This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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]

On January 1, 2007, West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers[72] in Dorset, England, began the one-year live streaming of a round of Westcombe Dairy cheddar maturing on their shelf.[73][74][75]

This is my favorite thread.

Zeki Müren never married. In the 1950s, with his special patterns of behavior, dressing and his performance on stage, he managed to keep people constantly interested in himself. In the early years of his career, he chose to wear ordinary clothes and hair styles, but later showed a favor for feminine-styled clothes, and performed with new hair styles and make-up. He never commented on his sexual orientation and occasionally his name appeared alongside that of women.[13] The general opinion was that he was gay.[14][15]

[15] Shidfar, Farhad (2005). "Gay musicians in Turkey". International Forum of Psychoanalysis, vol. 14(3–4) 224–226, Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

That one got a genuine laugh out loud from me, the juxtaposition of text and footnote.

The general opinion was that he was gay.[14][15]

Nah, don't believe it.

https://www.artkolik.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/zeki-mu%CC%88ren.jpg

[William] Hartston was the first of three British chess champions to be married to Woman Grandmaster Jana Bellin (née Malypetrova) (January 1970 in Cambridge).

Nah, don't believe it.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, July 8, 2024 1:27 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

jesus christ, isn't there some thread about celebs from the past you _totally_ would've gotten with? this guy's on the list. wowwwwwww.

i don't know if it's on wikipedia but i'm very impressed by Louisa Jo Killen having been one of the Clancy Brothers, despite not technically being qualified in two distinct ways.

old to semi-old celebrities you would travel back in time to have lots of sex with.

That photo looks like if Tony Curtis had played the Marilyn Monroe part in Some Like It Hot

The influence of Chicago's jazz scene and the experience of the "New Negro Renaissance" is reflected in all his early work.

It begins with the short story "Eventide" printed first in the private collection Don't Call Me by My Right Name and then commercially in the collection Color of Darkness (Teeboy who would never be coming home again, played the tenor saxophone at The Music Box and had his hair made straight)

In 1889, for example, pitcher Pud Galvin became the first baseball player to be widely known for his use of performance-enhancing substances.[6] Galvin was a user and vocal proponent of the Brown-Séquard Elixir, a testosterone supplement derived from the testicles of live animals such as dogs and guinea pigs.[6]

you know

i wish i coulda sold my testicles to someone like pud galvin who thought that the voronoff technique would improve his performance

just the thought of like

some dude walking around with my balls buried in his sack

That was the plot of an episode of Tim And Eric’s Nightmares!

In the 1960s, Kowalski claimed to be the only vegetarian professional wrestler.[6]

The vinyl record inside was wrapped in a pair of panties, though this was later discontinued as the paper panties were found to be flammable.[7]

Muck's catchphrases are "Muck to the rescue!" and "Let's get mucky!" in the original series and "Oh, wow! I'd love to join in!" in the reboot series.

He was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back, which was incompletely formed and surgically removed.

Trump or Biden?

_He was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back, which was incompletely formed and surgically removed._

Lmao

They appeared on the show to discuss Bregoli's behavior, which included stealing a crew member's car while the episode was being filmed

There were arguments between Moby and V2 over the use of vocal samples on 18, and V2 and Mute believed that a follow-up album that sounded like Play was going to attract criticism.[3]

When your record seems so commercially-hungry that even your labels want you to reconsider

On Saturday, October 29, 1994, Duran, on the sidewalk outside the White House grounds, shot at a tourist inside the White House gates whose haircut resembled President Clinton's.

Needed to better view to a kill

a better

The press release was a hoax; Ferrell had never been paragliding.[156]

In 1969, Arizonan lawyer Russel T. Tansie filed a suit against God on behalf of his secretary, Betty Penrose, seeking $100,000 in damages. Penrose blamed God for his "negligence" in allowing a lightning bolt to strike her house.[1] The lawsuit was placed under the argument that God owned property in Sonoma County, due to the Limeliters singer Lou Gottlieb transferring the deed of his Morning Star Ranch to God about a week before. The deed was ruled invalid, due to God not being able to take possession of the property, and hence Penrose's lawsuit was also ruled invalid.[2]

In the early 2000s, Suwon City Council strove to improve the condition of its public lavatories, and afterwards ran guided tours of the municipal facilities.[153][154] Suwon has hosted several international conferences on toilet management,[155] and the World Toilet Association is based in the city.[156]

Prince finally waved the Weenie

https://i.imgur.com/XHjiMnG.png

In 1970, Hagar returned to Fontana with his wife and new baby, pursuing a career in music full-time. While in Fontana, he claims he was visited by "a ship and two creatures inside of this ship" while he lay in bed one night. "And they were connected to me, tapped into my mind through some kind of mysterious wireless connection", he said of the experience, adding "I was kind of waking up. They said, in their communication to each other, no words spoke, 'Oh, he's waking up. We've got to go.' They fired off a numerical code, but it was not of our numerical system. All of a sudden, pow, the connection instantly broke."