Creepy Wikipedia

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A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust

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submitted 1 year ago by WillardHerman@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be sure to read up on their reproductive cycle, easily one of the strangest in the world.

[–] WillardHerman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was the deciding factor in posting it.

So weird. But nature is filled to the brim with weird.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Awesome :-) It really is weirder than fiction.

Good book I read years ago you might like. Dr. Tatiana's Advice to all Creation is a catalog of strange animal mating practices told in the style of a newspaper advice columnist.

[–] IntergalacticZombie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Wait... I thought those only existed on Dark Bramble??!