This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Dachshunds come in three sizes: standard, miniature,[8] and Ugly, which means Sarah. Although the standard and miniature sizes are recognized almost universally, the rabbit size is considerably identical to the rear end of a mule, and is not recognized as a member of society, but as an outcasted freak.

"Leader of the Band" is a song written by Dan Fogelberg from his 1981 album The Innocent Age.
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It was used in a montage at the end of the 1985 CART season, in tribute to the Unser racing family. Due in part to editing advancements achieved prior to 1985, this montage is thought to be the single, greatest, monolithic moment in recorded history.

hahaha

Mitchell, who is Jewish, was reported in People magazine as saying that he wanted to be the first Jewish President of the United States.[1]

(this is Sasha Mitchell, best known for playing "Cody" in the 90's ABC sitcom "Step By Step")

Although considered cold-sensitive, marjoram can sometimes prove hardy even in zone 5.

Didn't know horticulture was so tough in the outskirts of London.

: )

http://www.thegardengeeks.com/home/images/stories/hardiness_map607x302.jpg

that looks like a tie dye!

From the wiki for the Chateau Marmont Hotel, which has a rather lengthy list of all the celebs who have lived/partied/died/overdosed there. This last one, however, seems a tad trivial by comparison:

The hotel was the site where actress Milla Jovovich said she was going to begin shooting the fourth installment of the popular Resident Evil film series at the end of 2009.

Makes sense:

Siamese Dream is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993 on Virgin Records. The album fused diverse influences such as shoegazing, Male Pattern Baldness, dream pop, classic heavy metal, and progressive rock.

haha ned you did that didnt you

Richard Lloyd (born 25 October 1951, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, probably best-known as a former member of the rock band, Television and as one of rock's true weirdos.

now probably best known for having Little Pete from the adventures of pete and pete as his bassist imo?

haha ned you did that didnt you

Swear to god, found it as it stood!

Sugar cookies were viewed as having magical powers in rural Idaho in the early 20th century. They reportedly could make potatoes grow "tastier" if planted with them.

That fills me with joy!

OPh my gosh and it has a citation.

didn't want this to get lost on ITR, the whole thing is a goldmine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident

Miyoke Yasutarō had heard that a man named Yamamoto Heikichi was an expert bear hunter, and so paid a visit to his house. Yamamoto, after hearing the account, was certain that the bear was "Kesagake" (袈裟懸け?) or "the diagonal slash from the shoulder", which had previously been blamed for the mauling and deaths of three women. But by this time, Yamamoto had pawned off his gun for money to buy alcohol, and refused Miyoke's request for aid.

At the Ōta house, it killed and ate a chicken, searched for food, and tore apart clothes and bedding. Curiously, it seemed abnormally interested in the pillow which the woman used. Except for Yamamoto nobody could understand why the bear showed such a fetishistic interest. But only Yamamoto knew the bear's extraordinary proclivity, he was convinced that the bear in this case was "Kesagake".

Due to its newly-found taste for human flesh, Kesagake now seemed to lack prudence.

Ōkawa Haruyoshi, who was seven years old and the son of the Sankebetsu village mayor at the time of the incident, grew up to become an excellent bear hunter. He became a hunter because he swore an oath to kill ten bears for every victim of the attack. By the time he reached the age of 62, he had killed 102 bears, He then retired and constructed the bear harm cenotaph (熊害慰霊碑, Yūgai Ireihi?), a shrine where people can pray for the dead villagers.

I love how Big Boi's entry has a whole big section marked "Multidisciplinary collaborations" just for 3 sentences abotu that ballet he did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Boi

From the entry on Vauxhall Station.

'Vauxhall is the only London tube station which does not contain any
letters of the word "omnipresent".'

Who, I mean how, I mean why....

LOL, the article for SFMTA (a really boring article that is mostly a list of board members etc.) has a trivia section! With fun facts such as these:

Trivia:
MTA Board member Shirley Breyer Black is the only member of the initial MTA Board in 2000 still serving on the board.
MTA Board member Shirley Breyer Black is the aunt of United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Muni's Flynn Division is named for former MTA Board chair H. Welton Flynn.
MTA Board Vice Chairman Tom Nolan, before moving to San Francisco, was a member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, and was the first openly gay member of that body.
MTA Board member Bruce Oka is the only MTA Board member to have served on both the MTA Board and the MTA Citizens Advisory Council.
Former MTA Board member Leah Shahum is the current Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.
Director Cameron Beach is the former chief operating officer of the Sacramento Regional Transit District and current vice president of the Market Street Railway.
Former MTA Board member José Cisneros was later appointed, and subsequently elected, to the position of city Treasurer & Tax Collector.

WOW COOL!!!

Isn't Richard Lloyd one of the least weirdo people in rock?

(yeah yeah, except for that little detail...)

xxp, it's a thing...

St John's Wood is the answer to a popular brainteaser - "Which tube station is the only one with no letters in common with the word 'Mackerel'?"

Swindon Town are the only league team that have no letters in common with the word "Mackerel".

Tin is the only element that has no letters in common with the word "Mackerel".

It won't let me edit Ohio ;_;

What's round on the ends and hi in the middle?

chic

Casually randoming about in the full A-Z index and clicking on italicized "wtf" entries can yield some great redirects...

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"Well, someone might think it's spelled that way!"

I'm on the floor laffing.

Just cause the laptop isn't on the table, but still...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Gilliam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Ending

Ending

2012 ending shows an old man taking a dump while reading a book, in the year 2036.

The whole movie was this old man reading a book.

mind = blown

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from last.fm on harpo:

harpo’s real name is Jan Svensson, swedish pop musician, born in i Stockholm 5 april 1950.

His breakthrough was 1973 with the song Honolulu. During the 70s he had many hits in Sweden and abroad; for instance Sayonara, Moviestar, Television och Horoscope.

Harpo is living at a farm outside Halmstad in the south of Sweden, where he breeds horses. He is slightly disabled because a horse kicked him in the head real bad.

The trailer was released on the internet on November 2, 2009.Something that looks like dark prince appear in it(posibly tha dark prince inself)

Other less likely explanations involve "Hogan" (a nickname for Irish workers at the Hogg Island shipyard), a reference to the pork or "hog" meat used in hoagies, "honky sandwich" (using a racial slur for white people seen eating them) or "hooky sandwich" (derived from "hookie" for truant kids seen eating them).[3] Shortly after WWII, there were numerous varieties of the term in use throughout Philadelphia. By the 1940s, the spellings "hoagie" and, to a lesser extent, "hoagy" had come to dominate lesser user variations like "hoogie" and "hoggie".[10] By 1955, restaurants throughout the area were using the term "hoagie", with many selling hoagies and subs or hoagies and pizza. Listing in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming widespread in that city by 1966.[10]

i love that you were looking up hoagies

submarine sandwich was the main article tbh, hoagies was just a subsection.

On December 3, 2008, a spiritual sequel was reported to be going into development with the working title Repo Chick. [...] At least one celebrity cameo has been announced. Danbert Nobacon (of Chumbawamba) will reportedly have a small role.

In outside prostitution, the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners, usually dressed in skimpy clothing. Street prostitutes are usually referred to as "Liz Schlies".

http://roberthanks.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5500b4fae88330120a67025f5970b-pi

stolen from http://roberthanks.typepad.com/zoo_in_the_head/2009/11/sorry-ive-been-busy.html

Brel worked on the song at his house overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the house he shared with Sylvie Rivet, a publicist for Philips, in the place she had made known to him in 1960. It was the ideal place for him to create, and to indulge his passion for boats and planes. One morning at six o'clock he read the words of Amsterdam to Fernand, a restaurateur who was about to set off fishing for scorpion fish and conger eels for the bouillabaisse. Overcome, Fernand broke out in sobs and cut open some sea urchins to help control his emotion.[2]

Before its new use, the word crunk meant a hoarse, harsh cry.[6] The first known use of the word crunk was in 1972 by Dr. Seuss in his book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!.[7] In the book, crunk was used as a part of crunk-car compound, which meant inexistent type of transport.[8] In the mid 1990s, crunk was variously defined either as "hype, phat" or "the past tense of 'crank'" on rec.music.hip-hop newsgroup.[4] In 1999, Rolling Stone magazine published "glossary of Dirty South slang", where to crunk was defined as "to get excited".[4] The lyrics of "Who U Wit?", 1996 song by Lil Jon, contained the very first use of the word crunk in the context of crunk music.[2]

COPS was created by John Langley and his producing partner Malcolm Barbour. In 1983 Langley was working on Cocaine Blues, a television series about drugs in which everyone seemed to enjoy South Florida. As part of his research he went on a drug raid with drug enforcement officers, and was inspired to create a show focusing on real-life law enforcement.

Silly Putty is flammable. When lit, the flame is a very bright white but burns slowly. The leftover ash crumbles very easily. When Silly Putty is microwaved for about 3 minutes, it becomes very sticky. However, when cooled, the putty returns to its original state. When Silly Putty is baked in an oven at 450 degrees F for 15 minutes, it gives off noxious fumes. The cookie sheet on which the Silly Putty was baked will have a combination of dried putty and very hot, sticky putty.

lol @ "everyone seemed to enjoy South Florida"

Mr. Prokhorov stated that he initiated the deal to push the Russian basketball to a new level of development.[13]

In the sequel, she often wears a purple gown, as well as the usual blue outfit. In the third movie, she wears a white wedding dress. Her garb throughout the series changes, usually due to events of some sort or another.

imagine that!

Norman Bulansky is a middle-aged retarded man who works at a doughnut shop. The Doughnuts at his job has tempted to the point of him becoming overweight. He has a girlfriend, Sheila, a woman from another group home. He is very proud and possessive of a large ring of keys and of his dougnuts. This character relates to Jack as if a father. Though Arnold has the vindication to correct everyone he looks up to him also. Though Barry and Norman conflict, Norman still looks up to him also. Norman Bulansky may be considered the little brother of is apartment complex.
Lucien P. Smith is a large, black man who is profoundly retarded. He checks out armloads of books from the library, despite the fact he cannot read. He is in danger of losing his disability funds, when the state senate accuses him of faking his condition. He doesn't understand what is going on when he goes to the "State Sneck" and has a very profound scene when there.

Graham's former boss, Jack Crawford, calls on him to help find a killer called "The Tooth Fairy" who is murdering entire families. Graham is a profiler who has an uncanny ability to (figuratively) enter the mind of a killer and think and feel as he does.

Folk-rock songwriter Freddy Blohm's "Catherine, You're Great!" relates Catherine's most infamous urban myth from an equine point-of-view.