I want to fall into a Wiki hole - recommend me some pages please!

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For various reasons I need to distract myself at various points over the next week or so and one of my fave ways to do that is by falling into a Wiki Hole, that is to say by reading about all sorts of random shit on Wikipedia.

I’m struggling for inspiration right now so can you throw me your fave/most interesting page recommendations please?!

(Also I am a BIG wuss so if it’s something creepy, scary or gruesome can you mention that so I only read it in the daytime please?! )

Thanks in advance!

They have you covered

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

I happened to read about the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams, possibly the Harold Shipman of his time.
Loads of interesting stuff on Wiki about him and his purported victims.
I have no idea how I ended up reading about him!

If you have YouTube then you could lose hours looking at ‘Acrylic pouring’ painting (well I have anyway).

I lose myself in unsolved crimes. Usually just Google "unsolved crime location" and click on the first wiki page.

People born the same year as you - hours of fun!

Unusual deaths

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

I'll try and find a thread to link for you, some of the conspiracy theory threads on here have given me hours of "research" time wasting to do on wiki. Hours of fun. Denver (I think) airport was a particularly mind blowing hole. Perfect distraction

Do you like art? Fantastic painter, barely heard of

16th century Italy, if that's anywhere near up your street?

Sofonisba Anguissola

Actually I can't link as they are in chat, they don't seem to be clickable any more.

I fell into a giant worm hole reading about Henry the eighth and all his wives. Surprisingly interesting!

Ah brilliant, this is a great start thank you all so much!

@elQuintoConyo I’m open to any suggestions, that’s a fab one thank you!

I've fell into a hole looking at deaths at Disney parks before

It’s easily done @blaaake!

I’m currently knee deep in the Soviet Union. Fascinating stuff!

I sometimes fall into a wiki hole by reading about a historical figure (monarchs and pharaohs are good for this one) then if their folks or predecessors have a wiki page have a read of that and keep going backwards in time to see how far back I can go.