Interesting Wikipedia articles for killing time and expanding your mind!!

Interesting Wikipedia articles for killing time and expanding your mind!!

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Post interesting random Wikipedia entries about something people have never hear

25 February 2010 at 08:35 PM
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Incredibly I’ve never heard of this before. Turns out the film 30 minutes or less is based on a real event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_bomb...

On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Upon being apprehended by police, Wells died when an explosive collar locked to his neck detonated. The FBI investigation into his death uncovered a complex plot described as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI".[1]


There was a decent Netflix documentary series on it a some years back. Going into in basically blind was a pretty wild ride!


craziest thing that held true for both the film and the real life scenario - is wouldn't everything have been better if instead of getting him to rob 250k from the bank in order to then hand the 250k to the buddy who was offering to be a hit man for you to just coerce the pizza guy to instead kill the person you wanted the hitman to kill

would have been vastly more likely to succeed imo - just felt like it was adding a bunch of needless steps in the middle - you already had an unwilling participant, why not just have him kill your dad directly


Who is the earliest African American you can think of who found fame and fortune in sports? If you're like me, you were off by several decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hart...

Frank Hart (1856 – September 1908) was an American athlete famous as the first African-American world record holder in the 19th century sport of pedestrianism.[1][2] His most noted win was in an 1879 6 Day Race at Madison Square Garden where he covered 565 miles and won $21,567 in prize money (equivalent to $727,809 in 2024)

Pedestrianism in general is pretty interesting. There was an episode of The Rest Is History about it recently.


Phantom of Heilbronn

The Phantom of Heilbronn, often alternatively referred to as the "Woman Without a Face", was a hypothesized unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009. The six murders among these included that of police officer Michèle Kiesewetter, in Heilbronn, Germany, on 25 April 2007.

The only connection between the crimes was the presence of DNA from a single female, which had been recovered from 40 crime scenes, ranging from murders to burglaries. In late March 2009, investigators concluded that there was no "phantom criminal", and the DNA had already been present on the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples; it belonged to a woman who worked at the factory where they were made.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoun...

korean forced to fight for japan against soviet union

soviet union captures him and forces him to fight against germany

germany captures him and forces him to fight the allies in normandy


by rickroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoun...

korean forced to fight for japan against soviet union

soviet union captures him and forces him to fight against germany

germany captures him and forces him to fight the allies in normandy

He's doing a very poor job at not being captured
Edit: or he likes it


Or he doesn't exist, apparently. Everything about him comes from an unverified comment in response to a 2005 Korean News story about an American GI who claimed that four of the prisoners he processed at the end of the war were Korean.

The name and life story all come from someone saying "yeah, one of those guys was named Yang Kyoungjong and he..."

No records of anyone by that name. Not just no records of his capture, no records at all.

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