This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

is this the origin story of OU812

There must be some explanation for it.

Oh my god i just got it

The song's music video follows the message of the lyrics, featuring a girl investigating her high school peers while they are frozen in time, and she eventually decides to be herself.[1]

That same year and under his father and his close friend Alejandro Jodorowsky's tutelage, Fernando learns "the art of silence" mime techniques. In 1979 he is selected to represent Mexico at the First International Mime Gathering during the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico, becoming the first Mexican Mime to receive an international recognition by winning first prize beating the French, Italian and Canadian teams.

Fernández is rumored to be the model for the Oscar statuette, but this is not confirmed. The legend suggested that MGM art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Motion Picture Academy members tasked with creating the Academy Award trophy, was introduced to Fernández by actress Dolores del Río and persuaded him to pose nude.

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18th-century French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, noted as an early wife guy, with his spouse Marie-Anne

Allmovie gave the film a mixed review, writing "this graphic Grecian proto-slasher is one of the most perverse exploitation films released to the public, a laundry list of outrages that will cause the viewer to wonder what kind of mind could conceive such a monstrosity."[3]

allmovie did indeed go on to give the film two stars.

The theme of mercy is omnipresent in the work, focusing on the three people considered most "based": the woman, the child and the old man who embodies the image of Mercy..

Two of the creators of the US television series The Wizard, Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz, went on to produce the lifeguard drama Baywatch. In this show's fifth season is an episode entitled "Short Sighted" which originally aired on 31 October 1994. Part of this episode concerns junior lifeguard Carter McKay (Nicholas Banko), whose father Simon McKay (Ed Gale) is a namesake tribute to Rappaport's character on The Wizard.[6][7]

really, the entire wiki article on david rappaport is just pure gold. fantastic.

In Our Man Flint (1966), the character Derek Flint wears a turban and shouts "Kali!" while shooting a gun into the air in order to safely empty a club of its patrons before setting off an explosive.[89]

While the Jimmy character regularly voices both sides of his imaginary interview on the Terry Wogan show, Wogan does not appear, and Sir Terry was reportedly not a fan of the film.

Luís Henriques de Barros Lopes[2] (born 16 February 2000), commonly known as Duk, is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Premiership side Aberdeen. Born in Portugal, he represents Cape Verde at international level. Has been missing from Aberdeen FC’s pre-season for the 2024-25 season. Took the huff and downed tools because he feels he is due a move, despite the fact he has been awful for months. Overweight, looks like he is towing a caravan. Any club would be daft to sign him. May he rot!

The guitar once was submerged in water for three months and was more mellow in sound compared to the classic hard Stratocaster sound.

Critical reception for the film since its release in 1969 has been mostly positive, and Bleeding Cool has compared it to a Ray Dennis Steckler film with lower production values.[6][7]

"mostly positive"

The guitar once was submerged in water for three months

Buddy Holly?

the unified critical consensus of Bleeding Cool

xp chris rea!

Each episode was broadcast between 12 and 19 times from 1982 to 1991, with the exception of episode 83/9 "The Big Heater" which was only broadcast three times between 1982 and 1983.

During Faith No More's concert at the 2009 Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary, Patton swallowed a shoelace from a shoe thrown at the stage, before loudly regurgitating it and throwing it back to the public.

A complaint made by reviewers is that despite the title I Eat Your Skin, no skin is eaten during the film.[3][5][16][17][18][19]

Despite suggestions to the contrary, Jorvik Viking Centre (York) staff have confirmed that it is not Sean Bean who completes the commentary on their trains, but Hawley.

Sean Bean: been bein' a being since 1959

In a 1994 interview with Modern Drummer Magazine, the band's drummer, Neil Peart, said about the song: "I used a basic R&B rhythm that I played back in my early days, coupled with that hypnotic effect that a lot of the British bands of the turn of the '90s had – bands like Curve and Lush. The middle section of the tune is the result of the impact African music has had on me, although it wasn't a specific African rhythm."

I Eat Your Skin (But Not Necessarily Within the Diegetic Action of the Film)

Halloween 1977 proved a pivotal night in her early, spandexed stage persona.

Upon resolving the dispute, LWT suffered poor rating figures, as the station's evening viewing schedule included a Stravinsky musical drama, an avant-garde drama from French film director Jean-Luc Godard, a tribute to Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, and Georgia Brown Sings Kurt Weill. As a consequence, viewers deserted its primetime offerings in favour of the more mainstream Saturday night viewing on BBC1.

Jeez the Golden Age of commercial television!

I'm cheating, as this one's from Genius but still:

“The Blood” was inspired by a Portuguese wine named “Tears Of Christ” (Smith changed it to “blood of Christ” using “poetic license”).
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The song was released as a promotional single in Spain only. It did not chart there.

64 Spoons released one single during their lifetime, "Ladies Don’t Have Willies". This is now a collector's item.

Her three cats were euthanized after her death and cremated so that their ashes could be mixed with hers.

*Alain Delon stares on in envy*

xp searched for who that is and wow is there anyone connected to Cream who is not utterly cursed?

Upon resolving the dispute, LWT suffered poor rating figures, as the station's evening viewing schedule included a Stravinsky musical drama, an avant-garde drama from French film director Jean-Luc Godard, a tribute to Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, and Georgia Brown Sings Kurt Weill. As a consequence, viewers deserted its primetime offerings in favour of the more mainstream Saturday night viewing on BBC1.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Monday, 19 August 2024 15:47 (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ah yes, period of struggle for ITV stations my beloved. This wasn't the final one to launch with niche and/or hard-hitting aspirations that drew no one in, necessitating the hiring of an Australian media mogul to completely transform the station into a lowbrow success that spat in the eye of the original vision, either.

Davis was described as having an "addiction and a mad obsession to sex", and "constantly fantasizing" about women, and claimed to be a "porn movie specialist".[5]

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At the time, some said Korn was "indecent, vulgar, obscene, and intends to be insulting".[8] Fans wearing the band's characteristic style of clothing with the "Korn" logo printed T-shirts were considered "not different than a person wearing a middle finger on their T-shirt".[8]

While the terminology "nu metal" appeared shortly after 1998, Korn and Adidas had pushed the boundaries of the metal code; Davis later stated, "our attitude has always been punk rock".[6]

Chris Osgood, singer-guitarist of the Suicide Commandos, described the Longhorn as "like CBGB in that it was a long bar with a low ceiling and the band was up on a riser at one end of the room. It had been a Nino's Steakhouse before it turned into a bar, so it was not a dump."[5]

The bar was later sold to Hartley Frank, who, in 1980, changed it to Zoogie's, a pizzeria and nightclub.[7] The location is now a storage facility for Xcel Energy.[16]

On Scottish tonic wine Buckfast:

A diet of four bottles a day has been described in a Scottish court as 'not conducive to a long life'.[15]

Corgan's mantra for the album's rhythm parts was "Shuffle!", which Jimmy Chamberlin resisted, but which eventually resulted in two songs on the albums with shuffle beats.[18]

On Scottish tonic wine Buckfast

Scottish?!

One of Devon's finest products!

... now made in Ireland!

Corgan's mantra for the album's rhythm parts was "Shuffle!", which Jimmy Chamberlin resisted, but which eventually resulted in two songs on the albums with shuffle beats.[18]

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 11:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I love this so much, it's exactly the dynamic of a Pumpkins recording session that I imagine and have probably read about countless times, with such an incongruous musical direction from Billy for the kind of music they play. It's like the real life "more cowbell"

cracking up at the image of Billy screaming "shuffle!" at Jimmy as he drums

After the production moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, Jan-Michael Vincent became drunk, and insulted the local Native American residents, who in turn "befriended" him and gave him peyote, which caused a three-day delay in filming when Vincent became intoxicated, and could not be found.[4]

I went to Buckfast Abbey aged ~13 and my dad picked up a bottle of the wine, which he mostly did not drink over the next few years, and I secretly snaffled & watered down. Think it gave me a taste for fortified wines later in life, but port & sherry, not Buckfast.

can i just say how much i love those wikipedia pages that have comprehensive plot summaries of utterly unhinged 1970s made for tv movies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash-Up_on_Interstate_5

43 hours before the accident, Erica meets with her colleague Trudy (Terry Moore) at a sleazy bar, where she is introduced to a free-spirited life style. She is picked up by a doctor, Danny (Herb Edelman), but leaves the bar without him, despite his attempts to flirt with her. Meanwhile, Penny and Pete rob a gas station, and a gunfight leaves Pete injured, and the gas station owner shot. Seventeen hours later, they steal a car and force the owner, Lee Bassett, to drive under gunpoint. Nearby, Sergeant Marcum holds a truck for speeding, driven by Randy (Barry Hamilton), and issues a warning to the owner, who is in the back having intercourse with a woman (Cindy Daly).

"hey let's make 12 uninteresting, cliched films at once and maybe they won't notice they're uninteresting and cliched. also let's throw a car crash in there"

peak 1970s tv movie

The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the date of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence

Citation needed. They don't get July 4 off in Californny?

Scottish?!
One of Devon's finest products!

Duly noted! However, at least according to wikipedia, it appears to have left its greatest path of destruction north of the border

There is a Ted Leo song about it

The three grand soups of the world (世界三大スープ sekai sandai sūpu) is a common term in Japan referring to three types of soup thought to be the best in the world.[1][2][3] The origin of this term is unknown, though it was already in use by the 1980s.[4] Notwithstanding the term, there are four soups referred to as "three grand soups." This is because borscht and tom yam kung are considered to be tied for 3rd place.[5]