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- 001 Marree Man
- 002 War Plan Red
- 003 Vela Incident
- 004 Tybee Bomb
- 005 United States Numbered Highways
- 006 Wow! Signal
- 007 Tube Bar Prank Calls
- 008 Kola Superdeep Borehole
- 009 Back to the Future Timeline
- 010 Year Without a Summer
- 011 K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
- 012 Sokal Affair
- 013 Blue Peacock
- 014 Veerappan
- 015 Person From Porlock
- 016 Eternal Flame
- 017 U.S. Color-Coded War Plans
- 018 The Wedge (Border)
- 019 Mohave Phone Booth
- 020 Stanislav Petrov
- 021 Valery Sablin
- 022 The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
- 023 Special Atomic Demolition Munition
- 024 Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
- 025 Prometheus (tree)
- 026 Zone of Alienation
- 027 Fan Death
- 028 Outlawries Bill
- 029 Raymond Robinson (Green Man)
- 030 Scoville Scale
- 031 Kardashev Scale
- 032 Larry Walters
- 033 Joshua A. Norton
- 034 Fabergé egg
- 035 Issei Sagawa
- 036 Joseph Jagger
- 037 Traumatic Insemination
- 038 James Joseph Dresnok
- 039 Ivy League Nude Posture Photos
- 040 Jim Corbett (Hunter)
- 041 Just-World Phenomenon
- 042 Nicholas Bourbaki
- 043 Humanzee
- 044 Old Man of the Lake
- 045 Alexamenos Graffito
- 046 Fairy Chess Piece
- 047 Michael Fagan Incident
- 048 ETAOIN SHRDLU
- 049 Palomares Hydrogen Bomb Incident
- 050 As Slow as Possible
- 051 Bouvet Island
- 052 Joshua Milton Blahyi
- 053 Centralia, Pennsylvania
- 054 The Black Book
- 055 Tehachapi Loop
- 056 Arbre du Ténéré
- 057 Hiroo Onoda
- 058 If by Whisky
- 059 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions
- 060 Planned Shrinkage
- 061 Predictions of Soviet Collapse
- 062 Clause IV
- 063 Marvin Heemeyer
- 064 Two Cunts in a Kitchen
- 065 Octopus Wrestling
- 066 Cliff Young
- 067 Sylvestre Matuschka
- 068 Gustave (Crocodile)
- 069 Leatherman (vagabond)
- 070 Saddam Hussein’s Novels
- 071 Battle cry
- 072 Doomsday Argument
- 073 Egg of Columbus
- 074 Technical Tap
- 075 Martial Races Theory
- 076 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
- 077 Cherubina de Gabriak
- 078 Hapax Legomenon
- 079 Descent From Antiquity
- 080 Graham’s Number
- 081 Laconia Incident
- 082 Margaret Hogg
- 083 Richard C. Weaver
- 084 Casu Marzu
- 085 Bummer and Lazarus
- 086 Rochom P’ngieng
- 087 Russell’s Teapot
- 088 Bloody Island (Mississippi River)
- 089 Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
- 090 Oak Island
- 091 Norwegian Rocket Incident
- 092 Brian Douglas Wells
- 093 Flag of Bikini Atoll
- 094 Iron Pillar of Delhi
- 095 Shades of Death Road
- 096 Caste-Related Violence in India
- 097 Wild Bill Hickok-Davis Tutt shootout
- 098 Highest Unclimbed Mountain
- 099 Lady Be Good (aircraft)
- 100 Ideal German Campaign
- 101 Leck Mich Im Arsch
- 102 Atomic Bomb Go Game
- 103 Paris 1968
- 104 Dioxippus
- 105 Fleet in Being
- 106 Frontier Thesis
- 107 Gaëtan Dugas
- 108 Color of the Bikeshed
- 109 Burst of Joy
- 110 Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight
- 111 Cymothoa exigua
- 112 Harry K. Daghlian Jr.
- 113 Kinetic Bombardment
- 114 Vasili Arkhipov
- 115 Jerimoth Hill
- 116 Yukio Mishima
- 117 Tom and Eileen Lonergan
- 118 Royal Fish
- 119 George P. Burdell
- 120 Cincinnati Subway
- 121 Dugway Sheep Incident
- 122 Lichtenberg’s Avertissement
- 123 Drake’s Plate of Brass
- 124 Hansa Carrier
- 125 Lace Card
- 126 Atari Video Game Burial
- 127 Blood in the Water Match
- 128 Cowboy
- 129 Degree Confluence Project
- 130 Lp0 on Fire
- 131 1973 National Archives Fire
- 132 Baldwin Street, Dunedin
- 133 Blood-Vomiting Game
- 134 P = NP Problem
- 135 Tree That Owns Itself
- 136 Cadaver Synod
- 137 Stagger Lee
- 138 Three Whom God Should Not Have Created
- 139 Lake Woebegon Effect
- 140 Champawat Tiger
- 141 Minor Scale
- 142 Dunning-Kruger effect
- 143 Gaslighting
- 144 Lead Masks Case
- 145 Perfidious Albion
- 146 Aokigahara
- 147 Height of Land Portage
- 148 Martha Mitchell Effect
- 149 Ashley’s Hundred
- 150 Dead Hand (nuclear war)
- 151 Man Singh (dacoit)
- 152 And you are lynching Negros
- 153 Brfxxccxxmnpcccc….
- 154 Locus Amoenus
- 155 Lloyds Bank Coprolite
- 156 David A. Johnston
- 157 Leopard of Rudraprayag
- 158 Adolf Lu Hitler Marak
- 159 Aron Ralston
- 160 Boot Monument
- 161 Mise En Abyme
- 162 Larry Mattlage
- 163 Mel’s Hole
- 164 Eric Moussambani
- 165 Baghdad Battery
- 166 Corinthian Leather
- 167 Mount Yamantaw
- 168 Atacama Desert
- 169 Anaconda Smelter Stack
- 170 Air New Zealand Flight 901
- 171 Bear JJ1
- 172 Category:Water towers
- 173 List of leaning towers
- 174 List of tallest buildings and structures in the world by country
- 175 List of lost artworks
- 176 List of lost works
- 178 List of lost films
- 179 List of belief systems
- 180 List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States
- 181 Category:Self-immolations
- 182List of modern pretenders to the throne
- 183 List of the last monarchs in the Americas
- 184 Category:Delusional disorder
- 185 List of Amtrak routes
- 186 Category:Shipwrecks of the United States
- 187 Extreme points of Earth
- 188 List of micronations
- 189 List of cattle breeds
- 190 Anthropodermic bibliopegy
- 191 Elm Farm Ollie
- 192 EURion constellation
- 193 (the) Demon core
- 194 Pole of inaccessibility
- 195 Globster
- 196 Hoba meteorite
- 197 Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
- 198 GRB 971214
- 199 “Resolute” desk
- 200 Candace Newmaker
- 201 Cryptomnesia
- 202 Hans Island
- 203 Harrowing of Hell
- 204 Semantic satiation
- 205 Dempster Highway
- 206 Dalton Highway
- 207 Paul Felix Armand-Delille
- 208 Herschel Island
- 209 Stone spheres of Costa Rica
- 210 Paternoster
- 211 Self-immolation
- 212 Narco submarine
- 213 Louis Slotin
- 214 Language deprivation experiments
- 215 London Stone
- 216 Cité Soleil
- 217 Blood chit
- 218 Parsley Massacre
- 219 Ribbon Creek Incident
- 220 Art intervention
- 221 Impostor
- 222 Bata LoBagola
- 223 Cheating at the Paralympic Games
- 224 David Hempleman-Adams
- 225 Dancing Plague of 1518
- 226 Park Young Seok
- 227 Houston Riot (1917)
- 228 Albert Pierrepoint
- 229 Discoveries of human feet on British Columbia beaches
- 230 Taman Shud Case
- 231 Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
- 232 First flying machine
- 233 Defeat in Detail
- 234 Peppered moth evolution
- 235 Resource holding potential
- 236 Saint Dismas
- 237 Target girl
- 238 Longevity myths
- 239 SL-1
- 240 List of Cognative Biases
- 241 Narratology
- 242 Military Strategy
- 243 Stock Characters
- 244 List of People Who Have Disappeared
- 245 List of Military Nuclear Accidents
- 246 Nan Madol
- 247 List of Fatal Bear Attacks in North America by Decade
- 248 List of Military Tactics
- 249 List of Massacres
- 250 Cognative Biases
- 251 Stock Characters
- 252 Hoaxes
- 253 List of Numbered Highways in the United States
- 254 List of Extremely Hazardous Substances
- 255 List of Famous Trees
- 256 The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- 257 List of Heroic Stock Characters
- 258 List of Paradoxes
- 259 List of the Largest Artificial Non-Nuclear Explosions
- 260 List of Places Blurred Out On Google Maps
- 261 Plot Devices
- 262 Exploration
- 263 Paradoxes
- 264 List of Memory Biases
- 265 Ship Types
- 266 Rhetorical Techniques
- 267 Logical Fallacies
- 268 List of Fatal Wolf Attacks
- 269 Rules of Thumb
- 270 Extreme Points of the World
- 271 Gestures
- 272 List of Rainbow Codes
- 273 Semantics
- 274 List of Poisonings
- 275 List of American Defectors in the Korean War
- 276 List of Statues of Lenin
- 277 Controversies
- 278 List of Explorers
- 279 List of Self-Contradicting Words in English
- 280 Nuclear Tests
- 281 Motif of Harmful Sensation
- 282 Word Play
- 283 List of Deaths on Eight Thousanders
- 284 Phantom Islands
- 285 List of Camouflage Patterns
- 286 Indian Castes
- 287 Modern Street Gangs
- 288 Phrases
- 289 Bible Errata
- 290 English Words With Uncommon Properties
- 291 List of Unusual Personal Names
- 292 Unsolved Problems
- 293 American Old West Gunfights
- 294 Nuclear Warfare
- 295 Chord Progressions
- 296 List of Cognative Biases
- 297 Narratology
- 298 Military Strategy
- 299 Stock Characters
- 300 List of People Who Have Disappeared
- 301 List of Military Nuclear Accidents
- 302 Mysterious People
- 303 List of Fatal Bear Attacks in North America by Decade
- 304 List of Military Tactics
- 305 List of Massacres
- 306 Cognative Biases
- 307 Stock Characters
- 308 Hoaxes
- 309 List of Numbered Highways in the United States
- 310 List of Extremely Hazardous Substances
- 311 List of Famous Trees
- 312 The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- 313 List of Heroic Stock Characters
- 314 List of Paradoxes
- 315 List of the Largest Artificial Non-Nuclear Explosions
- 316 List of Places Blurred Out On Google Maps
- 317 Plot Devices
- 318 Exploration
- 319 Paradoxes
- 320 List of Memory Biases
- 321 Ship Types
- 322 Rhetorical Techniques
- 323 Logical Fallacies
- 324 List of Fatal Wolf Attacks
- 325 Rules of Thumb
- 326 Extreme Points of the World
- 327 Gestures
- 328 List of Rainbow Codes
- 329 Semantics
- 330 List of Poisonings
- 331 List of American Defectors in the Korean War
- 332 List of Statues of Lenin
- 333 Controversies
- 334 List of Explorers
- 335 List of Self-Contradicting Words in English
- 336 Nuclear Tests
- 337 Motif of Harmful Sensation
- 338 Word Play
- 339 List of Deaths on Eight Thousanders
- 340 Phantom Islands
- 341 List of Camouflage Patterns
- 342 Indian Castes
- 343 Modern Street Gangs
- 344 Phrases
- 345 Bible Errata
- 346 English Words With Uncommon Properties
- 347 List of Unusual Personal Names
- 348 Unsolved Problems
- 349 American Old West Gunfights
- 350 Nuclear Warfare
- 351 Chord Progressions
- 352 Sheela na Gig
- 353 Lunokhod 1
- 354 Chocolate Hills
- 355 Polar Bear Expedition
- 356 Glienicke Bridge
- 357 Green Boots
- 358 Universal Nut Sheller
- 359 Ryugyong Hotel
- 360 Sam Kee Building
- 361 Almighty Gaylords
- 362 Christopher McCandless
- 363 Feynman Point
- 364 Hart Island,New York
- 365 War of the Golden Stool
- 366 Cormorant Fishing
- 367 Magic Roundabout
- 368 Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
- 369 Dead Cat Bounce
- 370 Fugu Plan
- 371 Seacoast Defense in the United States
- 372 Mobro 4000
- 373 Clock of the Long Now
- 374 Kowloon Walled City
- 375 Hoa Ky
- 376 Märket
- 377 Uncontacted Peoples
- 378 Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula
- 379 North Sentinel Island
- 380 Sarajevo Rose
- 381 Bridge of No Return
- 382 Happy Valley set
- 383 Kenton Joel Carnegie Wolf Attack
- 384 Hannah Twynnoy
- 385 Generations of Chinese Leadership
- 386 Acoustic Mirror
- 387 Friendly Floatees
- 388 Japanese War Tuba
- 389 Orbiting Frog Otolith Satellite
- 390 Posthumous Name
- 391 Forest Swastika
- 392 St. Pierre et Miquelon
- 393 USA193
- 394 Mummy Brown
- 395 Pneumatic Refuse Collection
- 396 Carthago Delenda Est
- 397 Oakeshott Typology
- 398 Pit of Despair
- 399 Onion Futures Act
- 340 Copper Peak
- 341 USS S-51
- 342 Niihau Incident
- 343 Craig D. Button
- 344 Bigfoot Trap
- 345 Axe Murder Incident
- 346 John Titor
- 347 English as She is Spoke
- 348 Bicycle Infantry
- 349 RKO Forty Acres
- 350 Germany Must Perish!
- 351 BACH Motif
- 352 List of common misconceptions
- 353 Category: Filmed deaths
- 354 E Number
- 355 U.S. islands by area
- 356 Sunken Battleships
- 357 Category: Nonexistent people
- 358 People who have declined a British honour
- 359 Rhyme Structure
- 360 Out-of-place artifacts
- 361 List of rowing blades
- 362 Category: Bulgarian sumo wrestlers
- 363 List of demons
- 364 List of Indian castes
- 365 Aron Ralston
- 366 Oath of vengeance
- 367 Human-baiting
- 368 Karl Bushby
- 369 Battle of Los Angeles
- 370 Weather Station Kurt
- 371 Darien Gap
- 372 Fire balloon
- 373 Prince Philip Movement
- 374 John Frum
- 375 Boyd Massacre
- 376 Byford Dolphin diving bell accident
- 377 Dagen H
- 378 KVLY-TV mast
- 379 Pitch drop experiment
- 380 St Scholastica riot
- 381 Oxford Electric Bell
- 382 Nine Worthies
- 383 Nuclear Football
- 384 Yanomamö
- 385 Pintupi Nine
- 386 Operation Auca
- 387 Sentinelese
- 388 Miraculin
- 389 Kuleshov Effect
- 390 Oliver Sipple
- 391 Darvaza
- 392 Wanda Tinasky
- 393 Iceland Spar
- 394 Mary’s Room
- 395 Skeleton Coast
- 396 Crush, Texas
- 397 the Greenbriar
- 398 Quickfire
- 399 Boiling Lake
- 400 Action Park
- 401 Dyatlov Pass Accident
- 402 Honorary whites
- 403 Digit Ratio
- 404 Art Theft
- 405 Wire recording
- 406 Net cutter
- 407 Richard Honeck
- 408 Pruitt-Igoe
- 409 High-water mark of the Confederacy
- 410 Dean’s Blue Hole
- 411 Mobile Bay jubilee
- 412 Category:Design for X
- 413 Category:Engineering Failures
- 414 Category:Mountaineering deaths
- 415 Category:Race Riots in the United States
- 416 Category:Road Junction Types
- 417 Category:Satellites
- 418 Category:Scales
- 419 Comparison of Heavy Lift Launch Systems
- 420 Gallup’s List of Widely Admired People
- 421 List of American Old West Outlaws
- 422 List of Artificial Radiation Belts
- 423 List of Cities in the Americas with Alternative Names
- 424 List of College Fight Songs
- 425 List of Discredited Substances
- 426 List of Frivolous Political Parties
- 427 List of Giant Sequoia Groves
- 428 List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
- 429 List of Merritt Island Launch Sites
- 430 List of Nuclear Tests
- 431 List of People Pardoned by a U.S. President
- 432 List of Roman Gladiator Types
- 433 List of System Quality Attributes
- 434 List of Tallest Chimneys in the World
- 435 List of World’s Fairs
- 436 Patron Saints of Ailments, Illness and Dangers
- 437 Patron Saints of Occupations and Activities
- 438 1MC
- 439 Anchorite
- 440 Anscombe’s Quartet
- 441 Armstrong Limit
- 442 Automated Vacuum Collection
- 443 Bear Camp Road
- 444 Berlin Gold Hat
- 445 Brevity Code
- 446 Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- 447 Chronicon
- 448 CIA Cryptonym
- 449 Coffin Ship
- 450 Colonial Street
- 451 CubeSat
- 452 Diverging Diamond Interchange
- 453 Draupner Wave
- 454 Gainclone
- 455 Garry Hoy
- 456 Gömböc
- 457 Graham’s Number
- 458 High Arctic Relocation
- 459 James Kim
- 460 Map-Territory Relation
- 461 Money Illusion
- 462 NFPA 704
- 463 ODESSA
- 464 Plimsoll Line
- 465 Repugnant market
- 466 Richard Parker
- 467 S. A. Andrée’s Arctic balloon expedition of 1897
- 468 Sable Island
- 469 Singular They
- 470 Slab City
- 471 Smith Chart
- 472 Sokushinbutsu
- 473 Spaghetti Junction
- 474 Starfish Prime
- 475 Stevens’ Power Law
- 476 Thirty-Mile Zone
- 477 Ultimate Boeing 747 Gambit
- 478 Unused Highway
- 479 USA 193
- 480 Vendée Globe
- 481 Category: Medical Signs
- 482 CIA Cryptonyms
- 483 Category: Race riots in the United States
- 484 Category: Valley of the Kings
- 485 List of Frivolous Political Parties
- 486 List of Most Massive Stars
- 487 Category: Named Interchanges
- 488 Category: Fads
- 489 List of Most Expensive Photographs
- 490 List of Unused Highways in the United States
- 491 List of Unusual Uses of Traffic Lights
- 492 List of Camouflage Patterns
- 493 Category: Road Junction Types
- 494 List of Individual Stradivari Instruments
- 495 List of Chicken Breeds
- 496 Category: Ski Jumping Venues
- 497 List of the World’s Most Expensive Single Objects
- 498 List of world’s fairs
- 499 Category: Model Organisms
- 500 Category: Submarine Telecommunications Cables
- 501 List of Tomato Cultivars
- 502 List of System Quality Attributes
- 503 List of Discredited Substances
- 504 List of Persons Known as the Father or Mother of a Field
- 505 Lists of Most Common Surnames
- 506 List of Musical Works in Unusual Time Signatures
- 507 List of Terms Referring to Homosexuals in Different Languages
- 508 Island Gigantism
- 509 Michael Malloy
- 510 Alexander, King of the Hellenes
- 511 Bloop
- 512 Anglo-Zanzibar War
- 513 Rogue Wave
- 514 Russian Woodpecker
- 515 Great American Streetcar Scandal
- 516 Tadeusz Kosciuszko
- 517 Tuvan Throat Singing
- 518 Hákarl
- 519 Population Transfer in the Soviet Union
- 520 Timothy Dexter
- 521 Maunsell Forts
- 522 Works of Hieronymus Bosch
- 523 List of Cryptids
- 524 Linguistic Relativity
- 525 Pirahã language
- 526 World Press Photo of the Year
- 527 Simo Häyhä
- 528 Salar de Uyuni
- 529 Misznay-Schardin Effect
- 530 Children’s Crusade
- 531 Bermuda Triangle
- 532 Folly
- 533 Gravity hill
- 533 List of Eiffel Tower replicas
- 534 List of fictional island nations
- 535 List of tautological place names
- 536 Pizza farm
- 537 Spite house
- 538 Tarrare