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Born on 15 January 2001, Wikipedia has forever changed the ways we consume knowledge as nothing was out of reach anymore. It made it possible to solve trivia if you had access to wifi, it made us consume thousands of random facts, names, dates and places we won’t ever need, it helped us to make a fierce impression on a first date, and served as a holy grail of all of our high school Powerpoint presentations.

Still today, it’s our go-to source for learning stuff we don’t even bother to double-check, and it’s the place you stumble across a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the life of your random-ass neighbor.

But something as big and influential as our beloved digital encyclopedia has to have something so much more going on we don’t see. Luckily, thanks to the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ Instagram page, we now are able to dive deep beneath that iceberg and see all the weird and wonderful things published on there. “Wikipedia is Weird!” states the page’s slogan, but trust me, it gets way weirder than that. Get your snorkels ready, we’re about to dive deep!

#1 And They Were Roommates

#3 Obsessed With The Complexity Of The Chart On The Third Slide

#4 Filling My Exam Answers With Swag

#5 In 2003, A High Schooler Named Mike Rowe Had His Website Cease-And-Desisted By Microsoft. Eventually, After Media Attention, The Tech Giant Gave Him A Settlement Including A Trip To Microsoft Tech Fest And An Xbox

#6 In Protest, A Guy Made A 10 Hour Film Of Paint Drying Just To Force The Film Classification Committee To Watch It

#7 Kafka

#8 Going Out With A Bit

#9 Just Like Crabs In A Bucket Block The Escape Attempts Of Other Crabs, People In A Group May Attempt To Sabotage The The Most Talented Group Member Out Of Envy And Spite

#10 Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

#11 RIP Pluto 1930-2006

#12 Young And Rebellious

#13 This Is The Deepest Stuff I’ve Heard In A While

#14 Dudes Rock

#15 Are You Sexy? In Your Prime? Single? This Is For You!!!

#17 I Would Rather Cry In A BMW

#18 We’re All Guilty Of That

#19 Your Life Is A TV Show

#20 Just Gals Being Pals

#21 Models Of The Body Which Show Body Parts Proportional To Size Of Their Region In The Brain. Larger Body Parts Mean There’s More More Cortical Space Devoted To That Body Part’s Movement (For The Motor Map) Or Sensation (For The Sensory Map). They Look Like Nightmarish Little Gnomes!!!

#22 Fools

#23 When A Thing/Concept/Word You Just Learned About Suddenly Seems To Crop Up Everywhere

#24 April Fools Lore

#25 Hm

#26 Relates To The Concept Of Automaticity: The Ability To Do Things Without Occupying The Mind With Low-Level Details

#27 Explained By Multiple Theories— Alcohol, Increased Familiarity (Mere Exposure Effect), And Having Fewer And Fewer Options (Commodity Effect)

#28 So Cool

#29 Mans Done Nothing, Free My Boys

#30 The Week-Long Traffic Jam In China Which LED To Locals Charging Stranded Drivers Astronomical Prices For Water And Food

#31 Very Important Chart!!!in The Streets, In The Sheets, Etc.

#32 Former National Geographic Photographer Charles O’rear Took The Photo On Film While On His Way To Visit His Girlfriend, Later Selling It As A Stock Photo Titled “Bucholic Green Hills” In 1996

#33 Infinite Monkey Theorem

#34 Back When I Was A Kid We Killed Waaaay More Bugs With Our Cars

#35 The Dude Abides

#36 The Popemobile

#37 It’s Cute

#38 Flipping The Bird

#39 Instantly Cuter

#40 Very Important Image

#41 It Does Look Ridiculous

#42 Still Got It

#43 The Safer The More Daring

#44 Thinking About The Oldest Cat Ever Recorded Who Had The Absolute Best, Booziest Life

#45 This Is A Good One

#46 Potato Paradox

#47 Do Not Knit Your So A Sweater Without Making Them Sign A “Pre-Knitual Agreement!”

#48 So Sad

#49 When Incompetent People Can’t Understand Their Relative Incompetence

#50 In America We Actually Call ≡ The ‘Freedomburger Menu’

#51 A Neural Disorder Which Causes People To Believe That Everyone They Know And See Is The Same Person Wearing Disguises

#52 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meat!

#53 This Could Be Us

#54 Anti-Surveillance Makeup Inspired By The Camouflage Ww1 Ships Used To Distort Range, Speed, And Heading. Second Photo From Cvdazzle.com. Model: Bre Bitz; Hair: Pia Vivas; Makeup: Giana Deyoung; Assistant Creative Direction: Tiam Taheri

#55 The Escalator Effect

#56 Wholesome

#57 Can’t Stop Thinking About The Pet Food CEO Rumored To Have Eaten Cans Of Dog Food At Shareholders’ Meetings

#58 I Am Once Again Thinking About The Penguin Who Fell In Love With A Cardboard Cutout Of An Anime Character And Became So Obsessed That He Needed To Be Separated From The Character In Order To Eat

#59 Oceanic Feeling

#60 It Has A Name!

#61 Good Fun Fact To Tell People On Car Rides

#62 The Science Behind This Is Shoddy At Best, But It Is Pretty Notable That A Number Of Correctional Facilities (Not To Mention Kendall Jenner’s Living Room Wall) Have Been Painted This Color

#63 Important Images

#64 Pink, Purple, And Blue Lighting

#65 Just Thinking About It

#66 Kuai Kuai Culture

#67 Why Things Are Cute To Humans

#68 Museum Fatigue

#69 Lenin Was Bald, Stalin Was Hairy; Krushchev Was Bald, Brezhnev Was Hairy; Gorbachev Was Bald, Yeltsin Was Hairy – And Putin Is Practically Bald, So Medvedev Had To Win

#70 The German Man Who Got An Absurd Amount Of Hospitality And Media Attention When He Got Off Of A Flight In A Small Town In Maine And Thought He Was In San Francisco!!! There’s A Lot To Scroll Through (10 Slides) But It’s Such A Good Story!

#71 The Smell Of Rain Has A Name, And It’s Caused By A Substance In The Dirt Named Geosmin Which Is Released When Raindrops Hit The Ground

#72 Dilbert Principle

#73 Send This To Someone With Nice 5318008

#74 Lo-Fi Girl

#75 Ghost Mall

#76 Sounds Fishy

#77 Language Is Weird

#78 Pass By Catastrophe

#79 English Triple Contractions

#80 Where Is “Any” Key?!!!

#81 Your Honor, It Wasn’t Me!!!

#82 Technically Just As Correct As North-Up. At Least One Study Suggests That The Prevailing North-Up Convention Has Influenced People To Think Of North As “Good” And South As “Bad.”

#54 Anti-Surveillance Makeup Inspired By The Camouflage Ww1 Ships Used To Distort Range, Speed, And Heading.

Second Photo From Cvdazzle.com. Model: Bre Bitz; Hair: Pia Vivas; Makeup: Giana Deyoung; Assistant Creative Direction: Tiam Taheri