This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Blonde on Blonde?

Sandanista!

Ugh
Sandinista!

Mittelhäusern railway station (German: Bahnhof Mittelhäusern) is a railway station in the municipality of Köniz, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Bern–Schwarzenburg line of BLS AG. He cannot be avoided.

Mittelhäusern railway station

RE Firesign Theater: Dwarf marked a high point in the Firesign's use of blue comedy: Porgie has explicit sex with a Negro housemaid as creaking bedsprings are heard.

The band was so excited that, according to Corabi, "At the end of each day we'd walk around the studio carrying our huge cocks in our hands because the music rocked so hard."

(via some dude)

I wish it was Carrabba instead of Corabi and he was talking about Dashboard Confessional.

In its first five days in 15 theaters in Utah, Idaho, Iowa and Nebraska it grossed $108,622.[4]

they were holding their dicks at Carraba’s.

From the entry on Disney's EPCOT, specifically the Evrettland, U.S.A. pavillion:

Other parts feature happy drawings of Donald Duck and T-shirts that feature Donald Duck says "Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLgCAWSv7w

the Magic Kingdom has a jokesy brown stream painted on the sidewalk in Frontierland which is meant to represent the rivers of shit that flowed prior to indoor plumbing

In the Gumball 3000 2007 rally, Xzibit drove a black Jaguar XJ220. During the first day of the rally, Dutch police seized his driver's license for doing 160 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. After the penalty, his co-driver, producer Fredwreck Nassar took over the wheel and they were allowed to continue.[17] In an interview with Dutch radio personality Reinout "Q-Bah" van Gendt,[18] Xzibit says that he mistook the kilometers for miles (100 mph = 160 km/h).

A number of incidents occurred during the construction and operation of the railway:

Multiple derailments.[4]
Train Ferry capsizing while traversing the first lock at Neptune's Staircase.
Widespread midge attack due to 49 billion more midges above normal near Lochaber[19]

Coming, to be fair, from an article whose entire premise is kind of an "unusual detail": The Biggest Little Railway in the World.

I can well believe that story midge attack story but how did they count the little bastards?

It has been described as a crackpot project to run a model train the length of the Great Glen Way by an army of madcap enthusiasts, geeks, and engineers in the best spirit of eccentric Britishness.

We finished watching the TV show last night... it was cute, and a nice document of the madcap enthusiasts and how they got along. But the mastermind guy, who I strongly suspect wrote most of the article, really started to get on our nerves.

The navvies found an efficient method of track construction at this site by getting quad bikes to drop bundles of track at the top of a slope allowing the navvy to simply join lengths of track at the top in a sitting position and gravity feed the track down the slope.

The song is an uptempo pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period. The surreal lyrics, composed by Siobhan Fahey and built upon by SAW and Bananarama members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, describes a dream in which they find themselves being tried in court for love. The musical structure could be compared to that of Pachelbel's Canon.

Additionally, while serving as stunt coordinator for Out for Justice, LeBell allegedly got into an on-set altercation with Seagal over his mistreatment of some of the film's stunt performers. After the actor claimed that, due to his aikido training, he was "immune" to being choked unconscious, LeBell offered Seagal the opportunity to prove it. LeBell is said to have placed his arms around Seagal's neck, and once Seagal said "go", proceeded to choke him unconscious, with Seagal losing control of his bowels.[99]

…an incident that was presciently immortalized in Robert Palmer’s only US number one hit:

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another kick is all you need

You like to think that you're immune to the stuff (oh yeah)
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough

Might as well fæces, you're aikidoed to love

vg+

from Frank Grillo's Wikipedia page:

Initially signed on to appear in seven Marvel Studios films, but had his contract abruptly terminated by the studio after the script for 'Captain America: Civil War' killed off his character of Brock Rumlow/Crossbones.

sorry i mean IMDB page!

I mean that's like......... just watching it all slip away

The group used the central theme in radio communication, which had become enhanced on their last tour of the United States.

not sure where to post impenetrable details in wikipedia articles. but this one has me staring at the screen wondering if i'm just reading it wrong.

although i guess there's every likelihood this section, being in the Kraftwerk page, might be by someone whose first language is German and not English. n/m.

She has been married twice, and dated Anton Fig and Paul Stanley in the 1980s.

I feel like we should start guessing these.... (although I have no idea who that could refer to)

He was able to sing in 21 different languages, including Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, French, medieval Spanish, Zulu, and English.

Topol?

Lol

Oh lol it was Theodore Bikel! I was in the neighborhood

The one I just posted was songwriter Holly Knight.

Grover filed his plans at the San Luis Obispo County Court House and eventually founded what was to be known as City of Grover City. There was a popular vote that allowed incorporating on December 21, 1959, as City of Grover City. However, the name seemed redundant so some people sought better names, especially ocean-oriented names. In 1992, there was another popular vote, in which the town's name was officially changed from "City of Grover City" to "Grover Beach" to emphasize the seaside location.[12]

Oh lol it was Theodore Bikel! I was in the neighborhood

Ha, I was gonna guess Theodore Bikel

The most notable sight of the evening was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau escorting starlet Kim Cattrall;[2] the moment received renewed media attention in March 2016, when the American newsmagazine 60 Minutes, in a profile of Justin Trudeau, ran a photo of the appearance while misidentifying Cattrall as Margaret Trudeau.

this account is basically the twitter equivalent of this thread:

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki

some good stuff like this:

adapt, evolve pic.twitter.com/UfwodQ9U1G

— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) March 29, 2022

I feel like I should start a poll

According to Billboard, the song is about sex.

Some same his nickname Muff was from all the Muff he got.

In 1978 he released an album, titled 2870, equivalent to an album of Pink Floyd. Which never happened in France and will never happen again.

haha WHAT

In 1978 he released an album, titled 2870, equivalent to an album of Pink Floyd. Which never happened in France and will never happen again.

― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:56 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still there then.

I can think of quite a lot of things that have not happened in France.

Hahah great minds think alike there, Tom D. (This is about French musician Gérard Manset.)

unusual wikipedia categories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_pregnancy_films

(currently watching Xtro)

wish they had subcategories there, be more helpful

British horror pregnancy
British comedy pregnancy

et al

The horror of British pregnancy

i am intrigued by The Pumpkin Eater. that's your first problem, lay off those pumpkins!

It’s meant to be good! The book at least, I think film too