The Inventory

Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,664,405-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

8/18/19

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Plenty of sci-fi futures are now in the past

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8/11/19

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1999’s most anticipated film was a childhood-ruining debacle

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8/4/19

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This artist’s nudes gave him a bad reputation. His solution? Paint more nudes

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7/28/19

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How many friends do you have? Science says it’s less than 150

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7/21/19

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For waffles, life began as a communion wafer

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7/14/19

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Dorothy Gibson starred in a film about the Titanic only a month after surviving its sinking

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7/7/19

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China once had such a monopoly on porcelain we just call it “china”

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6/30/19

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The ironclad rule of Russian politics? Every other leader goes bald

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6/23/19

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Bi erasure is a problem on TV as in life, but one that's gradually improving

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6/16/19

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Meet the trans man who fought in the Civil War

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6/9/19

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Pulp fiction was cheap, salacious, and one of the only venues for lesbian love stories

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6/2/19

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This lawyer helped pioneer the gay rights movement in late-1800s Germany

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5/26/19

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Up and atom! This kid built his own nuclear reactor

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5/19/19

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When a nightmare becomes reality: These people committed murder in their sleep

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5/12/19

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Move over, Warby Parker, somebody made glasses for chickens

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5/5/19

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Dioramas can be murder!

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4/28/19

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Bah! Peppermint “humbugs” poisoned 200 people in 1850s Britain

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4/21/19

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In the past 50 years, one thing U.S. Senators have agreed on is candy—but barely

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4/14/19

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Before the Targaryens, there were medieval France’s Accursed Kings

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4/7/19

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In 1726, a woman convinced doctors she had given birth to rabbits

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