This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

I wonder if it built up gradually as pro and anti Collins partisans each added more and more quotes and references in retaliation against each other?

According to a comment on the article talk page, a lot of anti-Collins material was added by a user called 'The abominable Wiki troll' in part using a large number of sockpuppet accounts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Phil_Collins and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/The_abominable_Wiki_troll/Archive (search 'Phil Collins').

Schünzel's work was very popular in Germany and the Nazi regime gave him the title of Ehrenarier or Honorary Aryan and allowed him to continue to direct and act despite he was a Jew ( A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the process of conversion to Judaism). Aryan comes from the Sanskrit aria, which means noble, and according to the Nazi ideology an Aryan is a Caucasian of non- Jewish descent

The Offspring and Rancid have also played ska-punk songs.

In August 2013 several people died in Siorapaluk from eating kiviak that was made from eider rather than auk, which do not ferment as well and gave those that ate it botulism.[2]

In 2002 the band was featured on the Scooby Doo soundtrack, and that was the end of the band's career.

They shared a cheeseburger and carrot cake, at a restaurant called the Apple Jack, on 19 August (two years to the day since Tennant and Lowe had met) and, after hearing a demo tape that Tennant had brought along with him, Orlando suggested making a record with the Pet Shop Boys.

hahaha. clearly it was the carrot cake that did it.

Bathrooms[edit]

Leave It to Beaver is unique in 1950s television sitcom history for its extraordinary number of bathroom scenes. Beaver and Wally have an en-suite bathroom, and many scenes are set in it. One early episode, "Child Care," is set almost entirely in their bathroom.[53] Other episodes include major scenes set in the boys' bathroom.[54][55] Additionally, in almost every scene set in the boys' bedroom, the bathtub, shower curtain, or vanity can be seen through the open bathroom door. Beaver uses the bathroom several times to escape his brother when angry, slamming the door to express his emotions. At such times, June and Ward are called upon to order Beaver to vacate his refuge. In "Beaver's Good Deed,"[45] a scene is set in Ward and June's bathroom. A tramp takes a bath in their tub and slips away wearing one of Ward's suits and a pair of his shoes. In the "Captain Jack" episode, Wally and Beaver try to hide a baby alligator they bought by keeping it in their bathroom's toilet tank.

Leave It To Iguana[edit]

I read that in the Philippines they call the show "Leave It To Iguana," because a beaver isn't common there. Any truth to that? 99.180.245.100 (talk) 22:11, 15 January 2010 (UTC)Lauralei

The bathroom paragraph suggests either (a) a fetishist whose familiarity with the show is limited solely to this topic, (b) a crackpot fan with a theory no one believes in, or (c) a sorta garbled gloss of someone's graduate thesis in the humanities, the latter also possibly written by A or B.

i assume it's related to this: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/firsttoilet.asp

Was Leave It to Beaver the first prime-time network program to show a toilet? Not quite. It can lay claim to being the first series to show a toilet tank, however, and to be among the earliest programs to show a bathroom in any form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blanco

he is openly proud of having been named after Richard Nixon

Flatulence
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Breaking wind" redirects here. For the 2012 comedy film, see Breaking Wind.
"Farting" redirects here. For the term "fart" itself, see Fart.
"Cut the cheese" redirects here. For slicing cheese, see Cheese knife.

I probably should have figured this out before looking it up, but this is what Breaking Wind the 2012 comedy film is:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Breaking_Wind_film_poster.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Breaking_Wind_film_poster.jpg

Urg!

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/news/screenshot/2012/1/breakingwindartworkpic.jpg

Fannie wrote that one should not short the sugar in a cake as there will be a loss of texture and a disappointing taste. Reviews of the history of sugar’s ascendency in modern diets have noted that Fannie was an early advocate "of adding sugar to practically everything: Bread, vegetables, salads and their dressings." For this she was labeled the queen of American sugar-pushing people killers by a sugar alarmist.

She was a one-bowl, from-scratch, sugar-pushing people-killer.

that is amazing btw

Crime

In September 2013, police investigating a car that was double-parked found 20 pounds of heroin, worth over $750,000.[13] The man in the car who had not escaped the police was from Yonkers.[14]

Transportation

If a cricket is taped to the blade of a ceiling fan and the fan is turned on, it will go back to fight every time and will usually come out the winner.

This also works with toddlers.

While preparing to portray Wells, Malcolm McDowell obtained a copy of a 78 rpm recording of Wells speaking. McDowell was "absolutely horrified" to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent, which McDowell felt would have resulted in unintentional humor if McDowell tried to mimic it for the film.

A syntho-mop such as the Scooba is not considered a mop, because even though it performs the same function as a traditional mop, the lack of hand operation makes it ineligible for status as a mop.

^That's blatant mopism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blanco

he is openly proud of having been named after Richard Nixon

By the way, I just finished Richard Blanco's memoir, The Prince of Los Cocuyos, and I don't think the above claim is even true. He mentions that his dad was a Nixon fan and thus the name Richard, true, but nowhere does Blanco say he's proud of the association

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Mash

In 1978 Finnish band Kontra made, for their second album Kontran Toinen Puoli, a cover of the song in Finnish called "Hirviömuhennos", describing a food, "salad in meat".[citation needed]

This gesture is not unique to humans. A group of mandrills at the Colchester Zoo has adopted a similar gesture to signal the desire to avoid social interaction or to be left alone.[12]

It should be noted that this is the opening paragraph:

Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See, (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer of high potential who ended a colorful life with no real accomplishment in astronomy or physics. He is known for a career dogged by plagiarism, being fired from two observatory staffs, grand egotistical claims, being 'exiled' to an isolated outpost, and his vitriolic attacks on relativity.

Kristiansand Dyrepark is the zoo that sells most giraffe in Europe.

A son, Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff, Jr., was born in Philadelphia in 1952, and was able to pronounce his surname by age three.[10]

In the weeks before his death, he told friends and journalists that an unidentified American was following him, and that he feared his opposition to the auction could endanger his life. His behaviour became increasingly erratic, and once he insisted on speaking to a visitor in the garden because he said his apartment was bugged.

During the night of his death, his sister, Priscilla West, telephoned his apartment, obtaining only his answering machine, which had a new message with an American voice (this was found later to be the standard message tape supplied with the machine). Her worries about this resulted in the discovery of Lancelyn Green's body, face down on his bed, garrotted with a shoelace that had been tightened with the handle of a wooden spoon.

Murder was suspected, and there was some newspaper gossip. Because the CID was not called at the start, any evidence that might have been useful for a murder enquiry had been disturbed or removed during the course of dealing with the body. The Coroner returned an open verdict. Many of Richard Lancelyn Green's best friends thought it was not in his nature to commit suicide. However, some thought the death to have been an elaborate suicide, intended to seem like murder, to cast suspicion upon one of his rivals. This replicates the plot of one of the last Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The Problem of Thor Bridge, in which a woman commits suicide in a manner meant to implicate the woman with whom her husband had been flirting.

Dreadlock Pussy was started in August 1997, with the intention of writing good songs in a degrading music business.

David Grann wrote a great article about Richard Lancelyn Green. It's in his collection The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (or the New Yorker archives if you've got a sub)

possibly common knowledge but not to me

Jeffrey Allen "Jeff Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.

In 2006, the financial services company Visa used a Baker-produced track from Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking For the Perfect Beat" as the backing music of a Visa Check Card commercial. In the ad, an animated worm drawn on the pages of a checkbook does the 1980s dance known as the Worm.

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On December 22, 2009 Lil B released his second digital album entitled 6 Kiss to critical reception.[6]

The spiral track of a LaserDisc is 67 km (42 mi) long.

What travels back to your brain's visual processing center, are thousands of parallel signals, each vibrating with information that has been pre-processed, by that eye-centric processor, to contain both color and shape and perhaps even an evaluation of emotional clarity. So not only is the color discerned by the interference of two colors, but the relationship between the cones themselves has further shaped the perception of both meaning and reaction, that either satisfies or revulses, and so alerts our reflexive reaction before ever being seen by our upper thinking centers at the back of our heads.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_DeWitt

Contrary to reports, she has never painted actor Abe Vigoda's garage doors, and has never met the man.

So not only is the color discerned by the interference of two colors, but the relationship between the cones themselves has further shaped the perception of both meaning and reaction, that either satisfies or revulses, and so alerts our reflexive reaction before ever being seen by our upper thinking centers at the back of our heads.

Good to see Oliver Sacks still well enough hand able to find the time to contribute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_October

He briefly managed a club called Revolution No.9 and for many years worked as an A&R man for Miles Copeland III's IRS label. He currently works for Brighton & Hove Council in the recycling department.

While there is no rule on whom one should greet, tradition dictates that groups send greetings to other groups whom they consider their friends. Other groups, usually newcomers to the demo scene who don't have sufficient contacts, prefer to greet groups whose works they consider influential or high-quality. Some groups occasionally send greetings to individual people.

Applause is always awarded for an entry after it was shown, even if it was a below-average quality entry by someone who never created a production before; it is usually the actual effort behind the production that's awarded. It is not uncommon to hear applause during the display of a demo or intro when a remarkable effect is shown; this type of display of respect is generally considered a huge achievement and is highly regarded by the creators.

Yakky Doodle is a fictional character created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Yakky's name is an obvious takeoff of Yankee Doodle.

Really taking my willpower to avoid adding a [CITATION NEEDED] to that second sentence.

This article possibly contains original research.

if only Yankee Doodle was alive so he could sue for millions a la Yogi Berra

In recent years, Booji Boy's concert appearances have seen him dressed in modern "hip hop" attire (including a sideways ball cap and sporting "bling"), with Devo member Jerry Casale introducing him as "Boogie Boyyyyyy."

LOL

Much of the movie was filmed in an old, long-empty Masonic temple in Glendale, California, owned by actor Rock Hudson. The nine-story building was a series of makeshift "sound stages" stacked floor after floor, some big enough to create the midway scenes indoors. This was the studio used that year for production of The Creeping Terror, another low-quality monster movie. The Film Center Studios were popular with non-union producers, because they could turn off the elevator to lock out IATSE union agents, who found it difficult to climb the stairs to the seventh floor main stage.[2]

A number of other constructions have been given.[11] [12] [13][14] [15]
As a reviewer of one noted: "The details are all included, but as usual they are tedious and not too instructive."[16]