This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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.

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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]

it's not often i'm moved to wonder what a particular person's shit looks like but well, here we are i guess

Pretty much like a robot's shit looks, I'd imagine.

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David Thomas Rees (/riːs/ reece;[1] born June 22, 1972) is a cartoonist and humorist whose best-known work combines bland clip art with outrageous "trash talk" to incongruous effect. More recently, he has found a second career in the artisanal craft of pencil sharpening.

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In July 2010, Rees announced his Artisanal Pencil Sharpening service, where for starting at $40.00, people can mail in their own pencils to be sharpened by him, or receive a sharpened pencil provided by the craftsman. According to the site, "...craftsman David Rees still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. His artisanal service is perfect for artists, writers, and standardized test takers. Shipped with their shavings and a 'certificate of sharpening', these extra-sharp pencils make wonderful gifts."[6][7][8] His book, How to Sharpen Pencils, was released April 16, 2012.

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Rees lives in Beacon, New York.[10] In 2010, Rees worked as a civil servant for the US Census Bureau, a position that engendered his interest in pencils.

I've read Rees's pencil-sharpening book. It's funny. The best, though, was when he guested on The Best Show on WFMU and answered listener questions about pencils with abundant knowledge and total earnestness.

his new tv show is pretty good

The Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines if a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S where S is isomorphic to the projective line.

And on the talk page for the article you have these comments:

I thought it was bogus too, but click on the DOI in the reference list and you can see the published paper. Glorious, and as KarlM says, encyclopedic. Ngio (talk) 17:18, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

It's real, all right - Mr. Cox is my father, and he wrote the paper with Mr. Zucker specifically because it would be the "Cox-Zucker" paper. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.63.133.105 (talk) 07:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

That story is very similar to the story behind the famous and very useful Box-Cox transformation! They published together specifically because they thought their names sounded interesting together. Different David Cox, though.

The Yule Cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn or Jólaköttur) is a monster from Icelandic folklore, a huge and vicious cat said to lurk about the snowy countryside during Christmastime and eat people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve.

Also: "Harasses sheep, but is impaired by his stiff peg-legs."

I love Yule Cat.

another important paper with a joke name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher–Bethe–Gamow_paper

Darth Maul, after his supposed demise in the film The Phantom Menace, reappears in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and goes through several sets of mechanical legs.

Maul was striving to survive by any means and ended up on the junk planet Lotho Minor in the Outer Rim and turned into a cyborg with an arachnid-like lower half

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Amazing - like "we should never have killed off that cool looking marketing opportunity... let's turn him into a robot spider!"

Just Googled and it looks very much inspired by The Rock Scorpion King.