List of Wikipedia articles considered interesting, amusing or notable

Reading Wikipedia is a better way to spend your time than doomscrolling. Here are some articles that I would send to the sibling groupchat.

Animals

Exploding whale: Sometimes this is an intentional method of destroying beached whale carcasses. But sometimes it just happens naturally. (If Exploding Whale Memorial Park had its own page, I would link to it.)
Globster: Hard-to-identify carcasses that wash up onto beaches, spawning conspiracy theories. Contains the fantastic section "Notable globsters".
Hotwheels sisyphus: Species of ground spider found in China.
Ken Allen: Kenneth Allen was a Bornean orangutan known for repeatedly escaping his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
Northern short-tailed shrew: Tiny venomous mammal that can eat three times its own weight in food every day, navigates using echolocation and lines its nest with the fur of voles.
Predatoroonops: Genus of goblin spiders named after characters and other things from the 1987 movie Predator, including Predatoroonops schwarzeneggeri.
Scaly boy: Species of fish found off the coast of Central America.
Thomas (goose): RIP bisexual icon.

Democracy sausage: "Democracy sausages are sausages wrapped in slices of bread bought from a sausage sizzle operated as a fundraiser at many Australian polling places on election day, often to raise money for the institutions that host the polling place (such as schools, churches and community centres)."
Gangnam Style in popular culture: It was a different time. (Also, take a guess at how many of these parody YouTube videos were added to the list by the people who made them.)
Kevinismus: "Kevinismus ("Kevinism") is a German term for the practice of giving children trendy, exotic-sounding names as opposed to traditional German ones."
Roundabout dog: "A roundabout dog (Swedish: rondellhund) is a form of street installation and public phenomenon that began in Sweden in autumn of 2006, when anonymous people began placing homemade dog sculptures in the center of roundabouts."
Vampetaço: "Vampetaço is a form of trolling and cancelling perpetrated by Brazilians, where erotic pictures of the ex-footballer Vampeta for the G Magazine are posted on social media profiles."
Word of the year: "Cyber", "pod slurping", "subprime", "dumpster fire", "omnishambles", "permacrisis", "-ussy", "slop".

Blobject: Things that look like those old colourful iMacs.
Greeble: "Greebles, also called greeblies (singular: greebly) or nurnies, are small relief details used to give visual complexity to a model."

Battlefield EarthCritical response: Great compilation of the many, many critical roasts of this garbage movie.

Bald Knobbers: "The Bald Knobbers were a group of vigilantes in the Ozark region of southwest Missouri, United States from 1885 to 1889." (Look in the UK this is a really funny thing to name your vigilante group)
Harvey Washington Wiley: Scientist, food safety campaigner and the first commissioner of the US's Food and Drug Administration, who stopped companies from regularly putting stuff like borax and formaldehyde in food.
Painless Parker: Canadian street dentist who ran a travelling circus and was described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession".
United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola: In 1911, the US government sued Coca-Cola (or more specifically their product) because Harvey Washington Wiley believed it contained dangerous levels of caffeine.

Fossil word: "A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in use due to its presence in an idiom or phrase."

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake: Reservoir in South Carolina named after a nearby inpatient treatment centre.
Big Ass Lake: Not actually that big.
Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre: Australian swimming pool complex named after the Prime Minister who drowned while it was under construction.
Stupid Lake: Seems harsh.

Juan Pujol García: Spanish spy who created an entire network of fake informants to feed the Nazis misinformation (and convinced them to pay him the modern equivalent of $6 million in compensation).
Nancy Wake: "Resistance leader Henri Tardivat discovered Wake tangled in a tree. He remarked, 'I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year,' to which she replied, 'Cut out that bullshit and get me out of this tree.'"
Operation Mincemeat: MI5 stole a corpse, gave it a fake identity, then dumped it in the ocean with phony documents about a fake invasion in hopes the Nazis would read them (they did). Taught me the wonderful term "pocket litter".