CLick on the first link of any wikipedia page and you will ALWAYS get to the sam

[Beamin]

...ame page. Why? This works for any page page just keep clicking the same first link on any page and in a few minutes you will always get back to the same topic. I won't ruin the surprise for people who haven't tried this yet.

Is it something to do with languages and how they work I think this will work in any language and probably any encyclopedia. IT could also have something to do with human nature and the way it's linked to technology but I can't think of a non digital analog perhaps look up the first topic each paper encyclopedia reference's and you probably could get back to the same result.

Maybe its like zippfs law or how ever you say it.

[ataradov]

That's not news. You will get to philosophy or some other BS like that. That's because when weak minded people can't explain things they default to mumbling, and that's what philosophy is all about.

[helius]

Either a majority of pages or a large fraction have a pronunciation key in the first few words, which links to the International Phonetic Alphabet, the technical language used in the keys. All those pages have the same first link, and so it is within a few steps of all pages on the site.

[ataradov]

For this trick to work you have to skip pronunciations. You have to follow links to actual articles.

[JPortici]

is it the hitler game?

[EEVblog]

[jc101]

There is a website that will follow the links for you and graph the results...

https://xefer.com/wikipedia

[Beamin]

Cool!

My mind was blown too. I discovered this a few years ago when I was board at work and thought it would send me into a loop or each subject would lead to a related field but EVERY page that has more then one link will do that.

I saw another video on you tube about this recently I think maybe Vsauce?