23 Deep, Dark Rabbit Holes to Fall Down When You’re Bored

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23 Deep, Dark Rabbit Holes to Fall Down When You’re Bored

Falling head over heels into a good old fashioned Wikipedia hole is a delightful way to spend the hours of 1 to 3 a.m. It hits a very specific sort of satisfaction, where on one hand you know you should probably be sleeping, but on the other, you’re learning, which means this is a borderline responsible activity. Plus, who knows when someone will need some information on war elephants?

The hardest part can sometimes be finding a suitable informational swamp to wade further into. Thankfully, Reddit provides. Users shared their favorite dives to get swept up in, all of which are great options to read about in your laptop-lit bed while absentmindedly picking at your face.

monacelli Зу ago The 'saved' section of your reddit user profile. I've saved so much shit and then promptly forgot about it.. Just like I'm going to do with this thread. 11K Share ...
SquareVehicle Зу ago Edited Зу ago Fire disasters. And then never feel safe in an indoor crowded space ever again. There's actually video on YouTube of the Great White disaster and it's utterly horrifying how incredibly quickly it happens and seeing the people literally stuck in the doorway unable to get out as they burn to death. As someone who still goes to a lot of shows at small packed music venues exactly like that one (and other totally packed bars and clubs), I'm always constantly looking for exits to find the nearest escape path and it always freaks me
PreviousTea9210 Зу ago Feral children. 7K Share ...
aus in_usa Зу ago The history of bananas Share 1.6K ... InsurethisD Зу ago Look up Chiquita! From paying terrorists to child labor, they have a huge list of interesting corruption cases they've been caught for. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna17615143 781 Share ...
tullyinturtleterror Зу ago Mass hysteria. There are different kinds that have affected different cultures in different ways. Multiple times throughout history, groups of people have uncontrollably danced themselves to deaths. In other parts of the world, men can become stricken with the belief that their penis is receding into their bodies; it was often believed the only way to prevent this from happening overnight was for family members to hold their members etc. - Share 1.6K ... averyconfusedgoose Зу ago You can't forget about the chruch of nuns that just started meowing and only stopped because the nearby town threated
TyHuffman Зу ago Money laundering and how laundered money flows around the world. Most info is public from gov agencies like the CIA and State Department. 11K Share ...
CheeseChickenTable Зу ago Post-WWII industries. Take fertilizer, lawn care, and home gardening for example. A very specific push to get chemical fertilizers in every home, monoculture lawns that require a lot more input, and a clean lawn that has left us where we are now. Very silly that we strayed away from what we had previously... 339 Share ...
gnostic-sicko Зу ago Edited Зу ago Prion diseases. Every single one is weird and dark. It includes cannibalism and family curses. And deers walking on two legs. And industrial farming + forced cow cannibalism. Edit: thanks for 2000 upvotes. I would also add treating people with dead people's brain extract, and also that fungi can get prions, but they just don't care that much. Fungi are weird. 3.1K Share ...
 Зу ago This should give you an hour or two. List of unusual deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of unusual deaths 17K Share ...
Sylvair Зу ago The wiki for the timeline for far future events. If you want to feel insignificant and learn some shit, check this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline of the far future 8K Share ... ebobbumman Зу ago | can't believe you've done this. Volcanos scare me, and now I'm gonna be anxious as hell for the next 17,000 years. 1.5K Share ...
secondhandbanshee Зу ago The town of Skidmore, Missouri in the US. It's sort of a small topic, but it leads in so many different directions. It's most famous for the murder of the town bully (that's a mild name for him; he was horrible) in the middle of the day, on the main street, with a bunch of witnesses, but no one has ever been arrested. But there's also the later case of a woman who was murdered and her unborn baby stolen and even later a teenager (who was related to the murdered woman) just disappeared and is thought
Sure_Pangolin_9421 Зу ago The history of lobotomies and cannibalism. I have spent more time researching these topics than the time taken to write a 90 page essay. Super fascinating if you don't get grossed out. 6.7K Share ...
 Зу ago The domino effect that led up to World War One and then later word war two. It's interesting to learn about but it's just a clusterfuck of easily preventable situations. - 5.6K Share ...
insomniac_observer Зу ago Caving and Cave Diving accidents. Accidentally watched one in YouTube, then went down the rabbit hole. This led to some more parallel topics of horrible fates, bad deaths etc. After few days, started getting disturbed sleep as this became my routine of watching before the sleep time. With self restraint, finally I got out of it. 4.1K Share ...
uglysquire Зу ago Edited Зу ago Shipwrecks. Been absolutely obsessed with them the past few days, there's so much to discover and learn about and so much corruption as well as just interesting circumstances that these huge machines go down in. And adding to that, technical diving accidents. Especially in shipwrecks. You can dive down to the sunken Andrea Doria (that wrecked because another enormous ship collided sideways into it!) ship and collect first class dinnerware as plunder, but people have died, seemingly becoming lost in the complete darkness of the halls inside, or user error in ANY capacity, such
ViLe_Rob Зу ago Look up history of human experimentation in the US on Wikipedia Then do it for Japan 235 Share ...
Arthillidan Зу ago Rabies. You don't quite realize how horrifying it is. 3.6K Share ...
ashrainbowdash Зу ago Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloon accidents 851 Share ...
mbfos Зу ago Art forgery and fakes. I've been watching a BBC series called Fake or Fortune where people try to get their art validated as being by an old master (They've had Renoir, Monet, etc). The program goes into how both modern day and historic forgers use techniques to make a picture or sculpture look original. It sometimes also shows how corrupt the art validation world can be, with one episode showing overwhelming evidence that a picture was genuine, but the organisation responsible for cataloging the original works of the artist refusing to acknowledge it. Interestingly the head of
Trek1973 Зу ago Sleep paralysis audio / visual hallucinations across cultures throughout history. It's disturbing. 2.5K Share ...
mamalion12 Зу ago Edited Зу ago Ancestry. I once spent a full 36 hours researching my family history. I literally sat on my couch and traced my family back until they came from Europe. My kids were like wtf, but | would stop to make dinner and all. | just didn't sleep. Did i mention I was completely manic at the time and was more than obsessed?
zazzlekdazzle Зу ago Edited Зу ago North Korea. This country lives in its own reality, you can spend hours, days, or even weeks following links to find out the details of their own version of everything we think of as universal. It's like they erased all of human history and made their own culture up whole cloth. They have their own version of communism mixed with religion and idol worship, their own way of dating, science, medicine, sex, movies, they even have their own version of fabric that evidently all clothing is made of that is only made and used
 Зу ago Cryptozoology. Its interesting to say the least but there are so many things that make you question what is out there in the world that we haven't discovered yet. When I first got into it I thought cryptids were more like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster but there are hundreds or even thousands of other weird and unusual sightings of creatures many haven't even heard of. 1K Share ...

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