Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Wing Commander]

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

Oil rig drilling in a lake drilled into a mineshaft by accident. The result was the entire lake draining into the mineshaft system, taking with it the entire oil rig, 11 barges, loads of trees and 3 dogs. The 9 of the 11 barges popped up days later and the lake is now permanently salt water filled!

[SpeckledJim]

Wing Commander said:

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

Oil rig drilling in a lake drilled into a mineshaft by accident. The result was the entire lake draining into the mineshaft system, taking with it the entire oil rig, 11 barges, loads of trees and 3 dogs. The 9 of the 11 barges popped up days later and the lake is now permanently salt water filled!

"Good day at work, dear"

[omgus]

SpeckledJim said:

Wing Commander said:

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

Oil rig drilling in a lake drilled into a mineshaft by accident. The result was the entire lake draining into the mineshaft system, taking with it the entire oil rig, 11 barges, loads of trees and 3 dogs. The 9 of the 11 barges popped up days later and the lake is now permanently salt water filled!

"Good day at work, dear"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI

[mrtwisty]

From the 'Irrational distrust' thread. Too much sclera visible in your eyes? Bad news!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

[downthepub]

Sounds like an interesting guy to be around :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

[Amused2death]

Unethical human experimentation in the USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_exper...

Nice to know how transparent they were.....

[dudleybloke]

Amused2death said:

Unethical human experimentation in the USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_exper...

Nice to know how transparent they were.....

They are still doing some very wrong things.
Look up epa pesticide testing on orphans/mentally ill children.

[ZOLLAR]

Read about Walter Stack after reading the Nike article in the DM.
Interesting guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Stack

[Dan_1981]

A little morbid, but I'd never even heard of this massacre

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald...

[Siko]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Emael

German Glider borne raid on an impregnable fortress at the start of ww2.....way ahead of their time.

[andrew_huxtable]

Dan_1981 said:

A little morbid, but I'd never even heard of this massacre

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald...

You didn't happen to see a youtube video about a gun shop opening in New York city recently?

[ZOLLAR]

Dan_1981 said:

A little morbid, but I'd never even heard of this massacre

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald...

Just read all of that, bloody horrific.

[24lemons]

andrew_huxtable said:

You didn't happen to see a youtube video about a gun shop opening in New York city recently?

I read the wiki article after seeing that video. Having visited San Diego recently I was just curious where it was. Horrific article to read.

[WreckedGecko]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiser_submarine

Never heard of anything even remotely similar...

[Asterix]

Alsos Mission - special intelligence unit during WWII to capture nuclear weapons tech and scientists from the Axis countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsos_Mission

[Dan_1981]

andrew_huxtable said:

Dan_1981 said:

A little morbid, but I'd never even heard of this massacre

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald...

You didn't happen to see a youtube video about a gun shop opening in New York city recently?

Indeed I did.

Which led me to Wiki and then to posting the article!

Eye opener that i'd never even heard of it though.

[dudleybloke]

The straw hat riot.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

[FredClogs]

dudleybloke said:

The straw hat riot.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

fk me that's proper mental, and people complain about the youths of today.

[simoid]

FredClogs said:

fk me that's proper mental, and people complain about the youths of today.

Never heard of that previously - so mental it's difficult to believe it's not a pisstake!

[Enjin]

Most have heard of Oskar Schindler. Very few have heard of Chiune Sugihara, here's what he did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara