wikipedia.finds

A 16th-century broadsheet describing a mass sighting of unusual aerial objects over Nuremberg.

An illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system that has yet to be deciphered since its rediscovery in 1912.

Programming languages designed not for practical use but as experiments, jokes, or art.

A sculpture at CIA headquarters containing an encrypted message. Only three of its four sections have been solved.

The only encryption method proven to be theoretically unbreakable if used correctly.

An asteroid named after Wikipedia.

The COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS.

Apparently the average color of the universe.

A region of Mars that sparked speculation after a 1976 NASA photo appeared to show a humanoid face.

The phenomenon where the act of measuring a system inevitably disturbs it.

The process of an object falling into a black hole.

Country-code domain assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory — a near-uninhabited territory — that has been repurposed and now synonymous with startup culture and browser games.

A 2000 computer worm sent as an email attachment that infected tens of millions of computers worldwide within hours.

The first webcam, created in 1991 at Cambridge to let researchers check if the coffee pot was full without walking to the kitchen.