This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

In the mythology of the 21st century North Yorkshire Moors it is believed that if you dance nine times widdershins around a fairy ring of toadstools you will come under the power of the fairy people. The story of Fairy Cross Plain (Fryup Dale) chronicles the fate of a young boy, Thomas Skelderskew, who did just that.[citation needed]

21st century??

The notion of the wild haggis is widely believed, though not always including the idea of mismatched legs.

from the Wikipedia Articles Written in Real Time department:

The Wacken show has started - against all further schedules and expectations - with a performance of Savatage on the Black Stage, featuring Gutter Ballet as first song. From the line-up only Pitrelli was missing, replaced by Circle II Circle guitarist Bill Hudson, and they also had a support by Vitalij Kuprij on keyboards. After seven songs the band has left the stage, and on the True Metal Stage TSO has begun to play with Pitrelli and its non-Sava members. Caffery, Middleton and Plate have replaced them on several songs, and Stevens had a duet with Andrew Ross in the song The Hourglass.

this is from the Keaton's Cop article:

"Keaton is a policeman that believes he is being followed by Abraham Lincoln. He has been lonely and wants to speak to Abe but his trusty sidekick, Jo Bracey, talks him out of it.

Little does Keaton know, Jo has a massive man crush on him and plans on seducing him later that night.

While Jo is seducing Keaton, an evil and robust, pastry eating man breaks into the house and kisses them.

Keaton and Jo begin a torrid love affair in which they have a love-child named Jake. Jake is kidnapped by Lt. Spencer and the original pastry eating man. They take Jake to Big Mama's house and they begin to play naked twister. They end up drinking too much and tell Jake about the time Jo dressed up as Dog the Bounty Hunter and played baseball for LSU.

Keaton and Jo, along with Rick Dante, Jimmy Gable and Abraham Lincoln, concoct the worst plan ever and try to rescue Jake from Big Mama's house. Jo uses his favorite purse to knock the door down and attacks Big Mama with an adult toy. Keaton prances into the residence and throws pastries at the evil, robust man and that soothes him to the point of a coma.

Jo grabs Jake and promises never to play baseball for LSU or wear women's clothing again. Abraham Lincoln then becomes a pirate and jumps off screen.

The end."

Check out the last edit. Someone removed half of the story for "obvious vandalism" but left that half?

Rendell's love of sports is well known. Rendell is a Philadelphia Eagles fan and is part of the panel on the Comcast Sportsnet show "Post Game Live", which airs after every Eagles regular and post-season game. Rendell was among the crowd in attendance for Bounty Bowl II in 1989, in which the unruly fans threw snow and ice at the field; Rendell wagered (and lost) $20 expecting that a fellow fan could not throw a snowball from the stands of the stadium to the field.[46]

has this twitter account been linked to itt? https://twitter.com/DeletedWiki

The Brooklyn Tip-Tops or "BrookFeds" of the Federal League, the only major league team ever named for a loaf of bread, acquired the ballpark property in 1914...

December 12 – The Archies' Sugar Sugar Jingle Jangle Christmas Show airs on CBS. It is not a success.

It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release. Inferno is now a major motion picture (movie).

from the article about infamous baseball play "Merkle's Boner":

Fred murkle this curse happend in 1908 what was sussposed to be a winning game some one triped fred and it somehow put a curse on the new york giants and this section is called boner

from later in same article:

Evers retrieved the ball and touched second base, although some reports stated that there was a second ball involved with this boner.

From Babe Ruth's called shot article, following four paragraphs that clearly say it was unclear what Babe's intentions were with his hand gesture, we get this gem

There is more footage that showed that Ruth's shot was called. The Hall of Fame and the Society for American Base-ball Research confirmed that the footage showed that Ruth did call the shot.

Woah woah, hey -- the "Thread for desperately grasping at straws in wikipedia articles" is that way, pal!

Trying to figure out Indian cinema from wikipedia is so often being presented with unknown names as if it's selfevident who it is.

'Kutty Srank (English: The Sailor of Hearts; Malayalam: കുട്ടിസ്രാങ്ക്) is a 2010 Indian Malayalam film directed by Shaji N. Karun. Mammootty played the title role for the film. The film was produced by Reliance Entertainment under the banner of Big Motion Pictures, the first ever production by Anil Ambani's newly launched entertainment concern in Malayalam.[1] The film was released at the theatres of Kerala on 23 July 2010. This film contains a nude scene.[2]'

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

all of the names in that paragraph are hyperlinked to other wiki articles explaining who they are?

Yeah, it's just the way it's written.

This film contains a nude scene.

Imagining thousands of Malayalam-speaking men thinking, "Oooh! This film is where the tittays at!"

according to google translate, the Malayalam for "Oooh! This film is where the tittays at!" is "വട്ട്! എവിടെ tittays ഈ ചിത്രമാണ്!".

With the ordeal over, Jennifer and the chimp[who?] embrace.

Storyline[edit]
The films sees some of the greatest martial arts action performed in a scene featuring Richard Norton, Cynthia Rothrock and a very youthful Andy Lau. Norton also shows off his great skill in using weapons, much to the annoyance of both Rothrock and Lau.

Locals favored the explanation that the meat was vomited up by buzzards (vultures), "who, as is their custom, seeing one of their companions disgorge himself, immediately followed suit."[5]

In 2014, the Mayor of New York performed a literal reverse ferret when he repealed a ban on owning domesticated ferrets within the city.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat#Notable_examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat#Notable_examples🔗

Unsinkable Sam ftw!

Note: there is fierce debate in the Gus fan community re the spelling of "Oyage." Some spell it "Oyatch!," while others give it a more Yugoslavian-sounding "Ojigdz!"

On Earth Run (1986) he used nine different guitars, most notably the SynthAxe ,whose power is Awesome

Thicknesse died on one such journey near Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, and was buried in this town. In his later life he had become an "ornamental hermit".

In his will he stipulated that his right hand be cut off, and that it should be delivered to his son, George, who was inattentive. The will stated that the reason was "to remind him of his duty to God after having so long abandoned the duty he owed to a father, who once so affectionately loved him."

brutal

brimstead skipped the next sentence:

The album also featured long-time collaborator Phil Perry for the first time, on the track "If I'm Dreaming, Don't Wake Me", a song also featuring David Foster and Maurice White who played wicked good (prove it?) on the recording.

brb going to replace all instances of [citation needed] with (prove it?)

When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed. Based on Latin principles, the correct adjectival form of the name would be Venerean. However, this term has an unfortunate similarity to the word venereal as in venereal diseases (related to "Venerean" as martial is to "Martian"), and is not generally used by astronomers.[1] The term Venusian is etymologically messy (similar to saying "Earthian" or "Jupiterian"), and a "cleaner" version was desired.

A common theme in art, The Birth of Venus is shown in this 1879 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
It was suggested that since Venus had a Greek name, as well as a Roman one, this should be used; however, the adjectival form of Aphrodite was "aphrodisial", which again was felt to be unfortunately close to "aphrodisiac", again evoking matters not directly pertaining to astronomy.

A compromise was reached. In Greek mythology, the goddess Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, from which she emerged on a sea shell at the island of Cythera, and as such was sometimes known as Cytherea.[2] The adjective Cytherean was taken from this name and remained popular in scientific literature for some time. Its perhaps forgotten usage in 18th century erotica[3] did not interfere with this choice.

The term has since fallen out of common use. Venusian is the form most frequently used, with others, including Venerean appearing from time to time;[4] the term Cytherean is now mostly found in older scientific papers, but some scientists still stick to the "tasteful" naming.[5] In addition, the word "Cytherean" as an adjective referring to Venus is often found in science fiction of the early and mid 20th century.[citation needed]

related to the previous post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectivals_and_demonyms_of_astronomical_bodies

This is what I am doing on saturday night

I guess all this Venerean people were purposefully being Venusian Blind.

Amid all the disagreement resulting from differences within sources, two factors emerge from all sources pertaining to Socrates. It would seem, therefore, that he was ugly, and that Socrates had a brilliant intellect

The Santa emoji had a frown on Android 4.4, which was resolved in Android 5.0 after a bug report was filed.

The cycle's inordinate length when (as was intended to be possible) it is played together, 22 hours, rendered the 9-hour Illuminatus! a mere bagatelle by comparison.

poor Socrates

The initial writing of the scene had the maggot only stripping and consuming a topless Dameia, but producer Roger Corman had promised financial backers of the movie a sex scene involving O’Connell, so he merged the two ideas together.

The cycle's inordinate length when (as was intended to be possible) it is played together, 22 hours, rendered the 9-hour Illuminatus! a mere bagatelle by comparison.

That's not even the most unusual detail in Ken Campbell's wiki entry. There's a few to choose from , but how about:

....each set change the entire audience was wafted 1/2000th-of-an-inch above the floor aboard an industrial hovercraft

That's not Neil Oram's "The Warp" then?

Yes, the 22 hours cycle is referring to the Warp.

I wish i'd seen, or at least dipped into, the 1999 Warp revival, directed by Ken Campbell's daughter:

"the first groundbreaking collaboration with rave organisers Megatripolis was let loose, with the performance in one space whilst a 24-hour rave went on elsewhere in the so-called "Millennium Drome" beneath the arches of London Bridge railway terminus."

I enjoyed her Illuminatus! play in 2014, which featured some of the old (90s) Warp cast.

In June 1983, the Romney family left their Belmont, Massachusetts home on their way to Romney's parents' cottage in Beach O'Pines, Ontario for an annual vacation along the shore of Lake Huron. Seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of the family's Chevrolet Caprice station wagon for the 12 hour trip. Romney had built a windshield for the carrier to make the ride more comfortable for the dog. During the 650-mile (1,050 km) trip, Seamus got diarrhea. Romney stopped at a gas station to wash the dog, the carrier and the car. With Seamus back in the carrier, the family continued on their way.

those last three sentences are stunning

When this design was revealed on the shortlist, the public immediately nicknamed it "Hypnoflag" and "Monkey Butt" via social media.[45][46]

Unfortunately the only mention of 'Seamus' in Mitt Romney's wiki is a link in the references section to this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120610211419/http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/01/08/what_our_fascination_with_mitt_romneys_dog_seamus_says_about_our_culture/?page=full

Sometime during a 12-hour drive from Boston to Canada in 1983, Mitt’s oldest son, Tagg, noticed a brown liquid running down the rear window of the family station wagon.

when Mitt goes to hell he's going to be reliving this moment for an eternity

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (stylized as HOME ALONe2: Lost in New York)

In 1963, when the song was debuted to a British audience on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, the celebrity guest John Lennon voted the song "a miss" stating on the new song that Elvis Presley was "like Bing Crosby now". The song went on to reach number 1 in the UK for a single week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(You're_the)_Devil_in_Disguise

John Lennon otm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Theft_(Bob_Dylan_album)

This album has been incorrectly cited as being recorded digitally into Pro Tools.[citation needed] This album was recorded to a Studer A800 mkIII @ 30ips on BASF/Emtec 900 tape at +6/250 nanowebers per meter. Pro Tools was used solely for editing of specific tracks and was thus used very sparingly. Whatever work was done in Pro Tools was flown right back to the 2-inch (51 mm) masters. It was mixed from the 2-inch (51 mm) masters to an Ampex ATR-102 1-inch 2-track customized by Mark Spitz at ATR Services.[citation needed]

In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album was released, Dylan said "these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music... I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I'm about. I know they think they do, and yet it's ludicrous, it's humorous, and sad. That such people have spent so much of their time thinking about who? Me? Get a life, please. It's not something any one person should do about another. You're not serving your own life well. You’re wasting your life."

In addition to writing, Conroy was an accomplished jazz pianist, winning a Grammy Award in 1986 for liner notes.