This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

hardly to be contemplated, darragh

quite right quite right

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

More recently, Wooten has developed a new electronic instrument called the RoyEl, which resembles a piano but plays notes not found in the traditional western music scales. This instrument is based on the periodic table of elements and the golden ratio.

In 2005, Wooten pleaded guilty to income tax evasion, after having been indicted on charges in 2001 that he had not filed or paid taxes between 1995 and 1998.[4] He earlier had been judged incapable of assisting in his own defense after filing incomprehensible sovereign citizen paperwork with the court.

the Just Intonation ---- Sovereign Citizen axis

See also

* Allegory
* Autobiographical novel
* Blind item
* Creative nonfiction
* Defamation
* List of narrative techniques
* Non-fiction novel
* Semi-fiction
* Small penis rule

The song humorously describes about a marriage that is obviously opposite of one in a traditional manner, particularly because the wife -- the female narrator -- fantasizes of a luxurious lifestyle. The wife explains that, after finishing a supposed hectic workday, she undergoes a feminine makeover (supposedly at a local spa). She returns to a deteriorating mobile home, where she and her husband reside, with high expectations that her husband will provide her a romantically intimate evening, only to find herself unenthusiastically preparing supper for him while he watches television and consumes beer and clearly not caring to display any sympathy towards his wife.

Black spent his summers in a cabin on Fremont Older's property in California, next to a pool.[1] When MacMillan asked Black to write another book, he was too weak even to swim, according to Mrs. Fremont Older.[1] He didn't write another book.

He has founded several startups, including Acacia Biosciences (now part of Merck & Co.)

Also he lost his laptop once.[2][3]

Etruscan had some influence on Latin, as a few dozen Etruscan words and names were borrowed by the Romans, some of which remain in modern languages, among which are possibly columna "column", voltur "vulture", tuba "trumpet", vagina "sheath", populus "people".[9]

In 1999, Lanzoni was struck in the face by a goose while riding Apollo's Chariot roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.[5][6]

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*q5L-SqlhiWNYibMfcw5XxA.jpeg

https://medium.com/@miketoole/it-has-been-twenty-years-since-fabio-killed-a-goose-with-his-face-on-a-roller-coaster-a87d51285890

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

In order to travel safely and affordably in France, Psalmanazar decided to pretend to be an Irish pilgrim on his way to Rome. After learning English, forging a passport, and stealing a pilgrim's cloak and staff from the reliquary of a local church he set off, but he soon found that many people he met were familiar with Ireland and were able to discern that he was a fraud.[4] Deciding that a more exotic disguise was needed, Psalmanazar drew upon the missionary reports about East Asia that he had heard of from his Jesuit tutors and decided to impersonate a Japanese convert. At some point he further embellished this new persona by pretending to be a "Japanese heathen" and exhibiting an array of appropriately bizarre customs, such as eating raw meat spiced with cardamom and sleeping while sitting upright in a chair.

... and that's just the start of this guy's story...

According to Psalmanazar, Formosa was a prosperous country with a capital city called Xternetsa. Men walked naked except for a gold or silver plate to cover their genitals. Their main food was a serpent that they hunted with branches. Formosans were polygamous and husbands had a right to eat their wives for infidelity. They executed murderers by hanging them upside down and shooting them full of arrows. Every year they sacrificed the hearts of 18,000 young boys to gods, and their priests ate the bodies. They used horses and camels for transport, and dwelled underground in circular houses.

sounds like Ireland to me

In 2001, the grounding of aircraft following the September 11 attacks left a number of performers stranded in cities they had been performing in.[5] After the attacks, a new wave of poetry slam started within New York City with a community focus on poets coming together to speak about the terrorist attacks.[5]

yes, all those jet-setting slam poets being stranded. what a notable phenomenon

Two ways 9/11 could've been worse:

1.) If drones had been more prevalent, they would've flown them up the towers to take close-up videos of the stranded people.

2.) A large number of slam poets could've been stranded in my town for days.

Whilst Rector at Glasgow, Kane had a column at the Glasgow University Guardian which was then edited by Iain Martin. Kane's copy was the subject of two notorious edits – a reference to the scholar Raymond Williams was altered to Kenneth Williams, and the sociologist Alvin Toffler to Alvin Stardust.[3]

this article is goddamn nothing but unusual details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linx_(band)

An accompanying music video does not follow the dramatic story told in the song at all and instead centers on Jessica in a photo shoot.

junior giscombe's contribution to walsalls deep run in the paint trophy in 87 wont soon be forgotten

It was confirmed on 7 September 2017 that the show had received a makeover with the set and titles card being updated. The new set will have Greek statues all around the back.

So it turns out René Auberjonois is a Bonaparte. Huh.

His mother, Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (1913–1986), was a great-great granddaughter of Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire, and his wife, Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest sister.

nice

Davis briefly dated musician Eric Clapton whom she refused to collaborate with because she reportedly felt his work was too banal.

Aubrey was married to actor Derren Nesbitt, from 1961 to 1973. They had one daughter, Kerry but divorced after Nesbitt thrashed her with a leather strap

Allison also asserted Moore was having an affair that he was “neither discreet nor inconspicuous” about, leaving receipts for dinners with his lover around the house and buying her a t-shirt with the words “Doing It.”

When he was 15, he got his first paid job as a bingo caller at Barry's Amusements in Portrush. He was paid £1 per hour for the summer job and would also, on occasions, work as the brake man on the big dipper.[2][12]

Shirley Jackson, the author of the novel on which Lizzie was based, was reportedly unimpressed with the film, calling it "Abbott and Costello meet a multiple personality."[2]

In association with long term friend Steve McManaman, Fowler has invested in several racehorses through a chattily named company The Macca and Growler Partnership, most notably 2003 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Celebration Chase runner-up Seebald.

The province is also known for blueberry grunt.

One of the six, Mark Ellis, became a One Nation candidate in 2018. Apparently, One Nation doesn’t have a problem with police officers standing over and terrorising First Nations children.[3]

There’s nothing unusual about a white power party not having a problem with police harassing brown children.

One Klingon speaker, d'Armond Speers, raised his son Alec to speak Klingon as a first language, whilst the boy's mother communicated with him in English.[18] Alec rarely responded to his father in Klingon, although when he did, his pronunciation was "excellent". After Alec's fifth birthday, Speers reported that his son eventually stopped responding to him when spoken to in Klingon as he clearly did not enjoy it, so Speers switched to English.[19][20]

is it too late to call social services?

This is perfectly normal language attrition for children of Klingon immigrants.

He also supports Scottish football club Rangers F.C. and was quoted, "My grandad was a Glasgow Rangers fan. We used to go see Rangers play together."[17]

*boak*

He is a supporter of Everton Football Club.[4] and has been owner or joint owner of a number of racehorses trained by Mrs S C Bradburne, Nick Alexander, A Balding and M D Hammond. He also wears spectacles.

He also supports Scottish football club Rangers F.C. and was quoted, "My grandad was a Glasgow Rangers fan. We used to go see Rangers play together."[17]
*boak*

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, April 29, 2019 4:35 PM (two days ago) Bookmark

who's this?

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

on my banned list now

Purple drank is a recreational drug that includes a prescription-strength cough syrup used in a manner inconsistent with its labeling and mixed with a carbonated soft drink.

i just mentioned the film Darkness Falls on the Stephen King thread and this bit of info about its production stood out...

While filming on location in Brisbane, Australia, a strange aggressive young boy by the name of Jacob Francis Worrall was hired to be the body double for the young Kyle Walsh. The part was a minor roll requiring 2-3 days on set at most, however it quickly became apparent to cast and crew alike that 'Baby Jake' wasn't going away easily. The actions taken by the 13 year old Jacob shocked and appalled the crew, when needed on set Jacob would throw tantrums and refuse to leave the toilets, biting and swearing he was normally wrangled onto set. Some allegations of Jake intentionally exposing himself to male and female cast members began to circulate and the child actor was promptly fired. Jacob Francis Worrall still lives in Brisbane and owns a successful Coffee shop located in Springhill, Brisbane City.

...talk about a twist ending

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Blackburn_%26_Philbin_Radio_1_Roadshow_early_1980s.jpg/1280px-Blackburn_%26_Philbin_Radio_1_Roadshow_early_1980s.jpg

... from Maggie Philbin's wiki page. But why?

you know why

xref up the arse corner

The only photo on the Trebor Extra Strong mints Wiki page pic.twitter.com/UVzf2vsLM3

— Big Payno (@GaryBlogden) May 14, 2019

oops, relevant caption hidden there: "Horses are known to like eating these mints"

horses love mints innit?

gotta love "a horse, yesterday"-style picture choices tho

"the film continues to enjoy cult status among aficionados of musicals, bio-pics and events for which one or more wars serve as a backdrop."