This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

xp Deserves to be on the Real England thread.

There was also a limited edition "Slime Pack" planned, which was never released after several packs leaked before shipping and the slime-substance was found to be toxic.

To avoid problems with European censors, Borkon cautioned Franju not to include too much blood (which would upset French censors), refrain from showing animals getting tortured (which would upset English censors) and leave out mad-scientist characters (which would upset German censors).

In 2021, after complex work, Kilmer's voice was able to be re-created through AI technology using archival audio of his voice.

On Guitar Slim, with no further explanation:

He got together with Muddy Waters in Los Angeles, California, for some lively playing.[10]

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His childhood home was the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As a teenager, he attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, where his classmates included actor Wallace Shawn.[4]

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Further novels in the Rennie Stride series are California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop (May 2009), Love Him Madly: Murder at the Whisky (March 2010), A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (January 2011), Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock (November 2012), and Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East (December 2014). The most recent in the series is Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock&Roll (published March 2016).

LOL

On French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon, White Mane:

He also invented the strategic board game Risk in 1957.

damn!

travelling back on the rennie stride clue-trial a bit carelessly i was briefly persuaded that these books are the work of the legendary PAT BAG formerly of THE BAGS -- which seemed genuinely like a bogdanoff twins arc tbh :(

The film was shot in Ireland to exploit tax breaks and local resources. [2] The film was also involved in a defamation suit between Dennis Hopper and Rip Torn where Hopper publicly stated Torn pulled a knife on him on the set of Easy Rider back in the 60s. Hopper's representatives tried to settle the defamation suit by floating the offer of a supporting role in Space Truckers which Torn's representatives refused.[3]

Torn missed out on meeting Stevolende!

Loool! I had to look that one up. Is there only the one post?

The band were also affected by the death during the sessions of their friend Gram Parsons: on the day before Parsons' death, he and Richman had played miniature golf and discussed recording together.

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I knew about the connection but not about that very last part.

What, the miniature golf or the recording together? I can't help but be more excited about the former tbh.

Ha, both but really the first of those tbh.

The music video was an unintended spoof of the music video for the single "Feel So Good" by rapper Mase,

I always thought the word spoof implied... intent?

From the Bowie wiki regarding the Diamond Dogs tour, which apparently had an enormous theatrical production thing going on:

Other props worked as expected: for the song "Big Brother", Bowie sang while atop a multi-mirrored glass "asylum", emerging during the next song ("Time") sitting in the palm of a giant hand covered in small light bulbs.[1]

The show in Tampa, Florida, was performed without any of the stage props because the truck driver driving those components ended up in a highway ditch after being stung by a bee.[1]

File under "Spinal Tap was too accurate to be funny"

Everyone's a critic.

Austin Churton Fairman (15 November 1924 – 4 April 1997), who used the name Churton Fairman but was more widely known under the pseudonym Mike Raven in the 1960s and early 1970s, was a British radio disc jockey, actor, sculptor, sheep farmer, writer, TV presenter and producer, ballet dancer, flamenco guitarist and photographer.

This guy obviously could never make up his mind what to do with his life.

sculptor:
http://www.bodminmoor.co.uk/churtonfairman/jacob.gif

(could be worse)

And you should see his sheep.

Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly felt that the album didn't live up to what it should be because it is too loud, but some songs on the album are good.[10]

yooooooo
https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

totally addicted to this, thanks forks

yeah this is cool

although got to dispute "Gigabyte Technology - Electronics Company" being created in the year 789 !

lol i complained about that specific example on the Spelling Bee thread

I consistently underrate how old banks and companies are

The other day I started with

"Gothic art - Style of Medieval art developed in Northern France" dated 1530.

The next card was "The Cure - English rock band" dated 1976.

I lol'd at the juxtaposition

the amount of detail going into Kreayshawn's attempts at completing high school always caught me as "who asked?"

At the age of 13, Natassia enrolled at MetWest High School, which she described as a "new alternative type of high school". Instead of having the usual classes, such as English and mathematics, she had to take an internship at a local radio station three days a week. She was dissatisfied with the lack of work and wanted to go to a normal high school, so she switched to Oakland High School. However, according to Kreayshawn, she "went to none of her classes, ever" at her new school, which led to her finishing the term with a 0.0 grade point average and getting expelled for truancy. After taking a short break, she went to Alameda High School but after a few months she was expelled. After the incident, she then enrolled in the continuation high school, Island High, where she then completed her second year. While attending, she again began skipping school for weeks on end. After two weeks, she returned to find out the school moved to a different location. Since she had no address or any contact with the school she was unable to find the new location and never went back.

1530 is hella late and wrong for Gothic art

Lol at “my school moved and I can’t find it”

i had that Gothic date in a game, it was for when it "ended" FWIW. why that particular year, i have no idea. picking "ends" to styles silly to begin with of course.

that is legendary!! i mean her parents were probably flipping but wow

Their last performance, on a Monsters of Rock cruise in October 2016, ended with several dozen mostly middle-aged women dancing wildly to the song "Girlschool".

The Snopes.com website debunks the rumor of an Our Gang curse, stating that there was no pattern of unusual deaths when taking all of the major Our Gang stars into account, despite the deaths of a select few.[51]

oh well in that case

Initially, the band went out on tour in December 2003 under the name "The Jon Oliva Project", but this was later changed to "'Tage Mahal". The band's name was changed after discovering the blues musician Taj Mahal.

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Soft and gentle vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dooley Wilson, Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Jackie Gleason, Wayne Newton, Louis Prima, Sam Butera and Bobby Vinton are notable examples of lounge music.

Gonna drift off to sleep tonight with the soft and gentle sounds of Louis Prima and Sam Butera

That's one of the sub-Borgesian lists of different things that are not quite alike.

André dated actress Rosario Dawson from 2016 to 2017.[19] In March 2021, André revealed he was in a relationship with a woman that he met at a farmer's market and that she did not know he was famous until after they started dating.[20]

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