This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Beginning at 2,500 feet (760 m) AGL, Holland's aircraft executed the circle at 65° of bank. In a maneuver described by one witness as a "death spiral", the nose of the aircraft continued to drop and the bank angle increased to 80°. After losing 1,000 feet (300 m) of altitude, Holland regained control of the aircraft. Holland also regularly and illegally parked his car in a "no parking" zone near the base headquarters building.[2][10]

lol

Phil Collins – drums (1 from 3:32)
Manu Katché – drums (1 until 3:32, 2, 5)

The band was eventually asked to leave the tour for a week due to unruly behavior of Sublime guests and Lou Dog biting four different individuals.[11]

She was a backing singer with Talulah Gosh and has reviewed a book for Marie Claire.[2]

His other proposals included banning dogs from restaurants and making it illegal for people with shoe sizes above 13 to walk on the street.

Lotito holds the record for the 'strangest diet' in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.

Hell yeah

Another version, which was described as "Fish Bowl", includes a standard 3 rounds. Players are split into two teams. All players contribute 3–5 words containing common phrases, celebrities, or nouns. All word cards are added to a vessel resembling a fish bowl (hence the name). During a turn, one player from Team A takes one word card out of the bowl and engages in the rules of the round until a team member guesses the word. The player then draws another word, and continues until 30 seconds to 1 minute has elapsed. One Team B player follows Team A. A round continues until all words have been guessed. All words are returned to the fish bowl, and the next round beings. Round One consists of Catch Phrase (game), where players can use unlimited words to give clues (except words that rhyme). Round 2 follows the rules of Charades. Round 3 follows the words of password, where the clue giver can only give a one-word clue. Round 4, the sheet round, was created by Dr. Joan Meiners in a living room in Logan, Utah, during a standard game of fish bowl. During the sheet round, players repeat the rules of charades with a bed sheet covering their body.

Been playing 'Connections'? lol

haha had the same thought. never heard of this one til then.

He died at Toledo in 690 of natural causes. Julian's memorial is held March 8.

He is commemorated by way of a portrait in the cathedral of Toledo. JT's Cocktail Bar and Club in Oxford is named in his honour.

Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred in Eggers' directorial debut The Witch, was eager to work with him again and asked if she could play the mermaid. Eggers replied that there was not a role for her and she "really should not be this particular mermaid". Taylor-Joy then jokingly suggested that she could play a seagull instead.[14]

In the mid-1930s, (Audrey) Hepburn's parents recruited and collected donations for the British Union of Fascists (B.U.F).[22] Her mother met Adolf Hitler and wrote favourable articles about him for the B.U.F.[23]

BBC Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules liked the track so much that he played it for four weeks in a row on his show. When he found out that it was a 2 Unlimited single, he no longer supported the track.[citation needed]

excellent

This is wild:

Once in the RAF he went through flying training. He was the penultimate man going through a medical line receiving inoculations for typhoid with the other flight candidates in his class (they were going to Canada to receive new aircraft) when the vaccine ran out. They refilled the bottle to inoculate him and the other man as well. By mistake they loaded a pure culture of typhoid. The other man died immediately, and Bentine was in a coma for six weeks. When he regained consciousness his eyesight was ruined, leaving him myopic for the rest of his life.

holy shit

that Wikipedia page is full of stuff: concentration camps, hovercraft, air crashes, parapsychology...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bentine

there're Potty Time episodes on YouTube as well if you want to see the crap we were subjected on tv as kids (the bits i remember are more the flea circus bits, which is a different show which i can't find)

In 2007, O'Neal was arrested for shooting at Griffin, which he claimed was in self-defense; the charges were dropped.[57] O'Neal refused to allow Griffin to attend Fawcett's funeral in 2009.[58] He infamously hit on Tatum at Fawcett's funeral, not recognizing her as his daughter.

Onetime Elevator/French Toast drummer and former Fugazi roadie Jerry Busher plays a pocket trumpet on The Evens' song "Competing With The Till", which is on The Evens' The Odds album.[citation needed]

"former fugazi roadie". well _that_ sure meets notability guidelines.

Demographics

Although the series suffered in the Nielsen ratings throughout most of its four-year run, it had a strong following among teens, young adults, and disc jockeys.

(WKRP)

Well, yeah

Johnny Carson objected to his original role, which depicted him as a mooch, so the writers instead made him extremely versatile.

Dennis Hopper, who played the addled cook, was performing knife tricks with a real knife on the set. Sally Kirkland attempted to take a knife from him, and severed a tendon. She spent time in a hospital and later sued, claiming Hopper was out of control. Hopper has admitted to drug abuse during this time period.[1]

it's that last line

love that last line

Hopper has admitted to being sober once or twice during time period.

The focus on auto-erotic asphyxiation, including two deaths in the episode, has meant that this is the only episode in the series to be given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification.[3]

well at least we finally learned how Bluey got her name

A study was carried out in 2015 to show the effectiveness of different shot types, including slam dunks. The study was carried out across five different levels of basketball (NBA, EuroBasket, the Slovenian 1st Division, and two minor leagues). Overall the study showed that slam dunks were a very effective way of scoring in the game of basketball, particularly in the NBA, which had the highest dunk percentage in the study.[4]

it is noted ILH lore that the dunk shot is the best shot

Another aspect of the arcade version of the game was that when one inserted a quarter into the game, the game would play a sound file that said "You will die!"

Tauzin endorsed Jerome Schneider's book The Complete Guide to Offshore Money Havens by dubbing the book, "A serious contender for the best book on offshore banking I've ever seen."[12] Tauzin also spoke at one of Schneider's tax conferences.[13] After Schneider pleaded guilty in 2004 to assisting hundreds of people to avoid taxes through sham offshore banks,[13][14] a spokesperson for Tauzin called his endorsement "a stupid mistake."[13]

During his time as a footballer, Charisteas was known to play the Bouzouki in his spare time.

Over the years she has developed a loyal following based on her passionate, soulful vocals and intense stage presence.[citation needed]

In August 1986, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for violating the civil rights of his victims, and Wahlberg and his friends were issued a civil rights injunction which served as a warning that they would be jailed if they committed another hate crime.[15][16][17][18]

'no seriously, the next hate crime, there will be consequences'

List is missing 1967 comedy starring Sid Cesar, “The Spirit Is Willing” which has its own wikipedia page. Ghosts are the stars of this ribald romp in sunny Cape Cod.

Hester dropped out on day three after a bout of gastroenteritis and after Skelton accidentally kicked his toenail off.

The series tells the same story as the film, but contains nudity and additional character development.[3]

In his book What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History, author David Hofstede ranked the movie at #90 on the list.[1]

It has also been noted as one of professional wrestling manager Jim Cornette's favorite movies.

The Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack thread, and the Alfred's mention of who wrote "The Heat Is On", led me to this:

Like Moroder, Forsey started producing albums himself, and in 1982 produced Billy Idol's solo debut album, Billy Idol and Icehouse's global breakthrough album Primitive Man. Idol's 1983 follow-up, Rebel Yell, went even further, combining Forsey's affection for synthesized pop, Idol's punk grit, and guitarist Steve Stevens' heavy metal sound.[3] 1983 was the year that established Forsey as a producer. He co-wrote "Flashdance... What a Feeling" with Moroder and Irene Cara, who sang the track, for the movie Flashdance. In 1984, the song earned an Academy Award. The popularity of Flashdance led to his co-writing songs featured on the soundtracks of Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, The NeverEnding Story and The Breakfast Club. The 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from The Breakfast Club was originally offered to Simple Minds, who declined. After Bryan Ferry, Billy Idol and several other artists passed on the song, Simple Minds reconsidered; their recording went on to top the charts in several countries.

And wild that he basically didn't produce much more after that.

....that's so strange!
...I just heard Dontyouforgetaboutme out in the wild recently and was thinking it sounded kind of like Billy Idol...

Ha, now I can't stop picturing Bryan Ferry singing it.

The "Chicken Dance", also known and recorded as Der Ententanz, Tchip Tchip, Vogerltanz, the Bird Song, the Chicken Song, the Birdie Song, the Bird Dance, Danse des Canards, the Duck Dance, El Baile de los Pajaritos, O Baile dos Passarinhos, Il Ballo del Qua Qua, Check Out the Chicken, or Dance Little Bird, is an oom-pah song; its associated fad dance has become familiar throughout the Western world. The song was composed by accordion player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland, in the 1950s.

In 1982, the music producer for the Milwaukee-based organist and polka composer Bob Kames first heard "Dance Little Bird" at a German music fair.[6] The producer sent Kames a copy, and Kames recorded his own version on the Hammond organ, as "Dance Little Bird" or "The Chicken Dance" [6] and released it that same year.[7] The Kames recording hit solid gold when it was released in 1983 in Poland, selling 300,000 copies.[6] Kames received 2 of the 35 cents from each sale.[6] Since he could not take the money out of the country, he donated all of it to for a relief fund.[6] The success of the song stunned Kames. He commented in a 1995 interview, "This stupid little thing, it's infectious. It has only two chords, it doesn't even change for the bridge. It implants the melody in people's minds—it just sticks in there. That's gotta be the secret...It just keeps on going. People come up to me at jobs and tell me how happy it makes them. You get a song like this once in a lifetime."[6]

He joined the rodeo, billed as Slim Pickens, and eventually became a well-known rodeo clown. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. Reportedly when the recruiter asked him his profession, he responded "rodeo". This was misread on a form as "radio", and he spent his entire enlistment at a radio station in the Midwestern United States.[3]

Noddy Holder of Slade

Railway views

In December 2021, Holder criticised the high-speed railway line High Speed 2 and claimed that more trains should be added to the West Coast Main Line and update the West to East coast lines instead. The northern extensions have since been cancelled.[61]

The Power of Slade.

Gudbuy T’HS2

Why doesn't every Wikipedia biographical article have a "Railway views" section?

Take Me Bak 'Ome (via Crewe with minor delays due to lack of rolling stock)

I enjoyed the progression of events

He decided to enroll in a graduate program at Columbia in genetics because he felt that, since he had been a music major, the alternative would probably be working at McDonald's; he later discovered he had a natural interest in statistical genetics.[5] He went on to receive his Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1993.[6] He then received a Hitchings-Elion Fellowship from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, which he spent working with Mark Lathrop at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford.[5] In July 2013, he began teaching a human evolutionary genetics class at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) in North Korea.[1] He still teaches at PUST as of October 2017.[7] He has an Erdős–Bacon number of 6, having appeared in Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang.[8] He also sang additional vocals on the 2020 album Killection by Finnish heavy metal band Lordi.[9]