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Encyclopedic Depths [1]

Fiction [2]
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Depths of Wikipedia [3] is a popular series of social media accounts dedicated to posting obscure facts published on the free online open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia. Posts include Jimmy the Raven, a raven actor who appeared in hundreds of films including The Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life; Mr. Ouch, a hazard symbol developed by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association with children’s safety in mind; and the dinkus, a typographic symbol consisting of a line of asterisks often used as section breaks in a text. This week write a story that incorporates one of these curious Wikipedia facts into your plot.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/encyclopedic_depths [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] https://www.instagram.com/depthsofwikipedia/