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Nap time came early for my kid today. This isn’t a typical Wednesday, but nap time typically comes early on Wednesdays, because on typical Wednesdays he has school on the Upper West Side in the...

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The Wikipedia journey started at French Guiana, because French Guiana is one of the very few places in the Americas where no one has ever visited TedQuarters. It finished with one of the most fas...

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I have no idea why. From the Wikipedia: Pop Goes the Weasel. “Pop Goes the Weasel” is a common children’s song, numbered 5249 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The lyrics of the version I grew u...

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I got unexpectedly busy this afternoon. I was going to write up something to recap Ty Cobb’s Wikipedia page, but really, you should just read the whole thing. Turns out Ty Cobb was crazy, in ma...

http://tedquarters.net/2012/11/28/ty-cobbs-wikipedia-page-is-the-most-fascinating-thing-youll-read-today/

Straight-up: I Googled “Best Wikipedia page ever” and this came up. And it’s pretty great. From the Wikipedia: List of common misconceptions The Wikipedia’s list of common misconceptions ...

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Can’t even remember where I started, but this is where I wound up. From the Wikipedia: List of Phobias. The suffix -phobia, in psychiatry, is used to construct a word meaning a crippling, irrat...

http://tedquarters.net/2012/09/05/from-the-wikipedia-list-of-phobias/

I was enjoying some Haribo Gold-Bears last night and thinking, “man, Haribo makes by far the best gummy bears.” I even thought to myself that Haribo’s gummy is so superior to all others tha...

http://tedquarters.net/2012/08/29/from-the-wikipedia-gummy-bear/

This comes from the new-to-me but now defunct Tumblr Best of Wikipedia. From the Wikipedia: Tool use by animals. The Wikipedia provides a few definitions of tools, but presumably you know what to...

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I’ll never not be entertained by old-timey baseball stuff. From the Wikipedia: Pud Galvin James Francis Galvin was born on Christmas day of 1856 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up in an Irish n...

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I brought my bike to the city a few weeks ago and I’ve been riding around a good deal. It’s awesome. I really can’t say enough for bicycling as an inexpensive means of transportation and ex...

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