The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
Lots of great stuff. The following is the best paragraph I’ve ever seen in Wikipedia:
It was the 32-year-old’s second successful attempt to break into Buckingham Palace. On his first attempt, he scaled a drainpipe, briefly startling a housemaid who called security, but they decided not to act. Fagan entered through an unlocked window on the roof and spent the next half hour eating cheddar cheese and wandering around. He tripped several alarms, but they were faulty. He viewed the royal portraits and rested on the throne for a while. He then entered the postroom, where he drank half a bottle of California white wine before becoming tired and leaving.
From the Michael Fagan Incident page.
