzing it, so let’s do that	Lightbulb joke	2020-05-17
342	Co-Princes of Andorra	Tiny Andorra has two monarchs for just 77,000 people	Boris Skossyreff	2020-05-24
343	John R. Brinkley	This medical fraud’s miracle cure involved transplanting goat testicles into humans		2020-05-31
344	Dean drive	This scientist claimed to have broken Newton’s laws of motion	Hieronymus machine	2020-06-07
345	Bayard Rustin	Bayard Rustin was a key figure in the civil rights and gay rights movements	Soviet Jewry Movement	2020-06-14
346	William Haines	William Haines was out and proud in silent-era Hollywood	Hopewell, Virginia	2020-06-21
347	Elagabalus	This teenage Roman emperor may have been the earliest recorded trans woman		2020-06-28
348	List of northernmost settlements	Beat the summer heat in the northernmost towns on Earth	Thule Air Base	2020-07-05
349	New World Pictures	Roger Corman’s low-budget studio gave us more than just cult movies	Marvel Productions	2020-07-12
350	Fenn treasure	2020 can’t be all bad if someone found an actual buried treasure	Category:Treasure of the United States	2020-07-19
351	Transnistria	This Soviet breakaway republic never fully broke away	List of active separatist movements in Europe	2020-07-26
352	Mariko Aoki phenomenon	Do bookstores make you poop? The Japanese have a theory	Bathroom reading	2020-08-02
353	Year 2000 problem	The Y2K bug ended up being the millennium’s biggest anticlimax	Y2K (film)	2020-08-16
354	Soramimi	Misheard translated lyrics are a global phenomenon—there’s even a Japanese word for it	Translation#Sung texts	2020-08-23
355	Battle of Bamber Bridge	White soldiers declared war on their Black counterparts in an ugly incident from WWII	1943 Detroit race riot	2020-08-30
356	Straw Hat Riot	A fashion faux pas turned violent in NYC’s Straw Hat Riot	Mulberry Bend	2020-09-06
357	Auto-brewery syndrome	Sometimes your own stomach can get you drunk	Alcohol enema	2020-09-13
358	Futurist cooking	The Futurist art movement tried its hand at cooking, with unappetizing results	Fascism	2020-09-20
359	Ferret-legging	Anything can be a sport, even stuffing an animal down your pants	Four-minute mile	2020-09-27
360	Pauline Bonaparte	Napoleon’s sister led a life of “Bacchanalian promiscuity”	Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial	2020-10-04
361	My Way killings	Karaoke turned deadly in the “My Way” killings	Frank Sinatra Has a Cold	2020-10-11
362	Wojtek (bear)	During WWII, a bear joined the Polish army	Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski	2020-10-18
363	B. Traven	The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre author’s greatest mystery was his true identity	Coffin ship (insurance)	2020-10-25
364	Saddam Hussein's novels	Aspiring authors in novel-writing month have a kindred spirit in Saddam Hussein	Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder	2020-11-01
365	Monkey selfie copyright dispute	This week’s most pressing legal issue: Monkey selfies!	Animal-made art	2020-11-08
366	Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George", Pauline Wayne, Batman Dracula, Steamed cheeseburger	Quick hits: Presidential cows, Batman Dracula, and steamed hams		2020-11-15
367	Busta Rhymes Island, The Zombies#Post-Zombies, Danger triangle of the face, Tomoe Gozen	Fake Zombies, dangerous triangles, and more Wiki Wormhole quick hits		2020-11-22
368	Small penis rule, Mozart and scatology, Kynodesme, Peter Filandia, Bread dildo	Bread dildos and other NSFW topics in this very special Wiki Wormhole		2020-11-29
369	Parking chair, Cow Tools, Long hundred, Wulfstan (died 1095), Kanchō	Here are a few of Wikipedia’s most surprisingly controversial topics		2020-12-06
370	Judas goat, Project Pigeon, Digesting Duck, Animal trial, Rubber duck debugging	Treacherous goats, deadly pigeons, and other odd animals		2020-12-13
371	Honkbal Hoofdklasse, Root hog or die, Tommy Westphall, List of games that Buddha would not play	Honkbal, Root Hog, and other Wikipedia oddities		2020-12-20
372	World's longest hot dog, London Underground mosquito, Onfim, Clowns Gallery-Museum, Japanese addressing system, Iroha	Clowns, hot dogs, mosquitos, and more quick hits		2021-01-03
373	Vin Mariani	This cocaine-infused wine was endorsed by a 19th-century pope	Non-alcoholic drink	2021-01-10
374	Feast of the Ass	The medieval Feast of the Ass isn’t as filthy as it sounds	Pseudo-Augustine	2021-01-17
375	Clover (band)	Clover’s members didn’t become famous until after the band broke up	My Aim Is True	2021-01-24
376	New England (medieval)	There may have been another, older New England	Portolan chart	2021-01-31
377	1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game	Warm up for the big game by reading about the biggest blowout in football history	Running up the score	2021-02-07
378	Sam Raimi's unrealized projects	Sam Raimi has a long list of movies he never got to make	Development hell	2021-02-14
379	Kate Warne	America’s first female detective once saved Abraham Lincoln’s life	American Civil War spies	2021-02-21
380	Nottingham cheese riot	Cheese-related violence reared its ugly head in 1760s England	Truckle	2021-02-28
381	Tama (cat)	This feline station master always kept things meowving right along	Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office	2021-03-07
382	Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist	Canada’s heist of the century involved $18.7 million worth of maple syrup	Maple syrup	2021-03-14
383	Great Boston Molasses Flood	The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 was faster than you’d think	Pepsi Fruit Juice Flood	2021-03-21
384	Live insect jewelry	Meet the Beetles: This jewelry is made from live insects	Fashion victim	2021-03-28
385	Turboencabulator	The turboencabulator was the most complicated device never invented	Thiotimoline	2021-04-04
386	Pepsi Number Fever	In 1992, Pepsi Fever turned deadly	Hoover free flights promotion	2021-04-18
387	Charles Radbourn	This 19th-century baseball player still holds the record for most wins	The finger	2021-04-25
388	The Mad Pooper	The Mad Pooper caused a shitstorm in 2017	Exhibitionism	2021-05-02
389	Advergame	Before in-game ads, these video games were ads	Carol Shaw	2021-05-09
390	Erwin Kreuz	The tourist who mistook Bangor for San Francisco	Andre the Seal	2021-05-23
391	Pig War (1859)	The U.S. and Canada nearly went to war over a pig	Hudson's Bay Company	2021-05-30
392	Bat bomb	The U.S. tried to win World War II with a bat bomb	Tim Holt	2021-06-06
393	Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?	"Who Put Bella In the Wych Elm?" is a question that's haunted Worcestershire for nearly 80 years	Josef Jakobs	2021-06-13
394	Series finale	TV series finales never fail to stir conversation—especially on Wikipedia	Goodbye, Farewell and Amen	2021-06-20

External links

• xkcd 214: The Problem with Wikipedia
• Definition of "wiki-wormhole" at the Urban Dictionary