This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

From the page on the Goiania Incident in Brazil, in which scavengers stole a radioactive unit from a disused hospital, leading to 4 deaths and 249 cases of serious radiation poisoning:

On September 13, 1987, the guard in charge of daytime security, Voudireinão da Silva, did not show up to work, using a sick day to attend a cinema screening of Herbie Goes Bananas

Chris Jagger (born 19 December 1947, in Dartford, Kent) is an English musician. He is the younger brother of Mick Jagger.

Jagger released his first two albums in 1973 and 1974 but remained in his brother's shadow.[1][2]

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

The unusual detail is the bit underneath the 'external links' section. The footer, in other words.

"Chris Jagger : He knows he's not Mick (but he likes it)". Time. 23 April 2011

that is disgraceful. for shame time sub

David keeps a blog, titled "Dave's Blog," which is accessible only to Domino's Pizza franchisees and corporate store managers. In his blog he talks about such topics as his personal unannounced visits to stores and the price of cheese.

the other day I was thinking about starting a thread for extracts from the internal blog of the ceo of the company I work for, but I don't want to get sacked

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His area of responsibility was Poland, and his relations with the chief Polish delegate, Roman Dmowski, were antagonistic owing to Dmowski's anti-Semitism and Namier's anti-Polonism.

Misconceptions about lemmings go back many centuries. In the 1530s, the geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather (also featured in the folklore of the Inupiat/Yupik at Norton Sound), and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.[5] This description was contradicted by the natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation.

lol

there's scope for a thread of pleasingly bizarre historical explanations

The Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Company merged with Hunt's Foods, Inc. to become Hunt-Wesson Foods. Hunt-Wesson merged with the McCall Corporation and Canada Dry to form Norton Simon Inc. in 1968. Norton Simon was acquired by Esmark in 1983, which merged with Beatrice Foods the next year. In 1985, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts acquired Beatrice with the goal of selling off businesses. Hunt-Wesson, the company which included the Hunt's brands, was sold in 1990 to agribusiness giant ConAgra Foods.

Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy and started playing drums, guitar and piano. He first performed with his father and older brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight.[5]

In 2014, he caused controversy after subjecting Martin Shanahan of IDA Ireland to a litany of bigoted and racist questions during an on air interview.

In 2010, the inhabitants of Shitterton, Dorset, purchased a 1.5-ton block of Purbeck Stone to place at the entrance to Shitterton, carved with the hamlet's name to prevent theft.[20] A truck and crane were hired by volunteers to put the stone in place, at a total cost of £680.[21][20]

In 2014, he caused controversy after subjecting Martin Shanahan of IDA Ireland to a litany of inane questions during an on air interview.

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In 2014, he caused controversy after subjecting Martin Shanahan of IDA Ireland to a litany of bigoted and racist questions during an on air interview.

Truly mind-bending interview.

Not there

I don't know what that link is! Google CNBC and IDA for it in all of its woejus glory.

The Daily Telegraph has published at least four premature obituaries:

Cockie Hoogterp, the second wife of Baron Blixen, in 1938 after the Baron's third wife died in a car accident. Mrs. Hoogterp sent all her bills back marked "Deceased" and survived her premature obituary by over 50 years.[37]

(crosspost to "great real names")

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Band Aid

Band

Band Aid was a charity supergroup featuring mainly American, British, and Irish musicians and recording artists. Wikipedia

Lead singer: James Kerr

Origin: London

Founders: Bob Geldof, Midge Ure

not a supergroup for geography

Fran Healy: woo

NEVARR FORGET

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

"Although amateur aficionados of mathematics are quite interested in this concept, professional mathematicians generally are not."

hahahahah

It is rare for Punch to hit his baby these days, but he may well sit on it in a failed attempt to "babysit", or drop it, or even let it go through a sausage machine.

Personal life

Father MC appeared nude in the August 1996 issue Playgirl in a photospread taken by Greg Weiner.[1] Despite the critical attention, posing nude opened an international fan base of admirers of Father's music and increased record sales.

dunno if pictures count as details but:

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Sam Slom is the sole Republican in the 25-member [Hawaii] Senate since it reconvened after the 2010 elections and is, therefore, minority leader. Slom technically serves on all fifteen Senate committees but cannot physically attend all of the meetings. He must depend on a Democratic colleague to second a motion that he makes on the Senate floor or the motion will die for lack of a second.

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This article is about the television sitcom. For the social concept, see friendship. For other uses, see Friends (disambiguation).

"Central Perk" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Central Park.

I don't think this has been posted here
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Despite urging by Grohl, though, Smear did not play a guitar solo during band introductions. On March 6, 2008, Smear joined the Foo Fighters for all portions (acoustic/plugged) of their show at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Urged by Grohl, Smear did play a guitar solo (eight notes) during band introductions. Since then, he has played a solo whenever asked to by Grohl.

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I made this image with computer-generated imagery. 2 views of a man with an M2A1-7 United States Army flamethrower.

The American Urological Association has projected that global warming will lead to an increased incidence of kidney stones in the United States by expanding the "kidney stone belt" of the southern United States.[26]

In June 2000, a luxurious cardboard cube was sent to the radio stations.

The choreography from the musical, in which the song was a show-stopping Cockney-inspired extravaganza, inspired a popular walking dance, done in a jaunty strutting style. The craze reached Buckingham Palace, with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attending a performance and joining in the shouted "Oi" which ends the chorus."

A member of the Nazi Party drew attention to it in 1939 by declaring 'The Lambeth Walk' (which had become popular in swing clubs in Germany) to be "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping" as part of a speech on how the "revolution of private life" was one of the next big tasks of National Socialism in Germany. However the song continued to be popular with the German public and was even played on the radio, particularly during the war as part of the vital task of maintaining public morale.

In 1942, Charles A. Ridley of the Ministry of Information made a short propaganda film, Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style, which edited existing footage taken from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will to make it appear they were dancing to "The Lambeth Walk". The propaganda film was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies, who would supply their own narration.[3] Joseph Goebbels placed Ridley on a Gestapo list for elimination if Britain was defeated.

lmao

The first Youtube poop?

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Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben (born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben; September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794), also referred to as the Baron von Steuben (fon shtoy' bin), was a Prussian-born military officer. He served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines.[1] He wrote Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war. 8:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>

Even as a child, Paul showed great talent in all of the arts, including music, drawing, acting, directing, and writing screenplays and comedies. At school, he was always known as the comic of his class, already presenting comedic skits for his classes at the age of 10. He could also play piano, including a "mean" boogie-woogie, and his dad would join in playing bass with a self-made bucket, stick and string. Indeed, his house was full of joy, music, fun and laughter, which may have contributed to his pursuing his fields of movie and television film director, screenwriter and producer. Paul's off-the-cuff jokes as a child were hilarious.

https://twitter.com/jody_beth/status/541536504376356865

I like the subcategory of wikipedia articles clearly written by the subject themselves

People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D

nice.

http://i.imgur.com/43ty1A2.png

lol

Michel Lotito (June 15, 1950 - June 25, 2007[citation needed]) was a French entertainer, born in Grenoble, famous for deliberately consuming indigestible objects. He came to be known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mister Eats All").[1]

His performances involved the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and other materials. He disassembled, cut-up, and consumed bicycles, shopping carts, televisions, a Cessna 150,[2] and other items. The Cessna 150 took roughly two years to be "eaten", from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material as a teenager around 16 years of age and performed publicly from 1966.

Lotito claimed not to suffer ill effects from consuming the materials, even after consuming materials usually considered poisonous. When performing, he consumed around 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the meal.[3] He said, however, that bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him sick. It is estimated that between 1959 and 1997, Lotito "had eaten nearly nine tons of metal."[4]

Lotito died on June 25, 2007, ten days after his 57th birthday. He is buried at Grenoble Cemetery.

Lotito's method for eating all of this metal was to break it into small pieces before attempting to eat it. He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits. This acted as a lubricant to help the metal slide down his throat. He also had no problem "passing" his unusual diet.[5][6]