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.

Kevinismus: "Kevinismus ("Kevinism") is a German term for the practice of giving children trendy, exotic-sounding names as opposed to traditional German ones."
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."

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.

Painless Parker: Canadian street dentist who ran a travelling circus and was described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession".

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".