I casually clicked on an article on how they laid fibre optic cables across the ocean floor ... before I knew it is was 3 in the morning and I was an expert on the construction of fibre optic repeaters...
Damn you Wikipedia, cursed whirlpool of my time.
Post your random wikipedia adventures.
[spoiler]Article's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable]here[/url] if anyone wants to waste their time...[/spoiler]
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I spent about 5-6 hours chasing links about Plutonium once. I actually remember more from that day than I do from lectures on similar subjects.