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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Donald E. Ballard Survived Falling on a Grenade Due to Grenade Malfunction

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According to Wikipedia:

  • "When a sheriff complained about how a 'state senator in Texas...was talking about legislation to require conviction before receiving forfeiture money,' President Trump responded, 'Who is the state senator? Do you want to give me his name? We'll destroy his career'"
  • Powell River, BC is "really a nice place to live," says a resident
  • "Falling on a grenade refers to the deliberate act of using one's body to cover a live time-fused hand grenade, absorbing the explosion...in an effort to save the lives of others nearby. Since this is almost universally fatal, it is considered a...selfless act of individual sacrifice in wartime." Donald E. Ballard survived falling on a grenade due to "grenade malfunction"
  • Queen Elizabeth II's Mistress of the Robes is Fortune FizRoy, Duchess of Grafton
  • "Cantharidin is an odorless, colorless terpenoid secreted by blister beetles"

 

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Jeff Sessions Previously Urged Sally Yates to Disobey Unlawful Executive Orders

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According to Wikipedia:

  • During former US Attorney General Sally Yates' confirmation hearing, Jeff Sessions (recently nominated by President Trump as Yates' replacement) "urged Yates to disobey unlawful executive orders"
  • Notable current tenants of Trump Tower: Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruce Willis, Juan Beckmann Vidal (owner of tequila brand Jose Cuervo), Gucci, CONCACAF, Qatar Airways
  • "In Japan and Korea, the "O Mark" (marujirushi) is used instead of the checkmark, and the checkmark is commonly used instead of an "X" for wrong"
  • If you acquire the board game Acquire, an "instruction manual is included in all versions"
  • "Less than two years prior to the Miracle of the Gulls in 1848, many Mormon settlers were saved by quail that flew into their camp, on their trek to the Great Salt Lake, and made available as food"

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Alternate Facts Link to Newspeak

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According to Wikipedia:

  • "In the city of Oaxaca on Dec. 23, there is an unusual event called La Noche de los Rabanos. Oversized radishes are carved into elaborate figures. Originally, these were for nativity scenes but today, there is a major competition in which the vegetables are carved into all kinds of figures."
  • Gelignite was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1875, "who also invented dynamite. Unlike dynamite, gelignite does not suffer from the dangerous problem of sweating, the leaking of unstable nitroglycerine from the solid matrix... One of the cheapest explosives, gelignite burns slowly and cannot explode without a detonator, so it can be stored safely."
  • "Alternate facts" links to "Newspeak."
  • "A tame bear, also called a dancing bear, is a wild bear captured when the animal is young, or born and bred in captivity, and used to entertain people in streets or taverns.... They were still present in the streets of Spain in 2007."

 

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: The 2005 Release of "King Kong" Challenged Vanilla's Dominance Over Banana Cream-filled Twinkies

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According to Wikipedia:

  • Barack Obama pardoned the 1,325th person of his presidency, Chelsea Manning
  • "Kernel Panic" is an action taken by an operating system upon detecting an internal fatal error from which it cannot safely recover"
  • "Realizing that several machines used to make cream-filled strawberry shortcakes sat idle when strawberries were out of season, James Dewar conceived a snack cake filled with banana cream, which he dubbed the Twinkie... During WWII, bananas were rationed and the company was forced to switch to vanilla cream. This change proved popular... [but] vanilla's dominance over banana flavouring would be challenged in 2005 following a month-long promotion of the movie King Kong"
  • "Burger King was a fast food restaurant chain in Edmonton, also known as Burger King Drive-Inn. It was founded by former Imperial Oil executives... It was not related to the worldwide Burger King chain... Its signature item was the mushroom burger... In 1975, the company held a franchise for Kentucky Fried Chicken in Edmonton, with its outlets promoting dual branding. However, as the market became more competitive, the relationship between the two companies deteriorated, with KFC taking legal action to end the partnership... Several Burger King restaurants [have since] joined the Burger Baron chain"

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