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

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

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

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

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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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Vampires Get their True Powers on their Sixteenth Birthday

According to Wikipedia:

• "Corn Flakes are a popular breakfast cereal made by toasting flakes of corn. The cereal was first created by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1894 as a food that he thought would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where he was superintendent. The breakfast cereal proved popular among the patients, and the Kellogg Company was set up to produce corn flakes for a wider public."
• "E-textiles are fabrics that have been developed with new technologies that provide added value to the wearer.... What makes smart fabrics revolutionary is that they have the ability to do many things that traditional fabrics cannot, including communicate, transform, conduct energy, and even grow."
• List of Fictional Mustelids: "This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards of completeness. This list is limited solely to notable non-badger and non-raccoon characters that appear in works of fiction and that are in the musteloidea superfamily of mammals. This list includes weasels, ferrets, minks, otters, martens, and skunks."
• "Vampires get their true powers on their 16th birthday. Powers include: fireballs, fangs, telepathy, etc."

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Make June 23 an Official UK Independence Day from the EU

According to Wikipedia:- "Canada is frequently described as nice" on Wikipedia's site for "Kindness" - "Sonic the Hedgehog's popularity inspired a number of unofficial variants, such as Somari, a pirated Nintendo conversion game featuring Mario in levels from the original Sonic the Hedgehog Megamix" - James Bond's 2012 film Skyfall was added to Wikipedia's "List of Films Featuring Home Invasions" - "There have been discussions by British politicians and public figures, as well as general public appeals and e-petitions to government on making June 23 an annual celebrated Independence Day in the UK," following the UK referendum to leave the EU (i.e. Brexit vote)

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Man Killed by Exploding Lava Lamp

According to Wikipedia:

• Lava Lamp: "In 2004, a man was killed by a lava lamp on a kitchen stove. Heat from the stove built up pressure in the lamp until it exploded and a shard pierced his heart, causing fatal injuries.
• Footbag: In footbag net, players volley a footbag back and forth over a five-foot-high net. This game combines elements of tennis, badminton, and volleyball. Play in footbag net is very similar to Sepak Takraw: NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NUSHACK NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NET NUSHACK
• History of firefighting: "The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Marcus Licinius Crassus. One of his most lucrative schemes took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, so Crassus created his own brigade. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while their employer bargained over the price of their services with the distressed property owner. If Crassus could not negotiate a satisfactory price, his men simply let the structure burn, after which he offered to purchase it for a fraction of its value.

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Donald Trump Uses Cheetos as Facial Concealer

According to Wikipedia:

• "Cheetos have been the subject of public and media attention on multiple occasions due to Donald Trump using them as facial concealer and the unpredictable shapes that form during the manufacturing process"
• Wikipedia's site for Cranberry [Previous edit]: "Two comprehensive reviews of available research concluded that there is no evidence that cranberry compounds are effective in preventing urinary tract infections
• Wikipedia's site for Cranberry [Revised edit]: "Many studies conclude that there are benefits treating urinary tract infections with cranberries in various forms"
• Wikipedia's site for Spane was redirected to Spain, because "Spane is currently being discussed by the Wikipedia community. The outcome of the discussion may result in a change of this page, or possibly its deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy"

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Today's Top Wikipedia Edits: Scrooge McDuck is the Richest Duck in the World

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• List of Wealthiest Animals: "Flossie, a dog owned by Drew Barrymore, barked to alert then-husband Tom Green of a fire. Barrymore then put her house in trust for  Flossie to show her gratitude.... Scrooge McDuck is the richest duck in the world"
• Culture, blueberries, São Paolo, and coffee milk no longer exist
• Melania Trump "will be the second foreign-born First Lady of the United States, following Louisa Adams in 1825, and the only First Lady to date not born a citizen of the United States or in what would later become the United States"

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