This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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

In the first book, a wealthy arms manufacturer, Dr Baines, comes to a black magician, Theron Ware. Initially Baines tests Ware's credentials by asking for two people to be killed, first the Governor of California, Rogan (Reagan was governor at the time of writing) and then a rival physicist. When this accomplished to Baines' satisfaction Baines reveals his real reason: he wishes to release all the demons from hell for one night to see what might happen. The book includes a lengthy description of the summoning ritual, and a detailed (and as accurate as possible, given the available literature) description of the grotesque figures of the demons as they appear.

The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the Billboard pop music charts—it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album in history.[8] The follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Again! was also a massive success, and both albums held the Billboard #1 and #2 spots simultaneously, a feat unequaled until the 1991 release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II by hard rock band Guns N' Roses.[6]

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

Kingskettle is a small village in Fife, Scotland. It is situated in the Howe of Fife, around a mile south of Ladybank. It is home to The Singing Kettle shop. It has a bowling club that needs more members.

i'd c&p john terry's page but you can't highlight what isn't said

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

The show had a typically 80s synthetic, catchy & melancholy theme tune

The song's full lyrics were:
(opening credits)[1]
We're off to Button Moon, we'll follow Mr. Spoon,
Button Moon, Button Moon.

^^melancholy

Did not know this:

composed and performed by Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson, who were married at the time.

Several candidate details in this article about the Dutch pub De Hems in London's Chinatown.

But perhaps the oddest is
Another patron at that time was the notorious spy, Kim Philby, who was friendly with the chef, who wore a tall white hat.

like wot chefs nearly always do then???

He was also something of a trendsetter

OMFG, I didn't know he had label! The Creation Records thread led me to wiki Mishka to see whats up and:

Mishka (born Alexander Mishka Frith,[1] 1974) is an internationally known reggae artist from Bermuda. He released his first self-titled album Mishka in 1999 and had a hit single in the UK with "Give You All The Love". He is currently signed to Matthew McConaughey's record label, j.k. livin, and is touring in support of his latest album, Talk About.

j.k. livin

! ! ! !

I know, right!

Woolf's work was criticised for epitomising the narrow world of the upper-middle class English intelligentsia. Some critics judged it to be lacking in universality and depth,[citation needed] without the power to communicate anything of emotional or ethical relevance to the disillusioned common reader,[citation needed]

This isn't unusual as such but the brevity of the entry just struck me as funny.

"Date With IKEA" is a song by rock band Pavement. It is one of the tracks on their 1997 album Brighten the Corners (Matador Records).[1]

Cultural references
IKEA is a popular furniture store.

See also
IKEA, furniture store.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rik_Mayall

After transfer to hospital in London, he took a taxi home but was taken back that day after being sedated. He was to take medication for a year to prevent epileptic seizures. Mayall stopped taking it. He had epileptic seizures.

lol

GID might be an acronym or an abbreviation for:
Walter Halvorsen

On November 4, 2011; Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly indicted Sandusky on 40 counts of sex crimes against young boys, following a three-year investigation into allegations that he had inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old boy over the course of four years, beginning when the boy was ten years old. The boy's parents reported the incident to police in 2009.[12] A grand jury identified eight boys singled out for sexual advances or sexual assaults by Sandusky from 1994 through 2009. [13] At least 20 of the incidents allegedly took place while Sandusky was still employed at Penn State.[14]

...

On November 6, Penn State banned Sandusky from campus.[21] The Creamery ice cream shop on the Penn State campus subsequently removed from its menu the "Sandusky Blitz": a "banana flavored ice cream with chocolate covered peanuts and caramel swirl".[22][23]

hmmmm

Mickey Green (born 1942) is an English criminal, who has also held Irish nationality. A convicted armed robber he has allegedly been one of Britain's leading drug dealers for many years and is said to be worth at least £75 million[1].

Green was the leader of the "Wembley Mob" which specialized in armed robbery in the 1970s. For a number of years he has been wanted by police in several countries around the world for suspected drug smuggling;Mickey is also wanted for the theft of Kevin's Mum's bicycle,back in the late 50s... Gangland sources have described him as a main suspect in the slayings of London criminal figures Gilbert Wynter and Solly Nahome. His ability to evade arrest has led to him being nicknamed the pimpernel. He is said to have first become involved with drugs during the early 1980s shortly after his release from prison, for armed robbery. He has been suspected of having a number of detectives on his payroll and of being an associate of the Adams Brothers.

from Lil Wyte article:

Lanshaw discovered his rapping talent at the age of nine, as he could rap Sir Mix-a-Lot's entire song "Baby Got Back" completely.

from Jim Jones article, "Early Life" section:

He claimed he would stay at a store a block from the church he attended, and would go in and hang out with the owner and when the owner left, he took all the money in the register and candy and would sell it in school, he was later expelled.

I love wikipedia articles that read like US daytime TV documentaries. It's that comma before the last little bit of information.

"South Downs" when re-released on the "The Thrill of It All" boxset was accidentally released backwards, but due to the synthetic nature of the string sound, it didn't sound weird.

Academic interpretations of Inseminoid have concentrated on its treatment of the female sex and female sexualities in the context of corruption from an alien source. In addition to its depiction of the abject Sandy, who is rendered a distorted Other in the aftermath of her unnatural impregnation, the film is seen to incorporate a clash between the patriarchal and the maternal at its climax, as the mother-to-be eliminates her former friends one at a time.

Has anyone else been enjoying Jimmy Wales face directly above the title of *every* entry?

why yes indeed we have

LOL ... in my EXCELSIOR?

nice, was wondering.

the url is really all u need
http://www.sociopathworld.com/2010/12/narcissists-in-media-jimmy-wales.html

Thank you for letting me know about a website called sociopathworld where people speculate on whether others are sociopaths. There goes my morning.

Don Johnson is also a good friend of Willie Nelson and Robert Tepper, and was briefly a part of the "Thailand Pack", alongside Tommy Morrison, and British TV funny man Les Dennis.

One oddity connected with this series relates to the lack of a collected edition hardcover book usually offered by the Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). Nearly every Star Wars book has been published in hardcover through the club. The future plans for the publication of this trilogy remains unknown.

She was one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity.[3].

Themes brought up are: powerlessness, family systems, arrested development, boundaries, abuse, cultural pervasiveness of sex addiction, the denial of the addict, the relationship of money and sexuality, intimacy disorders, codependence, infidelity, secrecy, prostitution, print and video pornography at home and work, discovery of sex addiction by others, and of course, addiction as a coping method for trauma and uncomfortable feelings, namely shame. The movie has received critical acclaim for its brutally realistic and extremely sensitive depiction of a sophisticated, urbane man in the throes of powerlessness.

^^ future summary of my biopic

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

Kursa Nasau is a politician from Tokelau. He is a member of the Council for the Ongoing Government of Tokelau, and is a failpule on Atafu. He also was one of the founding members of the united nations of Tokelauinian emperism in the third century after dynasty. In addition, he denies the existence of Asia and Australia but does not deny the existence of kangaroos.
Though this is seen as a win in cultural politics on the isle of Hawaï. He recently found the meaning of his life in the search for the answer to the question: "does the pope shit in the woods." Though the pope denies he does, his clairvoyant kangaroos clearly told him he does!

Hoffs was actually naked when she recorded the song, after being convinced by Sigerson that Olivia Newton-John got her amazing performances by recording everything while naked.[9]

I was so into Susanna Hoffs as a teenager that it might have killed me to know that at the time.

Its killing me to know that now!

^^^

I mean, have you seen her lately? She still looks fantastic, especially with being 52!

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

[4] The reception room of his home contained a number of pieces of ivory cutlery, deliberately intended as a pun on his name.[5]

what a cool guy

In the bio of Rich Little: In 1991 he reprised the role of Nixon as ideal sperm donors in Gina's fantasies on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

huh. the article for donkey punch contains a helpful and mildly nsfw animated gif.

"mildly"

also your username is appropriate for so many reasons right now

ha...i KNEW that's what for this thread were bumped

HA! holy shit

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

Ask gygax!?

Ask Ned Day