{"id":21401,"date":"2026-05-29T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/trending\/%f0%9f%93%96-the-internets-curiosity-most-read-wikipedia-articles-may-29-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:00:39","slug":"%f0%9f%93%96-the-internets-curiosity-most-read-wikipedia-articles-may-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/trending\/%f0%9f%93%96-the-internets-curiosity-most-read-wikipedia-articles-may-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcd6 The Internet’s Curiosity: Most-Read Wikipedia Articles – May 29, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia’s most-viewed pages are a fascinating mirror of our collective curiosity. From breaking news to random rabbit holes, here’s what millions of people wanted to learn about yesterday:<\/p>\n

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\ud83e\udd47 Claude Lemieux<\/a><\/div>\n
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Claude Percy Lemieux was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for six teams between 1983 and 2009. Lemieux won four…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83e\udd48 .xxx<\/a><\/div>\n
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.xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83e\udd49 Obsession (2025 film)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Spider-Noir<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 206,292 views<\/div>\n
Spider-Noir is an American superhero noir series developed by Oren Uziel for MGM+ and Prime Video. Based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Spider-Man Noir, the series follows an aging…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Backrooms (film)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Backrooms is a 2026 American science fiction psychological horror film co-scored and directed by Kane Parsons and written by Will Soodik. It is based on Parsons' web series and inspired…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Deaths in 2026<\/a><\/div>\n
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:Name, age, country of…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a><\/div>\n
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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James Talarico<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 111,674 views<\/div>\n
James Dell Talarico is an American politician and educator who has served since 2018 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. He is the Democratic nominee in the…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ChatGPT<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 108,982 views<\/div>\n
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released in November 2022, the product uses large language models\u2014specifically generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)\u2014to generate text, speech, and images…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Anthony Gordon (footballer)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Anthony Michael Gordon is an English professional footballer who plays primarily as a winger for Premier League club Newcastle United and the England national team.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Disclosure Day<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 106,342 views<\/div>\n
Disclosure Day is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp based on a story by Spielberg. The film stars Emily Blunt,…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 106,254 views<\/div>\n
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, alternatively spelled Suryavanshi, is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bihar in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. As a left-handed batsman, he made…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Harambe<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 94,906 views<\/div>\n
Harambe was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Spencer Pratt<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 92,473 views<\/div>\n
Spencer William Pratt is an American reality television personality and candidate in the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral election. In 2007, he began dating Heidi Montag, a primary cast member of…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Neatsville, Kentucky<\/a><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udc41 91,489 views<\/div>\n
Neatsville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 206 and Kentucky Route 76. Its elevation…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It’s amazing how Wikipedia can take you from a casual question to an hour-long learning journey. What will you discover today?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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