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 (DIR) Post #AqprJ8QitIOAwwxYEC by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:29:06Z
       
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       Good morning! On this first Tuesday in February, you are all invited to read through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per ancient xkcd custom.#xkcd #xkcd843 #misconceptions #Wikipedia
       
 (DIR) Post #AqprJGCpyo2F4CWZhA by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:29:20Z
       
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       Randall Munroe, Misconceptions (https://xkcd.com/843/), CC BY-NC 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/)
       
 (DIR) Post #AqprJNfSEo5MCyy1lw by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:30:00Z
       
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       This year, I learned:• “Michelangelo was standing instead of lying down while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.”• “The Seven Deadly Sins are never listed in the Bible.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AqprJUvJGFvYiBRHxQ by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:30:34Z
       
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       “Rosa Parks was not sitting in the front ("white") section of the bus during the event that made her famous and incited the Montgomery bus boycott. Rather, she was sitting in the front of the back ("colored") section of the bus, where African Americans were expected to sit, and rejected an order from the driver to vacate her seat in favor of a white passenger when the "white" section of the bus had become full.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AqprJcTbBAVy8YXGsK by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:31:22Z
       
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       • “Bees do not always die if they use their sting. … They are able to survive when they sting other insects.”• “Leprosy is not auto-degenerative as commonly supposed, meaning that it will not (on its own) cause body parts to be damaged or fall off.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AqprJkTBSaw6vaP3L6 by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:32:43Z
       
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       English Wikipedia contributors, List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions), including List of common misconceptions about arts and culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_arts_and_culture), List of common misconceptions about history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_history), and List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_science,_technology,_and_mathematics); all CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
       
 (DIR) Post #AqprJsLgANgdMcxAki by LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
       2025-02-04T13:34:01Z
       
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       And one neat thing since last year: the list has been split into several separate pages, with the main list no longer showing citations; this was done very simply by having the partial lists as their own pages (in the main namespace), with their introductions and references all marked <noinclude>, and the main list simply transcluding them. I like this solution! ^^