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| | USATODAY.com - Remarkable Wikipedia has unusual corners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | While that may sound like an invitation for someone, shall we say, outside the mainstream to post an article stating that the North Pole is actually just outside Blowing Rock, North Carolina, there are some 12,999 other amateur editors ready to catch and debate such claims. |
 | | As for the Unusual Articles index, it certainly won't be the end of the world if some of the claims made in these articles prove untrue, but their very nature places many of them in the "too strange to be fiction" category. |
 | | Other articles investigate the comedic theory that some words are inherently funny (candidates include umlaut, hornswoggle, and rutabaga), and the surprisingly common, and let's face it, slightly pathetic, use of the umlaut in an attempt to bestow credibility on Heavy Metal bands (as in Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, and maybe someday, Rütabaga). |
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