This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

The siege was captured by Pathé News cameras—one of their earliest stories and the first siege to be captured on film—and it included footage of Churchill.[15][106] When the newsreels were screened in cinemas, Churchill was booed with shouts of "shoot him" from audiences.[126]

... and here is the footage by the way, serial attention seeker Churchill shows up about 90 seconds in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wPKpAVDGE

"Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (née MacFarlane, 25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735."

In 1944! Albeit for "fraudulent spiritual activity," which is both ironic and pretty uncool.

The 'fraudulent use of cheesecloth' event for which Duncan was imprisoned happened not far from me in the Copnor district of Portsmouth. It is mentioned in the lyrics of The Fall's Psykick Dancehall #2.

no bedknobs & broomsticks spoilers pls

Here's a meta-weird one. On Thanksgiving we played some trivia game where the clue was something like "Alabama resident bla bla became the first person to do what while she was sleeping on her couch in 1954," or something like that. The answer was she was the first person to be hit by a meteorite.

Wiki:

At 12:46 PM (CST) on November 30, 1954, a meteorite fell through the skies of Sylacauga, Alabama. It split into at least three fragments, with one of the fragments falling through a roof and then landing on Hodges, who was napping on her couch.

So we just happened to get a random trivia question almost exactly 70 years to the day after its point of trivia happened!

The lawsuit was initiated after Ross was informed by a friend playing slots at a casino of a "Happy Days" machine on which players win the jackpot when five Marion Rosses are rolled.[8]

Finding cracks in the metal coating required diving into the pool, which was out of the question due to the gamma radiation levels in the vicinity of the nuclear waste drums reaching 17,000 R/h. An attempt to eliminate the leak was made by pouring in 20 sacks of flour, thus filling the cracks with dough. However, the leak continued, and the service personnel discovered icing on the right side of the building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown_Jets

Honours and records
...
Career records

Most tries
109 – Ray Preston

Most points
1,001 – Ken Wilson (25T, 447G, 28FG)

Most murder convictions
1 – Chris Dawson

Her dates, most of whom are never seen, shower her with expensive gifts, allowing her to live in a huge penthouse apartment with a piano and a doorbell that plays the song "Fly Me to the Moon" (in the original network run) or "Beautiful Dreamer" (in subsequent syndication and the original Fox Season 1 DVD release.[2] Shout! Factory restored the original doorbell chime for their subsequent DVD releases.[3])

A pilot for a show called Dude, This Sucks was cancelled after teens attending a taping at the Snow Summit Ski Resort in January 2001 were sprayed with liquidized fecal matter by a group known as "The Shower Rangers". The teens later sued, with MTV later apologizing and ordering the segment's removal.

ok i am cheating here since this actually comes from knowyourmeme

This multi-layered structure in the Yo Dawg formula makes it reminiscent of the "strange loops" described in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.

In 2014, during an interview on Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, screenwriters Alexander and Karaszewski revealed that the studio was reluctant to rehire them, only doing so because they wanted to shoot a sequel before Michael Oliver could noticeably grow and, as the writers of the first film, could produce a script quicker than writers new to the story and characters.[3]

Frustrated with the criticisms of the first film, they deliberately increased the poor taste, intending to make a Pasolini or John Waters film for children, and went so far overboard that the first cut received an R rating from the MPAA, a secret kept until their 2014 appearance on the podcast. Dubbing over Junior's use of the term "pussy-whipped" got a PG-13 on appeal, but the studio was still so nervous that, at the last minute, they added the 1947 Woody Woodpecker cartoon Smoked Hams to its theatrical run, to reassure parents that it was suitable for children.[3]

ha the original Problem Child is one of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater in my life and even at age 8 I remember being able to pick up on it being cynical and mean-spirited, even if I didn't have that language to describe it. Will have to see #2 someday, get my "Pasolini for children" on

sadly they kinda sanded off the rough edges to get a PG-13, all I remember is there being a dog and the running joke being that it takes gigantic shits bigger than Junior, including at the wedding at the end.

behind the scenes weirdness-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rayner_Goddard,_Baron_Goddard

In 2017, Montgomery and Tim Batt recorded a pilot episode of a The Worst Idea of All Time TV series for YouTube Red, in which they spent five days in a New York City sewer watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. The show was never ordered to series.

:(

were they allowed to leave the sewer?

From the Wikipedia entry for Bobby Farrell of Boney M:

He died on the morning of 30 December 2010, in a hotel room in St. Petersburg, Russia, of heart failure... Coincidentally, he died on the same date and in the same city as Grigori Rasputin, the subject of one of his group's most iconic songs and whom he had dressed as in some live performances.

lol

Nono promised to send drafts and sketches to Kremer so he could practice and learn the piece during the summer of 1988. Kremer, however, received no score until two days before the premiere, on August 31, when Kremer decided to travel to Berlin to meet Nono in person. Upon meeting, Kremer could listen to the tapes but only have a gander at a few fragments in some scraps of paper.

La Romareda boasts the bizarre claim to have Europe's deepest goal nets, which stretch back four metres. The nets also have a striking blue and white diagonal stripe design.

The film is littered with darkly comedic deaths and injuries. It also contains the notorious "severed privates" scene where a group of homeless people play catch with the severed genitals of one of their number, as he futilely attempts to recover it.

The Korpela movement, or Siikavaara sect, was a religious sect started by Laestadian preacher Toivo Korpela in Sweden during the 1920s. It saw its decline later during the next decade as its practices involved heavy drinking and unconventional sexual activities toward the end of its existence, which subsequently led to the conviction of 60 of its followers.

He was survived by his second wife, Judith Kamman Kliban (who married actor Bill Bixby shortly before Bixby's death in 1993)

Actress Patsy Kelly’s favorite foods:

She was known to have an affinity for sauces. She was also fond of mashed potatoes. "Mash them; and if I were a man, I'd marry you any time." On Sundays, she would entertain guests and serve chicken, turkey or roast beef. She was also wild about sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows. "They taste like a million dollars," proclaimed Kelly.

sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows

Can't stand 'em... what a destructive preparation

Professor Paul Ilegems, curator of the Frietmuseum in Bruges, Belgium, believes that Saint Teresa of Ávila of Spain cooked the first french fries

He was raised Lutheran, but ceased practicing as soon as his parents approved his request to do so.[citation needed]

From the David Berkowitz page

The "Wicked King Wicker" reference caused police to arrange a private screening of The Wicker Man, a 1973 horror movie.[68]

Infobox format:

Filmed by Various news outlets

Outcome At least one person present developed depression as a result.[74] Dwyer's conviction not expunged.

Deaths 1 (Dwyer)

Property damage Bullet hole in wall

Seeing as the original title was rather controversial, the film has been released under several different names, the most notable being A Fistful of Feathers.

I've hit a rich vein here...

Trikonis was married to actress Goldie Hawn from 1969 to 1976; he was her first husband and they have the same birthday.

Man, this Gus Trikonis Wiki rabbit hole I've fallen into is just the gift that keeps on giving...

William Smith later recalled "Jesus Christ, that was a wild fuckin’ movie! (Laughing) Yeah, that was kind of fun."

It never ends!

Roger Corman says the film was very popular in the South and also in Europe, which surprised him.

One more?

Maureen McCormick recalled drug use was rife on set, writing in her memoirs that "Our crew was more like a pharmaceutical convention than a movie. Aside from John Saxon, Susan Howard, and a few other straight arrows, I could barely go thirty minutes without someone asking if I wanted a bump." She and Claudia Jennings became close friends on the film and Jennings had an affair with Gary Graver.

And I think I'll just stop here.

The Evil was released theatrically in the spring of 1978, with screenings beginning on March 8 in San Francisco.(a)

[ . . . ]

a. Several newspaper advertisements note the film as "starting today" on Wednesday, March 8, 1978.[6]

Thank you crypto!

As an avid collector, he has a collection of over 1,000 film noir films from around the world[35] and a huge collection of condoms acquired while touring worldwide with Devo.

Just seen this classic again

McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publicly mention the incident until months later, commenting that "I didn’t want my Wikipedia page to say, 'And he got bitten by a rabid fox'".

On Ahmed Hassanein:

In December 1922, Hassanein began a new scientific expedition from Sallum. He recorded bearings and measures of distances, took photos of those not the correct age, took samples of life juice, wrote his journal, and interacted with his naughty men.

And he died by being hit by a lorry!

And he fenced in the Olympics!

I want to know more about the life juices and naughty men (possibly connected?)

Throughout his life, Crean remained an extremely modest man. When he returned to Kerry, he put all of his medals away and never again spoke about his experiences in the Antarctic. There is no reliable evidence of Crean giving any interviews to the press.[69] Smith speculates that this may have been because Kerry was a hotbed of Irish nationalism and later Irish republicanism, and, along with County Cork, a centre of violence.[69] The Crean family were once subject to a Black and Tan raid during the Irish War of Independence. Their inn was ransacked until the raiders happened across Crean's framed photo in Royal Navy dress uniform and medals. They then left his inn.

only unusual to me because I didn't realise he was from Kerry, the tough as nails looking guy from the iconic photo of him holding some husky pups while smoking a pipe at some Antarctic base. He's from Kerry?? More for the things you only just discovered thread, really.

Harris covered Neil Young's song "Wrecking Ball", and the track includes harmonies by Young.[12] Although the song was released by Harris as a 2-track CD single with Lucinda Williams' "Sweet Old World", one reviewer did not consider the title track the high point on the album.

one reviewer?!?!

In their early days the group would perform barefoot, which was later given up mainly after several injuries from remains of broken glass on stages.[3]

Yellow is a sentimental ballad, trap, alternative pop, sophisti-pop, shoegaze, rock, synth-pop and folk album.[8]

Android Apocalypse was a television film produced for the Sci-Fi Channel. It was first aired on the 24th of June, 2006. Previously viewed DVD copies have been available at some Dollar Tree stores.

They should have said which Dollar Tree stores. Useless!