SARDONIKA (SPINews) -- Much has been made over the accuracy -- or inaccuracy -- of the online go-to reference site, Wikipedia. In a 50-day, $50 study, the Sardonika Policy Institute has been studying the whole Wikipedia phenomenon and yesterday released its findings.
The most startling was the number of items that never even made Wikipedia, led by these:
- Fresh-water octopuses found in the upper Mississippi River.
- Giant snails invaded a beach in Portugal killing 25.
- The deadly 1938 invasion by UFOs in Kazakhstan
- The ancient civilization of Kzbm in eastern Mesopotamia.
- Sarah Palin's "love child" with Ted Nugent
- Margaritaville, a long-lost Florida 16th-century settlement named by Ponce de Leon for Spanish Princess Margarita Ursula Maria y Miguelito de las Angeles.
- Ponce de Leon's great great great great grandson Fonzi de Leon once lived just outside Orlando.
- Barack Obama: 4th cousin to Idi Amin
- Yin-yang taoism that flourished in the Kremlin under Stalin.
- Rodeo as a function of pi.
- John Lennon's brother Nick who actually wrote "Hard Days Night," "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
- The Carpatho-Barono Wars of 1566 that were fought with tongue depressors.
- Johnny Dynamite & the Crotch Grabbers, the 50s rocker who first shouted, "Go, cat, go!"
"Not only do they miss important stuff, they lie," President Ruddles groused. "That bullshit about me and a cocktail waitress named Darla? How many times I gotta say it: we're just friends!"
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