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    Mar 13

    Hello, everybody. Coronavirus news is piling up, and Wikipedia editors are keeping pace. We've seen more than 12k edits by 1.9k editors on Wikipedia's article about the pandemic. For more info, head to that page: Stay safe, all.

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  2. 17 hours ago

    Have you ever wondered why you've never seen a wheeled animal? Wonder no more:

    A toy animal with wheels
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  3. Apr 16

    In a battle between helicopters and sand, the sand will eventually win. When viewed at night, though, sand hitting a helicopter's rotor causes a visible corona or halo around the rotor blades. Learn more about the Kopp-Etchells effect:

    Kopp–Etchells effect on the rotors of a MV-22 Osprey
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  4. Apr 15

    On this day one year ago: a fire severely damaged the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, destroying the building's timber spire and much of its roof.

    Notre-Dame de Paris after the fire
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  5. Apr 15

    Who is the most famous dog in history? (Wikipedia doesn't have a definitive answer, but it does have many potential candidates.)

    The legend of Gelert
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  6. Apr 14

    Have you ever edited a Wikipedia article?

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  7. Apr 14

    Stirling Moss, described by some as "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship," has died at the age of 90.

    Stirling Moss disembarking from an airplane in 1958
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  8. Apr 13

    Madam C. J. Walker is recorded as the first self-made female millionaire in the US.

    Madam C. J. Walker portrait, 1914
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  9. Apr 1

    What are you reading on Wikipedia today?

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  10. Mar 31

    In buzkashi, horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal.

    "Playing Kokpar" by Franz Roubaud
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  11. Mar 30

    (This data is from 29 March and combines pageviews from "Joe Exotic" and "Joseph Maldonado-Passage," which are the same article.)

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  12. Mar 30

    4) Joe Diffie: 5) 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India: 6) Carole Baskin:

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  13. Mar 30

    Here's the top six: 1) 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: 2) Joe Exotic: 3) Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness:

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  14. Mar 30

    Three of yesterday's most popular English Wikipedia articles were related to a certain documentary that involves tigers.

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  15. Mar 30

    *Along with Wikipedia's partner projects. Learn more:

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  16. Mar 30

    Yesterday, Wikipedias across all languages* received more than 650 million views—a new daily record.

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  17. Mar 29

    The original idea behind the "Great Green Wall" was to plant a 50 km buffer zone of trees to hold back the Sahara Desert.

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  18. Mar 29

    Ever wonder how the Los Angeles Lakers got their name? Spoiler alert: it comes from Minnesota's fabled ten thousand lakes. Yes, really. Learn more:

    Lake Superior seen from the Porcupine Mountains State Wilderness Park (admittedly only close to but not in Minnesota)
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  19. Mar 28

    Wikipedia has a list of epidemics. It goes back to 429 BCE's Plague of Athens, and continues through today's COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more:

    Plague panel with the triumph of death, from Augsburg, Germany. Panels of this kind were placed on the walls of houses to warn against the plague.
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  20. Mar 28

    During the Great Plague of London, the village of Eyam quarantined itself from the world to prevent the plague from leaving its borders. It worked—but at the cost of much of the village's population.

    St. Lawrence's Church, Eyam
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  21. Mar 27

    Peaceful nuclear explosions were once proposed for excavating canals and harbors, electrical generation, driving spacecraft, and wide-area fracking.

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