This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

^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]

The song has remained a staple of Limp Bizkit's live shows, though its most famous performance occurred in Ohio in 2001, "sung" by Patrick Grannan after a heartbreaking defeat.

Unnecessary disambiguation:

Play-Doh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the children's modeling material. For the ancient Greek philosopher, see Plato.

Play-Dohnic love

hahaha, that's great. Aries Toddle - This article is about the Zodiac-themed baby walker. For the ancient Greek philosopher...

In 2009, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary of the release of Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz with a world tour of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Oklahoma.

[Tom Driberg] began a long association with the satirical magazine Private Eye, supplying it with political gossip and, under the pseudonym "Tiresias", compiling a regular, highly risqué prize cryptic crossword puzzle which on one occasion was won by the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

She is active on Facebook.

Dobson spent nine years writing of the ups and downs of life with Black Lace. The book's writing was suddenly halted, with the death of his partner, Tricia, to an asthma attack in 2006

Anarchist band Chumbawamba recorded a version of "Agadoo" for the Peel Sessions. The producer of the Black Lace version, Neil Ferguson, was also Chumbawamba's regular producer at the time and later a full member of the band.

He was the lead singer on Smokie's revival of their hit, "Living Next Door To Alice", recorded with British comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown, as "Who The F**k is Alice?".

Barton died in March 1995, at the age of 41, from injuries incurred when Smokie's tour bus crashed during a hailstorm in Cologne, Germany.

In 1987, Colin Gibb released an alternative version of the song with explicit lyrics, entitled "Supercock"

Hemmings was offered the part of the protagonist after actor Sean Connery turned the role down because Antonioni wouldn't show him the full script but only a 7-page treatment stored in a cigarette packet.[6]

The Irish Times described it as a "mildly diverting yarn" but was critical of the small scale of the film and the apparently limited budget.[7] Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian and said that it was "the worst film of the week, a dire British comedy, to which the only honest response is to soil and then set fire to the Union flag in the foyer of your local cinema."

In 2003, Purple Ronnie was dropped, and a new creative direction was adopted, revolving around the benefits of Shlurpling the Purple.

hahahah

Serbia's best-known CPA Accountant and current President of Instant Technology, Mirjana Schultz was born in this region.

Suggs

Graham McPherson was born in Hastings in Sussex, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975)[2] and Edith Gower, who married in Paddington in 1960. Suggs was raised in Hastings by his mother, a jazz singer;[3] his father had left by age three. In a 2009 interview he was asked about what happened to his father:

I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: [being addicted to] heroin, injecting his eyeballs with paraffin, and being sectioned. He must be dead now. I mean, he would have got in touch if he was alive, wouldn't he? Yeah, he must be dead, poor bugger.[4]

In fact, ironically, he would only learn of his father's passing three years after that interview, through reading this very Wikipedia entry.

In December 2007, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, appointed Eno – then aged 59 – as his youth affairs adviser.[57]

Before this development, milk could only be kept fresh for a short while and was only available in the immediate vicinity of a cow.

Actor Bill Paxton appears in the videos for "Fish Heads", "Soak It Up", and "Love Tap".

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS.

Regarding Pepto-Bismol:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Bismuth_slag_from_pepto_bismol.jpg/220px-Bismuth_slag_from_pepto_bismol.jpg

Bismuth subsalicylate is the only active ingredient in an over-the-counter drug that can leave a shiny metal oxide slag behind after being completely burnt with a blow torch.[15]

"Character relationship diagram" for Steppenwolf:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Steppenwolf_en.JPG/800px-Steppenwolf_en.JPG

Unknown (80s?) — Luis walks away from his computer briefly, and the Yip Yips visit during that time and experiment with pressing buttons on the computer. Luis comes back to find that his computer has been changed by someone. Later in the show, the Yip Yips come back and leave a flower on the keyboard, which Luis discovers (presumably early- to mid-1980s based on technological level of computer and those fuzzbuster outfits)

I'm all for Wikipedia entries being clear about what is fictional and what is RL (esp given fans' tendency to describe characters, plots etc as if they were real), but I still giggle a bit when I see an article starting like

Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional superhero

On the beetle species Julodimorpha bakewelli:

The males of this species have the habit to aggregate on and attempting to copulate with discarded brown "stubbies" (a type of beer bottles). The males are apparently attracted by the refraction of light produced by the glass bumps of the bottles, resembling giant females with a very similar colour and surface. Consequently to this behaviour the species is actually threatened.

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Graham McPherson was born in Hastings in Sussex, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975)[2] and Edith Gower, who married in Paddington in 1960. Suggs was raised in Hastings by his mother, a jazz singer;[3] his father had left by age three. In a 2009 interview he was asked about what happened to his father:

I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: [being addicted to] heroin, injecting his eyeballs with paraffin, [and] being sectioned. He must be dead now. I mean, he would have got in touch if he was alive, wouldn't he? Yeah, he must be dead, poor bugger.[4]

In fact, ironically, he would only learn of his father's passing three years after that interview, through reading this very Wikipedia entry.