People Are Amused By These 15 Screenshots Of Wikipedia Tables Of Contents That Come Without Context Shared On Twitter

People have always been taught to consider things in context and to consider different perspectives of a given issue, but screw that, sometimes taking things out of context just for kicks is good old-fashioned fun.

And what better way to do this than to use Wikipedia tables of contents? I wish I was making this up, but it was a thing for a very short period of time in internet history when Twitter user @ZeeZeeMooMoo posted a screencap of the table of contents of the Wikipedia article for the 1859 Pig War.

If you know what it’s all about, this all looks rather normal, but picture knowing nothing about it, knowing absolutely no context. It does make you wonder how the heck is this a thing, how did whatever this article is talking about come to this, what happened, now I need to know?!

The short-lived, but still noteworthy little thread is all neatly posted in a curated list below for your enjoyment, so check it out, vote and comment appropriately, and tell us what you thought of it in the comment section!

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Phoneixstudios 2 years ago

why is pizza on there

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angry_waffle 2 years ago

AND THIS IS WHY YOU DON"T LET PIGS HAVE GUNS

84points

BigOrangeTractor 2 years ago

As a farmer, I endorse this comment.

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Mobey Drunk 2 years ago

Well, here in the USA, we don't have time for rational thought.

7points

Melissa Johnson 2 years ago

Yeah, you would THINK that would be obvious...

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C Lawson 2 years ago

Its Animal Farm all over again

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Katherine Jorgensen 2 years ago

Makes me think of 'Animal Farm'...

15points

Ghost Host 2 years ago

I wanted to b u r n that book. It makes me so mad. That's how you know it's a good read!

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago

Snapped from the article about he Pig War perhaps?

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Charlie Taube 2 years ago

That was my first thought!

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

pig?

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Cocoa pop 2 years ago

Yes. Pig.

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Space whale 2 years ago

PIG

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Blue Pearl 2 years ago

Military escalation

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redties_and_blackparades 2 years ago

Pig is important

2points

N S 2 years ago

Likely about The Pig War

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The Thing That Should Not Be. 2 years ago

technoblade wiki page

5points

Tom Spade 2 years ago

Bay of Pigs

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QuotedPrawn7490 2 years ago

it's not the bay of pigs; it's the pig war (1859)

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Adam Belaire 2 years ago (edited)

Oversimplified: The Pig War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLq6GEiHqR8

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Ben Rayhill 2 years ago

Why when I see this do I think of David Cameron

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dndjjdk 2 years ago

Is this the San Juan Island dispute?

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Mighty Remolacha 2 years ago

This is exactly why I come to BP. Thank you!!!

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Zenyp 2 years ago

me when jolyne cujoh pfp

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Joey 2 years ago

this is about the pig war somewhere near Vancouver island isn't it? Something about a dead Berkshire pig..

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Natasha Neumansky 2 years ago

That's the us-Britain border thing, right?

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Ben Rayhill 2 years ago

Why when I see this do I think about David Cameron

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Chrystina Sherrin 2 years ago

I had to do this! This is pertaining to the pig war of Vancouver Island. It's actually kinda hilarious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

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Little Mac Is underrated 2 years ago

Pig war, San Juan islands, on the northwestern us British border. Oversimplified made a vid on it

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Linda Rexrode 2 years ago

Yeah...it was actually "The Pig Incident" so i can't believe anything else i read in this article. These are obviously edited.

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Ashlei Harris 2 years ago

I know what this one is lol

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Elizabeth Calvert 2 years ago

The famous pig war that nearly started between Canada and the US. Simplified History did a whole video on it

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LittleLiz 2 years ago

Animal Farm

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Alex Ernst 2 years ago

Pig War. Dumbest international incident we've ever had.

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adeadgirl1313 XD 2 years ago

Technoblade

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Alex Williams 2 years ago

This was probably the story of the Pig Wars in the 1800s in disputed land between the US and the UK

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Adam Rindegård 2 years ago

*inhales* TECHNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Claire Elizabeth 2 years ago

The pig war?

0points

Goose2008 2 years ago

the war of the pig

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Sawdust 2 years ago

The Hatfields and McCoys?

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 2 years ago

I mean, Norway DID knight a penguin...

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Raven Sheridan 2 years ago

Bay of Pigs?

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Christine Sweet 2 years ago

Falklands?

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Eva 2 years ago

Is this by any chance the Pig War that the great Oversimplified made a video about?

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Buren 2 years ago

Well that escalates quickly

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RandomX123 2 years ago

Animal farm?

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MorgothBauglir 2 years ago

The boring explanation would be that this was a border dispute between America and Canada. The better explanation would be that this dispute got escalated when an American farmer on disputed territory shot a British pig for eating his potatoes.

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