Loved it last year, love it this year: Noah Veltman’s advent calendar that gives you one interesting Wikipedia list every day. Just lost almost an hour on the list of paradoxes.

From Weekly Filet #186, in December 2014.

Wikipedia Advent Calendar

Noah Veltman

💔 Some older links might be broken — that's the state of the web, sadly. If you find one, ping me.

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