A list of interesting Wikipedia articles

• Wikipedia:Unusual articles - One of Wikipedia's best pages.
• Synaesthesia - Pick which shape is named Booba, and which shape is named Kiki.
• Snowball Earth - It was very cold once.
• Noctilucent cloud - Clouds that inhabit the mesosphere at an altitude of around 85km.
• Yellowstone Caldera - Kaboom! One way of getting rid of America.
• Cumbre Vieja - A Volcano in the Canary Islands. Another way of getting rid of America.
• Storegga Slide - Caused a megatsunami that occurred in 6100 BC off Norway.
• Siberian Traps - Siberia created by lava flows.
• Tunguska event - A comet hits Siberia in 1908. 10 - 15 megatons!
• Vitim event - A meteorite hits Siberia in 2002. Only 4-5 kilotons.
• Avro Arrow - A Canadian Jet Fighter that was scrapped despite being one of the best designed planes in the world at the time.
• New Coke - Never made it to Australia. I would've liked to have tasted it.
• Adventure (Atari 2600) - Created by Warren Robinett
• Silverpit crater, Shiva crater, Boltysh crater and Chicxulub crater all formed about 65 million years ago.
• The Star Wars Holiday Special - I saw this as a kid and it has been burned into my memory like overcooked marshmallows.
• Intercontinental Peace Bridge - A proposed bridge between Siberia and Alaska across the Bering Strait.
• Amartya Sen - My type of Economist.
• Strange matter - "The ruptures ripped through the planet at hundreds of kilometres per second rather than fracturing only near the surface, as typical earthquakes do. One event occurred on 22 October 1993, when, according to the researchers, something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India 0.73 of a second later."[5]
• Hans Guido Mutke - German fighter pilot who claimed to have gone through the sound barrier during the Second World War.
• Polymath - I see myself as one.
• Black Sea deluge theory - A theory that proposes that the Mediterranean Sea spilled over the Bosporus around 5600 BC, and connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
• Tollmann's hypothetical bolide - Earth hit by meterorites about 10000 years ago that killed off lots of plants and animals.
• Passenger Pigeon - An extinct bird that went from 2 Billion to zero in just over 100 years.
• Alan Bean - The fourth man on the moon. No one remembers him.