Five of the weirdest Wikipedia pages we've ever seen

With the right state of mind, enough time on your hands, and a can-do attitude/darkened worldview, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into hours spent amongst the site's weird, bizarre, and morbidly fascinating black holes.

We'll probably never be able to find them all, but we can at least compile the strangest of the strange. Here are a few that grabbed our attention:

Euthanasia coaster



A self explanatory name if there ever was one. As Wikipedia so delicately puts it, the Euthanasia Coaster is a "roller coaster designed to kill its passengers". How does a coaster kill its passengers? By theoretically being the 10th tallest structure ever constructed.

At about a third of a mile high, 24 passengers would spend a solid two minutes travelling up to the top of the first and only hill. Then, the 500-metre drop would carry passengers at 220 miles-per-hour through a series of smaller and smaller loops, which would ensure that the deadly 10 g dose of force would never quite let up.

Apparently, Julijonas Urbonas, the maker of this model got the idea from a "description of the 'ultimate' roller coaster as one that 'sends out 24 people and they all come back dead.'"
Spite house



A spite house is exactly what it sounds like. Do you hate your neighbour? Do you wish to permanently spite them by impeding their light, space, and any otherwise general enjoyment they might find within their living quarters? Then you want to build a spite house.
Vladimir Demikhov

Vladimir Demikhov was a human centipede enthusiast before anyone knew that was even an option. More specifically, he was a Soviet scientist who performed all sorts of insane (successful) experiments like, for instance, creating his very own two-headed pup.
List of animals with fraudulent diplomas

Whether done on a lark or to call out diploma mills for their phony/non-existent academic standards, there is a whole slew of animals walking around with MBAs while pooping on sidewalks. These are those animals. In one case, a cat named George was even able to become an accredited member of the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming. Way to go, George.
Toilet paper orientation

If you've ever wanted to read over 5,000 words on the orientation of toilet paper, boy do we have a treat for you. The article covers a wide range of topics — politesse, technological improvements, sociology, psychology, popular culture, arguments for and arguments against, probability science and the list goes on and on.