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Ten fresh weird Wikipedia picks a day, scored for curiosity, self-hosted on fcc.cc with full text and images cached. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Today's pack
10
Edition
May 26
Pack date
May 26, 2026
Items
10 picks
Cadence
Refreshed daily
Source
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
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The Pick · 01

Today

Curator's pick
Daily № 2026-05-26May 26, 2026From the rabbit hole
A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peatland. They often show signs of violent death and have survived for millennia.
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The Pack · 02

The rest of today's rabbit hole

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№ 02
The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory that claims 297 years of history were fabricated, placing the Early Middle Ages as invented fiction.
— Phantom time hypothesis · self-hosted
pick · 24w
№ 03
A rat king is a collection of rats whose tails have become intertwined and bound together by blood, dirt, or ice. They are considered an ill omen in folklore.
— Rat king · self-hosted
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№ 04
Gef, also known as the Dalby Spook, was a talking mongoose reportedly heard and sometimes seen by a family on the Isle of Man in the early 1930s.
— Gef · self-hosted
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The Cottingley Fairies were a set of photographs made by two cousins in 1917 that many people, including Arthur Conan Doyle, accepted as evidence that fairies were real.
— Cottingley Fairies · self-hosted
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Wojtek was a Syrian brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and eventually enlisted so he could travel with the unit, becoming famous for carrying artillery shells.
— Wojtek (bear) · self-hosted
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Dancing mania was a social phenomenon in medieval and early modern Europe in which groups of people danced compulsively for days or weeks, baffling witnesses and historians alike.
— Dancing mania · self-hosted
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№ 08
The thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of the modern era. The last known specimen died in captivity in 1936.
— Thylacine · self-hosted
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№ 09
In July 1518, a woman began dancing fervently in a street in Strasbourg. Within a month, some 400 people had been seized by the same strange compulsion.
— Dancing Plague of 1518 · self-hosted
pick · 25w
№ 10
A mellified man was a legendary medicinal substance created by entombing a human body in honey. It was described in Chinese sources.
— Mellified man · self-hosted
pick · 22w