What Internet rabbit holes have you found yourself down?

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I just spent 20 minutes reading about the history of the metre.

Prompted by a question for DS asking "how do they know how long a metre is?"

@Housewoes23

Andrew Gosden and other missing people.

I've read so many websites and forums about Andrew Gosden!

His dad did a YouTube interview a couple of days ago if you're interested. It's on the Andrew Gosden subreddit.

Thanks vanillaandhoney I'll look for that :)
So sad but also so bizarre.

@Inmyownlittlecorner

Freejinger all about fundamentalist Christians with a bit of reality tv thrown in. There’s a woman that’s discussed who has 13 children & is a total disaster of a human & mother & I get sucked in every time.

Who is that lady please?

Extreme Dishwasher Loading group on Facebook, I'm addicted, full of smut and innuendo

I once found myself, at 3am, reading about Saddam Hussein's last meal. I clicked on link after link on Wikipedia pages and somehow that's where I ended up.

Looking at Clint Eastwood's grown up kids!

@inmyownlittlecorner and @neotraditional

Ooh ooh ooh- similar Internet rabbit hole- fundiesnark on reddit. Is it Jill Rodrigues by any chance? I can't stop reading about them all. Used to enjoy freejinger, but the threads started getting so off topic.

I find the Duggars a never-ending rabbit hole (of shudder) too. I am also easily distracted by anything on Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, Nicole Kidman's face and insider gossip about The Hamptons. Oh and I ended up subscribing to Hevesh5's (epic) domino tumble videos on YouTube after a meticulous people themed rabbit hole that I still can't remember the motivation for but which nevertheless sucked up an inordinate amount of time.

Having just finished The Crown, random shit about Camilla-Parker Bowles kids.

I read about the last episode of Byker Grove, its a absolute trip, aliens, dinosaurs, zombies, but no Ant or Dec

@Neotraditional and @Makedo

Yes it is JRod. Utterly horrifying yet I can’t stop!

After the Crown I'm down a rabbit hole of interviews about the Royal Family. I'm sure this happened the last time too

Caroline Calloway

Yesterday spent a while trying to work out whether there really was a Victorian fad for nipple piercing or if it’s a myth based on some erotic stories.

@HotPatootiebootie

I'm bipolar and spend 90% of my waking time in rabbit holes. Normally we will be watching a documentary and one of us will say something like "I wonder for many sub species of giraffes there are ?". I will google it. Then while reading about giraffes I'll end up looking at an article about guarded in captivity and how zoos have come on but sea world is terrible. I like dolphins. Go on, click on the dolphins link. Find out dolphins have been filmed masturbating with dead fish. Their penis literally inside a dead fish. I had never seen a dolphins penis before. Google unusual animal penis facts. The echidna has a 5 headed penis and it doesn't ejaculate like a man, it oozes. Snakes have a hemipens, in a effect a penis split into two. A Male pigs orgasm lasts for 30-60 minutes. Wait, what the heck is an echidna? Google's. End up buying a pet hedgehog and adopting a wanking dolphin 🐬

All that in the space of 15 minutes. My general knowledge is amazing and I love learning new things.

Well about two weeks ago, on MN someone asked about blepharoplasty. Another MNetter suggested they check out Caroline Hirons - which I did - which, in turn, led me to Trinny's instagram account, which took me down a four hour rabbit hole of twinning Fridays, a whole new world of face serums and rejuvenating face masks. My knees had completely seized up by the time I finally called it a day (about 2am) and I struggled to get up the stairs to bed. Ironically, I feel I aged about two years that night.

Unusual hybrid animals. There was once a African cross Asian elephant hybrid born at a UK zoo, but it didn't live very long. Also Llama cross camal and goats cross sheep.

That lake that accidentally drained into the salt mine! Lake Peigneur. It made the canals change direction and is still salty now! I can't believe no one died!

I’ve just been reading the profiles of the police dogs of Gwent Police. I think PD Wasp is my favourite.

God knows how I wound up there.

John Daniel, the Uley gorilla
Peter the wild boy
Elmer McCurdy - American outlaw

All true and very tragic storied

'Stories' - big hands, small keyboard - fatal combination!

To many to answer. I watched crown tonight and fell down a rabbit hole of Maggie's kids..and where are they now
To be honest this happens anytime l watch anything. I will Google the actor and then before you know it l falling down a hole of Thier life previous films and people related to them. Then l miss the whole program.

The biggest one was Larry Stylinson. Got mumsnet to thank for that one.

Other smaller ones every day. Today it was the IMDB history of Alexis Bleidel 🤷🏼‍♀️

All YouTube rabbit holes lead to 9/11

Peppa pig. If you Google Peppa pig, the suggested questions range any where from does Pedro pony have a crush on Peppa, to, how does Peppa pig die, and the summary answer says something like she has a heart attack in the last episode.

I stopped half way through bottle of wine number 2 that night.