Fascinating Wikipedia Pages for the Terminally Bored at Work

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La Llorona eventually led me to this story of hydrocephallic feral children stalking the forests of Michigan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads

Fascinating Wikipedia Pages for the Terminally Bored at Work

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big_dave wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula


That's pretty incredible.

I like this snippet from Roy Castle's wiki (sorry, non-Americans, you won't have a clue who he was):

Throughout his adult life Roy Castle suffered from agoraphobia. For the greater part of his career as an entertainer he was unhindered by the condition - but his role as the main presenter of Record Breakers proved challenging at times. Unfortunately for Roy, many of the multi-person record-breaking attempts were recorded in the vast BBC TC1 studio at Television Centre. At 995 square metres (10,250 ft²), TC1 is one of the largest television studios in Europe. The prospect of several hundred hula-hooping schoolgirls or bagpiping soldiers inside a large studio would cause Roy great anxiety. However, he prided himself on being a professional entertainer and he improvised many novel ways of managing his condition. For example, when filming in TC1 he would arrange with the producer to have a large wicker laundry basket placed out of camera shot, into which he would dive to take refuge from his panic attacks. His co-host Cheryl Baker would often sit on the basket, thus providing Roy with the comforting knowledge that the lid could not be accidentally removed.
Rick Reuben wrote:
daniel robert chapman wrote:I think he's gone to bed, Rick.
He went to bed about a decade ago, or whenever he sold his soul to the bankers and the elites.


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