What are the most unsettling Wikipedia articles you know?

After watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, Alex Mitchell, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure due to what doctors discovered years later, via his granddaughter, was a genetic condition called Long QT syndrome.

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There exists an article about death during sex and the first notable case is a Pope!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_during_consensual_sex

Europe had similar battles in Glasgow, the boat attack in Sweden, etc.

The failure of fascism and threat of communism helped a lot. I.e. in Sweden many aristocrats lost investments in Germany, and there was a bigger push for compromise after the war. Meanwhile the Marshall Plan poured a lot of money into Europe (in return for ousting Communists from government in Italy and France).

Guess who trained those Guatemalan commandos? It was a program run by the CIA out of Border Patrol facilities, largely staffed Border Patrol staff since they could speak Spanish.

So now you have refugees fleeing Guatemala's history of intense violence, being abused at the border and turned away by the very same agency that destabilized their country to begin with.

The US has so much fucking blood on its hands and owes so many reparations to the rest of the world for the damage it's done.

The US prosecuted any American citizens involved in this. The US supports many small nations and without that support, many fledgling nations would fully collapse and be far worse off.

I don't live in a world where perfection is possible. In a war torn country, there will always be individuals who will do evil shit. Even on the more good side. Do you think not a single Ukraine soldier has not done something immoral or illegal? Yet we support them.

I wish there were no conflicts in the world but we need to grow up and realize there will be serious misconduct. And that is the cost of trying to encourage stability. The thing I take away from this is that the US did prosecute any of their citizens that were involved in this. As they should.

I always found these Wikipedia articles underwhelming, but listening to the CBC podcast and behind the bastards episodes on the specific victims of the program and how the scientists at McGill intentionally destroyed their brains purely through psychological torture is incredibly heart wrenching.

Also interesting that there's evidence that the Unabomber was a victim of some of the mkultra program.

I came to post exactly that. The proven and acknowledged aspects of MKUltra are frightening, without even getting into the conspiratorial accusations.

The page on the Church Committee is a great starting point for learning more about similar covert projects.

COINTELPRO in particular is very frightening.

Obligatory relevant xkcd

That second incident is pure Dudes Rock territory - absolutely insane.

This is always the one I go to to really freak people out. The idea that there's no way you can influence it so you shouldn't actually worry about it takes a while to set it.

Do we know for sure if the fine structure constant is actually constant now? That could stop atoms from existing. iirc

The internet historian has a great video on Nutty Putty Cave.

https://youtu.be/nnIoZKxzl0

And the article couldnt help but squeeze in some anecdotes about some helpful cultish Mormons.

Came here to post this. The blood boiling was particularly unsettling.

Saw his nickname and noped the fuck out.

That link better stays blue. What is it about?

Fuckin hell dude. Also, I found the names weird - Elephant butte, truth and consequences.

Shit and vomit inducing wiki for me was rose west's wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_West

The people who dissapeared between 1910 and 1970 however arent very interesting

Imagine all of exitence ceases to exist and humans decide to refer to it as the "Big Slurp"

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Cool! Thx very much!

It was an avalanche. Oddly enough, they figured that out based on how the snow was generated in Frozen.