I casually clicked on an article on how they laid fibre optic cables across the ocean floor ... before I knew it is was 3 in the morning and I was an expert on the construction of fibre optic repeaters...
Damn you Wikipedia, cursed whirlpool of my time.
Post your random wikipedia adventures.
[spoiler]Article's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable]here[/url] if anyone wants to waste their time...[/spoiler]
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I started by looking up martial arts. Next thing I know, I'm reading about the most exotic capital punishments in the world throughout history...
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I once changed the Cesare Borgia article to that of the AC: Brotherhood version of him.
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Mostly the histories of companies and manufacturers lol! But the longest adventure I've ever had was when I was researching nearby abandoned mines and towns for a hiking trip some friends and I were planning. (We successful, we found ruins of old towns, open mineshafts, old mill ruins)
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When I was at school, I'd usually have done all of my work before the start of lunch so that was a good few hours of time to waste until I could go home. So it was Wikipedia or re-re-re-re-re-reading my textbook for the 14th time... So I spent hours and hours just looking up everything I could think of that I wanted to know more... So. Much. Semi-Useful. Knowledge. Wan Shi Tong ain't got nothing on Wikipedia. o.O
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I spent about 5-6 hours chasing links about Plutonium once. I actually remember more from that day than I do from lectures on similar subjects.
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I looked up something on Wikipedia. Yay. It was a cool story.