This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Also see: Heterodox View Avenue, an example of a ''trap street'' used by mapmakers.

The bigger question is what dicks the Trivial Pursuit people were in making up questions back then. I mean that is actually just not knowable information by any reasonable standard, I hate shit like that.

Well, unknowable unless you sat around like me and read books like The Trivia Encyclopedia.

Yeah, but who wants to play Trivial Pursuit with four people looking to relax and scratch their brains a little for wacky facts, and one person who clobbers them because they've memorized the Trivia Encyclopedia? Basic calibration problem with the game in general IMO.

I raged a few years ago playing TP on the front porch of a friend's house for money. This wasn't some sort of "Moops" deal either.

The question was "What is the oldest baseball stadium still in use in MLB?" and I said Fenway. Guy says "Wrong! It's Tiger Stadium!" which of course was closed in 1999 and demolished a few years later.

We had an argument over "What the answer was when the card was printed" vs "What are the true and actual facts that exist in the present day?" that more or less ended with "Just go ahead and take the money then" and "I don't want your fucking money, I want you to say that I'm RIGHT."

Worse game than Monopoly.

So yeah, Dr. C. Perhaps I was the one person who memorized the Trivia Encyclopedia. I don't drink as much anymore though, fwtw.

"Reykjavik comma Iceland full stop."

I remember in the 1995 or 96 edition, they included a question that read something like "What lead singer from Pearl Jam was rescued after being carried offshore by a New Zealand riptide?"

That almost sounds like a Jeopardy question:

"This UK yachtsman who almost drowned in 1985 is also the lead singer of Duran Duran."

Feud with Aggro Berlin
On 11 March 2009, Chronik 2 was released, an album featuring the Selfmade Records artists. The song "Westdeutschlands Kings" performed by Kollegah, Favorite and Farid Bang, targeted insults at Sido, Fler and Kitty Kat from Aggro Berlin.[12]

On 13 March, a song titled "Früher wart ihr Fans" was released by Fler, Kitty Kat and Godsilla as a reaction. In the song, they accuse Selfmade Records artists of having created the feud for the sole purpose of marketing their album; Kitty Kat also attacks Favorite by referring to the death of his parents, who died in a car accident.

Kollegah responded on 20 March with the song "Fanpost", calling Fler a "fat potato" and claims that he was penetrated with a carrot.[13]

All time favorite, much lolled over in a game with balls, was a ''Science and Nature'' question: what was Jesus Christ's astrological sign?

Ha. Isn't that a Kris Kristofferson song?

therses an interesting attempt to get around image licensing - take a grainy cameraphone photo of what looks like a trading card

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Vernon

On March 27, 1999, 12 days after his 40th birthday, Fabio was involved in an accident in Busch Gardens Williamsburg, located in James City County, Virginia. Fabio rode in the first car of Apollo's Chariot, a roller coaster, during its first ride. During the rapid descent on the 210-foot drop after the lift hill, a goose collided with Fabio, leaving his nose covered in blood. The goose was killed during the drop and Fabio received a one-inch cut on his nose but no one else on the roller coaster was hurt.[

Fifteen years already.

yeah I remember when that happened

fabio is 55

can't believe the years have gone like that rip goose

Several scenes in the movie make subtle hints at environmentally friendly themes, such as converting lowriders to run on biodiesel.[3] The film was also shot on an eco-friendly movie set, one of the first of its kind in San Francisco.[3] The cast and crew eliminated the use of water bottles, composting was done on set, and the art department allowed for green product placement in the film.[3] La Mission subsequently earned an Environmental Media Association (EMA) Green Seal Award in 2009 as the result of their production practices.[3]

No Smoking is notable as being the only Bollywood film which can have multiple interpretations.[citation needed]

Autechre seemed to have realized the stylistic dead end that they had arrived at. They gathered their gear, and with a single sigh, turned back around to the fork in the road. There they conjured, and through means unknown (how could one man's mind compass the creative monolith that is generated with Booth and Brown convene)created Confield, an album that was to experimental electronic music as Sun Ra was for jazz.

The December 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine included a speculative piece by writer Paul Limbert Allman in which he imagined Prof. Donald Barthelme to have orchestrated the 1986 attack on Dan Rather, citing passages in Barthelme's writing, including the phrase "What is the frequency?", a recurring character named Kenneth, and a short story about a pompous editor named Lather.

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858

(fighting with left hands only)

George Washington did not have wooden teeth. His dentures were made of gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, animal teeth (including horse and donkey teeth),[27] and probably human teeth from slaves.[28]

actually this whole page is incredible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

"Cups" (also known as "Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)", "Cups (When I'm Gone)", or "When I'm Gone (Cups) or (The Cup Song)") is a song popularized by American actress Anna Kendrick from the film Pitch Perfect.

"Simple Men is a 1992 American film written and directed by Hal Hartley, starring Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas and Martin Donovan. It was the debut film of actress Holly Marie Combs in a supporting role. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival."

Why would you write that? Who gives a shit? Also, had to check to find out who Holly Marie Combs is, and turns out she debuted as a 13-year old in 1988...

"Brando was dealing with the suicide of his daughter Cheyenne, as well as the implications of a French nuclear test near the atoll he owned."

General Norman Schwarzkopf said this was the funniest episode of Cheers.[4]

The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr commented "It’s bullshit. What they are doing out there is against everything The Beatles stood for."[

The scent of spikenard attracts cats, a strange phenomenon in itself.[citation needed]

The most unusual shop in Netherton is probably one selling Western (i.e. cowboy) outfits.[25]

Late in the 1990s, Larkin began working as a stand-up comedian into the 2000s. His musical output has slowed as a result.

A few early Church Fathers are known to have prayed for Satan's eventual repentance;[14] it was not generally believed that this would happen.

The College Dropout
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In 1997, New York caddie James Parker sued Douglas for $25 million.[40] Parker accused Douglas of hitting him in the groin with an errant golf ball, causing Parker great distress. The case was later settled out of court.[41]

Other items called "cream"

Many non-edible substances are called creams due merely to their consistency: shoe cream is runny, unlike waxy shoe polish; face cream is a cosmetic. There is generally no restriction on describing non-edible products as creams.

lol

I really want to go edit that and add "Look up in the air, it's your guitar" at the end.

In 1808, two Frenchmen are said to have fought in balloons over Paris, each attempting to shoot and puncture the other's balloon. One duellist is said to have been shot down and killed with his second.[65]

Prior to completion of Interstate 35, traffic was routed directly through town; generating significant sales revenue to many retailers which literally had a major highway running directly past their doors. In approximately 1975, the last portions of Interstate 35 were completed and all traffic finally started to move around (and not through) Faribault. On that same corridor through town, the White Sands Swimming Pool ("Minnesota's Largest Outdoor Swimming Pool") operated from 1964 to 1977. This swimming area is now the White Sands Dog Park...

^^ The italics killing me there, as is the constant tuning of that tiny violin.

Jeez Louise, I'm noticing a motif here:

After the Interstate Defense Highway System built Interstate 94 along the western edge of Fergus Falls in the late 1950s, population mobility increased dramatically, and high school graduates increasingly left the town to attend colleges in Morris, Fargo-Moorhead, or the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

I tell ya, Otter Tail County might could've been in the business had the Big Highway not taken all the school grads off to Fargo-Moorehead.

The Staffordshire mantel dog’s expression can be soft or fierce, deplorable or self-satisfied, inquisitive or pleased.

In a break from tradition and He-Man canon, she portrayed Teela wearing pants.

Canonical pantslessness

my favorite kind

Wingfield married Alice Lydia Cleveland, daughter of a general. She survived him by many years and died in an asylum in November 1934.