This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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

He recorded with Moondog, and was also for one night in 1981 a member of the English post-punk band Public Image Ltd.

it was a night worth living for

Rufus finds the two teenagers struggling to finish their history paper, which tasks them to describe how three historical figures would view the present San Dimas, trying to obtain help from customers at a local Circle K convenience store. Rufus initially has difficulty convincing the two of his help when a copy of the phone booth time machine arrives, and versions of Bill and Ted from some hours in the future step out. They are able to convince their earlier selves that Rufus can be trusted by correctly guessing the number the two were thinking of: 69 (the sex number).

fun fact: Joan of Arc was played by Jane Weidlin

In 1996, “Geritol” was the punchline of a joke in season 1, episode of the sitcom Moesha starring Brandy.

(seen on Twitter)

Great line in the Wikipedia article for ‘Australia-Japan relations’

There was some tension in the early stage of the relationship, such as World War II,

About the band Audience:

Years later people would listen to Axl Rose of Guns'n'Roses and find that Audience was ahead of its time. They were making music in the 1970s that would be "emulated" by bands like Guns'n'Roses. They were ahead of their time. Axl and the lead singer of Audience are almost indistinguishable except for the time warp.

Highly subjective and highly wrong.

Having hygienic means for anal cleansing available at the toilet or site of defecation is important for overall public health. The absence of proper materials in households can, under some circumstances, be correlated to the number of diarrhea episodes per household.[3]

Initially, the album (Mr Bad Guy by Freddie Mercury) was supposed to feature duets with Mercury and Michael Jackson ... sources state that Mercury dropped out of any future collaboration after feeling uncomfortable working with Jackson’s pet llama in the studio.

Does Wiktionary count?

Feist typically adds a negative moral judgment to the description, implying gluttony, laziness, and/or unrightful wealth. For example, ein feister Kapitalist (“a fat capitalist”).

Was scouring Feist's - the singer, not the fat, nor Raymond Feist - wiki for a droll comment on the same thread that brought you there lol

Any connecting with feisty?

That was my assumption at first but her last name is Feist. Then again, I'm sure she knows about the connection and is cool with it.

Welk was awarded four US design patents:

A musically themed restaurant menu[32]
An accordion-themed tray for serving food at a restaurant[33]
An accordion-themed tray for serving food at a restaurant[34]
An accordion-themed ashtray [35]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTlR1pXrcCCtFIG_0HU3Sb-ZAuW-4WaGU_mbQ&usqp=CAU

something about this sentence

Hamnett died in 1956 from complications after falling out of her apartment window and being impaled on the fence forty feet below.

complications of being impaled on a fence

initially, her prognosis was better, until we found out she was missing all of her internal organs

then she was downgraded to "critical"

Sounds like her doctors were "on the fence" for awhile!

"you have been diagnosed with...complications"

On November 30, 2017, there was a massive fire that destroyed and damaged 21 buildings that caught the attention of national media.[10] An amateur blacksmith, attempting to mimic the show Forged in Fire, started a barrel fire to forge with before losing control of it.

Wow, looking up Sousa I learned a couple of good 'uns:

Sousa ranked as one of the all-time great trapshooters and was enshrined in the Trapshooting Hall of Fame. He organized the first national trapshooting organization, a forerunner to today's Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA). He also wrote numerous articles about trapshooting. He was a regular competitor representing the Navy in trapshooting competitions, particularly against the Army. Records indicate that he registered more than 35,000 targets during his shooting career. "Let me say that just about the sweetest music to me is when I call, 'pull,' the old gun barks, and the referee in perfect key announces, 'dead'."

In his 1902 novella The Fifth String, a virtuoso violinist makes a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. The first four strings excite the emotions of Pity, Hope, Love, and Joy, but the fifth string, made from the hair of Eve, will cause the player's death once played. The violinist wins the love of the woman he desires, but out of jealous suspicion, she commands him to play the death string, which he does. He published Pipetown Sandy in 1905, which includes a satirical poem titled "The Feast of the Monkeys". He wrote a 40,000-word story entitled "The Transit of Venus" in 1920. He also wrote the booklet "A manual for trumpet and drum", published by the Ludwig drum company with advice for playing drums and trumpet. An early version of the trumpet solo to "Semper Fidelis" was included in this volume.

Sousa held a very low opinion of the emerging recording industry and he derided recordings as "canned music", a reference to the early wax cylinder records that came in can-like cylindrical cardboard boxes. He argued to a congressional hearing in 1906:

"These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy… in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape".

The Amityville Terror August 2, 2016 Michael Angelo
Amityville: No Escape August 5, 2016 Henrique Couto
Amityville: Evil Never Dies June 2017 Dustin Ferguson Sequel to The Amityville Legacy , Re-released as Amityville Clownhouse in 2020
Amityville Exorcism January 3, 2017 Mark Polonia Billy D'Amato
Against the Night September 15, 2017 Limited theatrical release Brian Cavallaro aka Amityville Prison
Amityville: The Awakening October 28, 2017 Franck Khalfoun
Amityville: Mt. Misery Road May 31, 2018 Chuck Morrongiello and Karolina Morrongiello Chuck Morrongiello
The Amityville Murders October 9, 2018 Daniel Farrands
The Amityville Dawn September 25, 2019 Direct-to-video Brandon Slagle Elliot Diviney and Brandon Slagle aka The Dawn
Amityville Island March 17, 2020 Mark Polonia John Oak Dalton
Amityville Vibrator June 6th, 2020 Nathan Rumler

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

Alternative version

The Italian version of this film, called Sexy Jeans, was edited with pornographic inserts.[9]

Dunking

In Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, one of the narrator's childhood memories sets in while tasting a madeleine dunked in tea. The soft, spongy consistency of the madeleine could seem like an odd choice as dunking is more common with crisp baked products, such as biscuits. In fact, draft versions of Proust's manuscript reveal that the author initially had the narrator dunk a piece of toasted bread

The band released debut album Vibrate You in May 2001 and follow-up Who Do You Love? in March 2004. The band was notable for their short, riotous live shows and built a small, dedicated fanbase, which, at present day, consists of one person, name unknown.

Hahaha

vg+

From the entry for Russell Webb (bass player for the Skids / Public Image Ltd)

Webb retired from performing to design board games. Following a discussion with Richard Branson at the latter's knighthood party, Branson agreed to take Webb's first board game (4 years in the making) entitled Lost to Necker Island for play testing with his family and children. The play testing was a success, but no game was released. Instead it became the initial inspiration for JJ Abrams' hit TV show Lost, for which Webb was never credited

lol that's great

Am assuming that Webb wrote that himself and still feels sore about it.

The United States government has determined that taquitos must contain at least 15% meat.

the taquito that defined a malnutrition

^ comment surpasses the RDA of lol

There's not so much an unexpected detail, but more of an unexpected hyperlink on the Wikipedia entry for Foxbase Alpha:

"The album was re-released in May 2009 as part of the Universal Music Deluxe Edition re-issue program. The album has been remastered, and is accompanied by a second disc featuring B-sides, mixes and five previously unreleased tracks. The CD booklet features new sleeve notes by Jon Savage and Tom Ewing, images and memorabilia."

edit history shows the reference was added by an ilx0r, but not the link

"On 20 October 2018, by adapting a construction by Aaron Williams for constructing Hamiltonian paths through the Cayley graph of the symmetric group, Greg Egan devised an algorithm to produce superpermutations of length n! + (n−1)! + (n−2)! + (n−3)! + n − 3."

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you.

Lol josh

The Add N to (X) article sounds like it was written by a(n analogue) computer

Andrew then asked his friend Barry Smith (a former Radio Prague DJ)[3] if he too would be interested in joining.[citation needed] They then spent some time gigging under this name before a fall out which led to Anderson's departure from the band. There being only three remaining Andrew then renamed the group Add N to X, based upon a mathematical formula.[4] They kept the name but placed brackets around the X due to legal reasons.

Fellow Greek singer Nana Mouskouri paid tribute to Roussos on the French radio station RTL, saying "He had a superb voice, he travelled in the world ... he loved what he was doing... He was an artist, a friend. I hope he is in a better world."[1]

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said: “This artist left a bright mark in the world music art and made history as one of the greatest singers, whose extremely emotional manner of singing caught the hearts of listeners all over the world ..."[44]

nana mouskori’s wikipedia page is full of unusual details btw

I watched 976-EVIL tonight and wondered what had become of its OTT star (Stephen 'EvilEd' Geoffreys of Fright Night infamy) and, well

During the 1990s, Geoffreys appeared for several years in gay pornographic movies, using the alias Sam Ritter.[4][5][6]

I guess he changed his name so no one would know about his horror movie infamy.

Film critic Marco Giusti writes that Kinski "is mad, hysterical, but dominates the film", remembers the nice intrigue around Kinski's character, and praises the lesbian scenes.

Nice one, Nicko.

The song was performed by the Cockerel Chorus (the cockerel is the emblem of Tottenham Hotspur) fronted by Spiro, with Jamie Phillips singing the opening operatic part.[8] It is also the first professional recording of future Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain.

between 896 and 904 there was a new pope every year

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod which is an absolute trove of wtf Rome

Sparta was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Wikipedia

Dialing code: +30

(Not Wikipedia but the standard Google precis you get when googling Sparta)

John C. McGinley made his character's voice as deep as possible in an effort to sound like Orson Welles. He has since admitted that this was a bad idea

"In June 2011, ARK Music Factory started charging $2.99 (equivalent to $3.4 in 2019) to watch the music video on YouTube" - I'm not sure you need to show the inflation adjusted number when it's only 8 years old.