This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif

In Colin Wheildon’s tests on the comprehensibility (rather than the legibility) of serif versus sans serif type, sans died a thousand deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston_Drenthe

Music career
Drenthe has recorded a rap song with his friend, Liverpool winger Ryan Babel. Their song is called "Tak Takie".[citation needed]

― cajunsunday, dinsdag 31 augustus 2010 12:11 (5 days ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRn8k0HZb68

Ryan Babel let himself go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Ferguson

While in prison Ferguson developed a keen interest in Bolivan handcrafts.

haha

misspelled handjobs imo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Fraser

his grandson Tommy Fraser is a professional footballer,[2] currently captain of League Two side Port Vale. According to legend, when he was at Brighton, Tommy was asked by a local reporter if his grandfather ever came to watch him play. "No," came the reply. "But he reads your reports and he was unhappy you only gave me six out of 10 last week." Tommy never got less than seven again.

fuckin legernd

wonder if he gets 'the boys' to 'have a word' with opposition players before each game?

the edits on that ilm entry are hilarious

from an entry about a stephen king short story

"Overwhelmed with incredulous fury, Steve loses interest in reconciliation; Diane's self-empowering harangue is interrupted by a much-deserved slap across the face."

Grammer studied singing in high school, among other more academic topics.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverclyde_Academy

Motto RESPECT HARRY POTTER

“It’s Tricky” was released to let people know that rap is not as simple as people think it is.

from RUN-D.M.C. article

lol

http://i.imgur.com/KmrFI.png

LOL

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/922d12d1b4c8d0693dde270a7a4d6ab4.png

RIP bass

Ian Stewart shows up quite a bit in the late 60s and early 70s. graph.fail.org

Buffalo wings were also mentioned fairly early on Bartles & James wine advertisements; the actor in the spots seemed confused, thinking that he had never seen a buffalo fly.

In the episode "Calling All Customers", Mrs. Slocombe calls a lonely trucker on Mr. Humphries’ CB radio, setting up perhaps the most intricate "pussy" joke of the series. The trucker tells her he’s hauling dynamite, and proceeds to ask her about her interests. She notes gardening, but that her pussy is her favorite hobby. She exclaims that she has a mantel full of trophies and that it wins a medal every time she shows it. Then follows the sound of screeching tires and an explosion. Mr. Humphries laments, "He’s pulled off for a coffee".

Hurrah for youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtziMfnWME&feature=related

On March 8, 1983, Holland filed for divorce. Under California's community property laws, she was entitled to 50 percent of all the assets accumulated during the marriage, even though Carson earned virtually 100 percent of the couple's income. (Since, under the community property provisions of California law, each party legally earns half for themselves and half for their spouse.)

Not so much an unusual detail as an intriguing piece of redundance

Cyndi Lauper's mid-tempo ballad cover version of "When You Were Mine" is also synthesizer-based. Lauper did not change the pronoun gender in the song lyrics, which caused it to allude that the lost love to whom she is singing is a gay man who came out of the closet and is having a new affair with another man, or to a bisexual male lover.

From the entry on Chuck Clayton: "In stories where he plays sports, Chuck is usually seen with an afro, while in stories where he is focused on drawing he sports a flat top."

In 1921, Andrew Kanelos was inspired by the frosty majesty of the Andes Mountains. Dumbstruck with inventive genius, Andrew or Andy as he was known by his friends, decided to bring this same beauty to people's mouths everywhere when he yelled from the infamous Dead Man's peak "I'll put that magic in your mouth."

hahaha

not really unusual but intersting - I had no idea this was why Lester retired.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kinnear)

On 19 September 1988, Kinnear fell from a horse during the filming of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain, sustaining a broken pelvis. He was taken to hospital in Madrid, and died from a heart attack the following day. He was 54 years old. The film's director, Richard Lester, quit his own film career as a direct result of Kinnear's death.

it's the first picture's caption that's just killing me

Infant

also from the talk page on that one, an unusual detail that has tragically been edited out.

seven toes?

Babies have also been known to be born with seven toes.

is this really necessary? 24.234.170.197 20:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

True - but they have been born with many other deformities too - they don't need to be listed. Maustrauser 22:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC

LOL. "An infant".

loled @ "an infant"

srsly lold so hard

From the page on Johnny Kidd & The Pirates:

The b-side to Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' 1964 single "Always and Ever" was a cover of "Dr Feel-Good", by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman (also known as "Piano Red") who recorded the song as "Dr Feelgood & The Interns". The name of the song is slang for heroin. The band Dr. Feelgood took their name from the Johnny Kidd & The Pirates recording.[3]

In 1998, Daniel Baldwin was found running naked through the halls of New York's Plaza Hotel shouting "Baldwin!" and was arrested for possession of cocaine.

Wonder where he kept it...

In his baldwin?

haha, was he pointing out that he was a baldwin?! like "baldwin approaching! baldwin on the loose!"

baldwin, or bald fail?

It was long reported that the final written words of Walt Disney were Kurt Russell's name scribbled on a piece of paper. Russell confirmed that he had seen the paper himself, but did not know what Disney was trying to convey.

hahaha you are making that up

its true actually

As animals native to Europe, hedgehogs hold a rightful place in European folklore. Since the mammal did not possess any "righteous" qualities, it never made it to the court art; however, its relationships with fairy tales has been a long and fruitful one.

Whoa, the Kurt Sussel thing might actually be true!

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/04/24/kurt_russell_confirms_that_walt_disney_s

Russell.

wow

it is true

I am sad, because the entry for Rude Dog and the Dweebs on Wikipedia used to have something in there about how there was a controversy about whether or not Rude Dog was "on 'roids"

Now it's gone :(

# Mikel John Obi (born 1987), a popular Nigerian footballer based in England
# Victor Nsofor Obinna (born 1987), a renowned Nigerian footballer

Be careful what signs you make with your hands - you might get sued by a wrestler.

On August 31, 2010 professional wrestler "Diamond" Dallas Page filed a lawsuit against 3OH!3 for copyright infringement of his trademarked "Diamond Cutter" symbol. The gesture is made by connecting the thumbs and index fingers of one's hands in a single vertical plane. Page's gesture is meant to be in the shape of a diamond to correspond with his wrestling nickname, while 3OH!3's gesture is meant to symbolize the bands's name with the middle finger, ring finger and little finger representing the number three on either side of the empty space created by joining the index fingers and thumbs which represents the 'OH'. The lawsuit is for unauthorized use of the copyrighted logo which was used to promote the band. Page previously filed a similar lawsuit against rapper Jay-Z in 2005 which resulted in Page dropping the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3OH!3