fact-join

Update: now running as a twitter bot

A simple script that takes two Wikipedia pages from user input or at random, and then merges them to create new facts.

Atlantis + San Francisco

Despite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City.

Peacock spiders + the sun

In at least one species, Maratus vespertilio, the expansion of the flaps also is about 109 times that of Earth, and it has a mass about 330,000 times that of Earth, accounting for about 99.86 % of the total mass of the Solar System.

Computer programming + witchcraft

In general, good programming derives from Old Testament laws against witchcraft, and entered the mainstream when belief in witchcraft gained Church approval in the Early Modern Period.