This originated on another post, but I think it deserves it's own.
by thenewgreen 1 day ago · link · edit · delete Have you seen this TED Talk about the encyclopedia game? It's something we could play here on Hubski. We should try using Wikipedia. The game is easy, you read a wikipedia post until you find something you didn't know and then link to that Wikipedia post and you keep continuing....
I'll start it off with a topic: Taiwan.
Your challenge (or anyone else that is interested), should you accept is to read this Wiki post until you get to something you didn't know and then post here and we can continuously learn our way through wikipedia. Or we can take this show elsewhere and make a new post so as not to disturb the beauty of this one.
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by JakobVirgil 21 hours ago · link · ! I did not Know Taiwan had more Islands than Formosa. Penghu
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by thenewgreen 18 hours ago · link · edit · delete I didn't know about Chinas Flight 611 mid-air disintegration.
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by winston 11 hours ago · link · ! I was introduced to the term Explosive Decompression
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by caio 23 minutes ago · link · +! I learned the difference between hypoxia and hypoxemia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)
So we left off at Hypoxia and hypoxemia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)
I hadn't known that the "smallest veins" were referred to as the Thebesian Veins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest_cardiac_veins
I actually didn't know that the inner parts of Stockholm consist of fourteen islands. Maybe I should visit it.
I didn't realize that Sweden's monarchs lived in Drottingholm Palace. Check out the palace: