This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

I'm coming up with trivia questions for a middle school fundraiser, and man, Wikipedia is responsible for basically infinite choice paralysis. What is the internet if not history's most vast repository of useless facts and information?

When Alice and Phil leave their three children with their parents while off on a short holiday, the children learn important life lessons from their grandparents.

What's wrong with this sentence.

Important life lesson #1: never let outsiders dilute the family bloodline.

Bronco Billy (1980)[edit]
On Wednesday, June 11th, 1980, Clint Eastwood starred and directed in Bronco Billy. Later on, Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) and Antoinette Lily (Sondra Locke) drives a Champagne Metallic 1966 GMC 3500 Custom 2-door pickup truck.

Any Which Way You Can (1980)[edit]
Later on Wednesday, December 17th, 1980 he appeared in the movie Any Which Way You Can. Later on, he drives a Dark Maple Red Metallic 1980 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency 4-door sedan.

Firefox (1982)[edit]
The US Navy's team landing, with Clint Eastwood as burned out United States pilot takes care of himself.

Honkytonk Man (1982)[edit]
Barry Corbin, who played Red's father in Honkytonk Man, with Clint Eastwood as a country western. Later on, Red Stovall (Clint Eastwood) suffers from tuberculosis at the Grand Ole Opry. He takes out on a stage to Nashville, Tennessee, Clint's son Kyle Eastwood is his nephew.

Sudden Impact (1983)[edit]
Dirty Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is one of the year's police detective films. The FBI, after years of investigating. The lines wrote when Clint Eastwood wrote the script for Sudden Impact. "Listen, punk. To me you're nothing but dog shit, understand? And a lot of things can happen to dog shit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind and it can be stepped on and squashed. So be careful and take my advice: Be careful when the dog shits you!" - Harry Callahan #4

Tightrope (1984)[edit]
Clint Eastwood played a New Orleans detective named Wes Block, is one of the year's police detective films. It was 2 years until Heartbreak Ridge (1986).

City Heat (1984)[edit]
The story was pretty routine: taciturn Lieutenant Speer (Clint Eastwood) and his wisecracking partner Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds). Burt Reynolds broke his jaw when he was hit by a real chair in a fight scene. Despite rumors, he was not punched by Clint Eastwood.

Pale Rider (1985)[edit]
In the fact so that he is Clint Eastwood, a comedy western cowboy named Hull Barrett (Michael Moriarty).

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)[edit]
The US Navy's USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) is the view from CH-46 Sea Knights, from which they disembark. They were dropped by helocast into the water of the rest of the Battalion Landing Team, ordering Stitch Jones to use a bulldozer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anger

St. Anger is the eighth studio album and the worst album to come out by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 5, 2003 by Elektra Records.

lol

and wtf at the clint eastwood list, it reads like clickhole absurdism. what the hell kind of article is that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood_in_the_1980s

This page was nominated for deletion on 28 June 2012. The result of the discussion was keep.

ha, wow. what a strange little playground for people of certain recurring preoccupations.

the guy also proposed a deletion of the Jennifer Connolly filmography page. just that part of her page. that's a little...weird.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cc-RzOFWwAM7TNz.jpg

enjoyed this: https://twitter.com/hummusandpizza/status/706100201430323201

Most the members went on to form [NEW BAND], who have since become major contenders in the indie rock circuit, making [OLD BAND'S RECORD] a major collector's item.

Everything I've heard from [NEW BAND] is dry as dust. Like eating Baked Lays only without that outrageously rich taste.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, August 7, 2006 8:08 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Additionally, the Loew's Jersey is a popular venue for film and photography shoots. The lobby of the Loew's Jersey was the disco in the film The Last Days of Disco and was featured in a 2007 Geico commercial featuring their gecko character. The theatre has appeared in two A&E specials and numerous magazines as a backdrop for brides and other fashions.

In February 2011 the band The Strokes shot a music video for the single "Under Cover of Darkness" off of their 2011 album Angles at the Loew's Jersey Theatre, featuring the main lobby, promenade and stage.[11] The Trans-Siberia Orchestra filmed "The Ghosts of Christmas Eve" in the Loew's Jersey.[12]

The Loew's is principal venue for the Golden Door Film Festival.

The theater is also a popular venue for fundraising and corporate events, and weddings.[13][14][15]

On June 6–7, 2014, Big Apple Ponycon, a brony convention took place.

Someone did a lot of biographical research on the cast and crew of this B-movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_of_the_Black_Eagle_%28film%29

Gene Scherer (aka Eugene Genaidy Scherer, né Geniady Bieguioff; born 1937)[7] … Dr. Kurtz

Maxann Crotts (née Vickie Maxann Crotts; born 1954; currently known as Maxann Crotts-Harvey) … woman on bus

† Ian Hunter, who had been living in Santa Barbara, is a native of Winston-Salem. He had attended the Governor's School of North Carolina, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[12]

‡ John Alan Stephens is the husband of Betty J. Stephens. In 1987, they lived in Santa Barbara. John A. Stephens founded Excel-Mineral Company in 1949 in California. He had acquired vast deposits of opal sedimentary clay that not only absorbed its weight in liquid, but also absorbed odors. Eventually, in the 1950s, Stephens launched "Jonny Cat" litter.

Eaton had one full-sibling and four paternal half-siblings: one full-sister, three half-brothers, and a half-sister. One of his half-sisters, Julia (1924–2007), was married to Morris Abbott Van Nostrand, Jr. (1911–1995), a descendent of the first non-native child born in New Amsterdam.[15] Van Nostrand, from 1952 to 1990, had served as president of Samuel French, Inc., the world's oldest and largest play publisher and licensing agency. During his presidency, the company published every prominent 20th century playrwright, including 26 Pulitzer Prize winners and 14 Nobel Prize winners.[16] Eaton's father, William Arthur Eaton (1883–1974) had been a commander in the U.S. Navy.

He had acquired vast deposits of opal sedimentary clay that not only absorbed its weight in liquid, but also absorbed odors.

I missed a few in the footnotes.

5. ^ Anna Marie Rapangna was Miss California International 1978

7. ^ Gene Scherer became a naturalized U.S. citizen March 20, 1978, United States District Court for the Central District of California, Petition #358462

really great find, jmm.

543210 is a mnemonic for the date when prohibition was lifted in Finland: 5th April (4th month) 1932 at 10 in the morning (local time).

O so they can remember things?

my grandparents got married on a date like that so they used it as their bank pin

Undoubtedly the most influential Jamaican-American entertainer is DJ Kool Herc, who is often credited as the inventor of hip hop. He immigrated to New York City and brought with him the roots of hip hop—a DJ isolating and repeating a percussion break while an MC spoke over the beats.

Second generation Jamaican Busta Rhymes was later an important gangsta rapper during the 1990s; his style is similar to that found in Jamaican dub and dancehall.

For more information about Caribbean cultural influence in the United States, see Holger Henke's, The West Indian Americans, Westport: Greenwood Press 2001.baton rouge la. kevin gates has also put reggie to use in his music with his rasta background

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

only on wikipedia would one find pawla humeniuk and gogol bordello mentioned in the same breath.

Ukrainian-Americans in the Cleveland and Detroit area have kept a folk scene alive, also producing a minor crossover star in the 1920s and 30s, Pawlo Humeniuk, the King of the Ukrainian Fiddlers.
Recently, the Ukrainian immigrant band Gogol Bordello have emerged into the mainstream.

Patty Melt is also a cartoon character and mascot costume used by state beef councils in the promotion of beef at public events. The character has made appearances at state fairs, NASCAR races, children's events, and cook-offs. The appearance of the Patty character is a large plush cheeseburger with a pink baseball hat and long blonde braids.[2]

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut holds the Major League Eating record for jalapeño poppers, eating 118 in 10 minutes at the University of Arizona on 8 April 2006. [5]

While the end result - a toasted sandwich - may be a snackwich (defined as a snack that resembles a sandwich but is small enough to be held in only one hand and eaten while the person is running), not all snackwiches are toasted sandwiches just as not all toasted sandwiches emerge from a heated clam shell

Botticelli's Birth Of Snackwich

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Suspicion.jpg/220px-Suspicion.jpg
An exaggeratedly suspicious person

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

Oyako Day is a day for parents and children in Japan to take photographs together

The name “Oyako” means “parent and child”

This article is an orphan

aw...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgNwDwIUMAA6P0j.jpg

wonderful

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

Take your pick from the biography section, but this bit tickled me:

In January 2013, Cullimore launched a civil action suit again Northampton Town footballer Luke Guttridge, after the latter struck and killed Cullimore's prized Alsatian dog with his converted school bus. In May of the same year the case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum

Aw.

(Remove joke information about legal action. Nothing on Google about this; obviously false.)

During his youth, Starr had been a devoted fan of skiffle and blues music, but by the time he joined the Texans in 1958, he had developed a preference for rock and roll.[219] He was also influenced by country artists, including Hank Williams, Buck Owens and Hank Snow, and jazz drummers such as Chico Hamilton and Yusef Lateef, whose compositional style inspired Starr's fluid and energetic drum fills and grooves.

O RLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hwXt4eGlw4

right but lateef = not a drummer

oh yeah

oops

In 2005, he bought the childhood home of Jeffrey Dahmer in Ohio. Dahmer had committed his first murder there before the family moved to Wisconsin. The house, built in 1952, had been featured in the Beacon Journal for its modern style, open layout and floor-to-ceiling windows that provided views of the wooded hillside. Butler said he was drawn to the house by its ‘50s style and big, wooded lot. It was perfect for his collections of Mid Century Modern furniture and British Invasion music equipment. It was also an ideal place for him and his Tin Huey bandmates to play without disturbing the neighbors. Butler couldn’t understand why the house had been on the market for six months and at an attractive price. His real estate agent then called to disclose the home’s infamous history. “I didn’t stop shaking for another 24 hours,” he said,[citation needed] "but the house was and is perfect, and with a great vibe, too."

"Hide the Bone" is a funk-rock number originally intended for The Gold Experience. A heavy drumbeat drives this sexual request for Prince to hide his "bone".

Ok, see, I'm not crazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faribault,_Minnesota#Geography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_Falls,_Minnesota#Population_growth_and_loss

Except this is the wrong wikipedia thread.

On December 2000, Mattel filed a lawsuit against the Aqua's record label Mattel v. MCA Records, 296 F.3d 894 9th Cir. 2002, claiming that "Barbie Girl" had damaged the reputation of the Barbie brand. Judge Alex Kozinski writing for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court finding the use of Mattel's trademark in "Barbie Girl" fell within the noncommercial use exemption to the Federal Trademark Dilution Act. Judge Kozinski concluded his opinion by writing, "The parties are advised to chill."

lol

Judges produce some excellent comedy sometimes

Michael Anderson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Anderson may refer to:

Other

Michael Anderson, Jr. (born 1943), British actor
Michael T. Anderson (born 1950), American mathematician
Michael Anderson (director) (born 1920), British film director
Michael J. Anderson (born 1953), American actor, notable for being a dwarf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel

In 1996, due to his contributions to the arts, he was honorably mentioned in the rock opera Rent during the song "La Vie Boheme", though his name was mispronounced on the original soundtrack.

#PettyOrHelpful?

Plot retelling of a film that's clearly not wellknown in the west:

Woman cop, Michèle Varin can not forget the death of his son, February 29, despite medication, alcohol and psychotherapy. She spends her evenings doing puzzles, alone with her pet rabbit. Terrified, like every four years by the approach of a new February 29, it must investigate the murder of a woman found hanged in the forest. The starting point of an unforgettable intimate adventure.

E. E. Cummings, who lived across the street, would check on her periodically by shouting out his window, "Are you still alive, Djuna?" Bertha Harris put roses in her mailbox, but never succeeded in meeting her; Carson McCullers camped on her doorstep, but Barnes only called down, "Whoever is ringing this bell, please go the hell away."

Michael Anderson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Anderson may refer to:

Other

Michael Anderson, Jr. (born 1943), British actor
Michael T. Anderson (born 1950), American mathematician
Michael Anderson (director) (born 1920), British film director
Michael J. Anderson (born 1953), American actor, notable for being a dwarf

― Tuomas, Monday, May 2, 2016 8:14 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is even more fucked up because anderson is not a dwarf