This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

From the entry on Frank R. Stockton:

He supported himself as an alleged hot dog eating champion until his father's death in 1860; he broke the world record by eating 2.5 hot dogs and buns in 60 seconds.

In 2005, [Ozzy Osbourne] released a box set called Prince of Darkness. The first and second discs are collections of live performances, B-sides, demos and singles. The third disc contained duets and other odd tracks with other artists, including "Born to Be Wild" with Miss Piggy.

What's the unusual detail there? It's all true.

It is unusually detailed.

I just thought it was hilarious how that particular meeting was so blandly singled out among the more conventional collaborations - the ones with actual musicians. (I'd never heard of that particular meeting and had to confirm that it wasn't vandalism.)

Well, looking at the album credits, Miss Piggy is probably the most famous of those collaborators.

(Though Slash and DMX might give her a good competition.)

.....

i want to believe

As concepts of both hustle and flow are unique to African American culture, it turned out to be nearly impossible to find proper translations for international release of the film. For example, the Russian translation of the title means "The fuss and the torrent".

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

At one point:

The album label lists band members as Carla Bozulich, Harold "Biff" Barefoot Sanders III and Wee-Wee (John Napier). Bozulich later went on to found the band Geraldine Fibbers and Biff Sanders was a founding member of Eric Avery's side project Polar Bear. Wee Wee is currently attending Humboldt State University and in his junior year as a social work major with a minor in Native American studies in addition to producing and/or recording bands between semesters.

Further down the page underneath the usual 'stub' marker:

Half of this article is totally wrong and none of it represents the true spirit of the band. At least you know exactly what school John is going to.

Umm, the one entry under 'Leon Czolgosz in film and popular culture': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz#Czolgosz_in_film_and_popular_culture

There are fourteen entries there.

I think he means the last one.

He knew full well, many years ago, what today's octopus wrestlers are just beginning to learn--that it is impossible for a man with two arms to apply a full nelson on an octopus; he knew full well the futility of trying for a crotch hold on an opponent with eight crotches.

The song is often misspelled as "Ferry 'Cross the Mersey", but according to the song's lyrics, the track is correctly titled "Ferry Cross the Mersey". "Cross" is not a contraction of "Across", rather, it is a request of the ferry: "Ferry, cross the Mersey." The ferry is the Mersey Ferry, which still runs to Liverpool from Birkenhead and Seacombe on the Wirral.

Sarah Silverman enjoys playing Scrabble on the Internet. One of her regular opponents is Alyssa Milano, who lives in the same building as her

Although the list of websites is kept confidential by the Media Development Authority, the following sites are currently not available in Singapore (based on user attempts):

By the late 1970s, his use of cocaine was becoming a serious problem. Professionally, it affected his ability to maintain an erection, as is apparent from his performance in the 1980 film Insatiable.

It is understood that Flash wears no underwear as it is impractical and uncomfortable at high speeds. The tight fitting spandex provides him all the support necessary throughout his rigorous movements.

LCD Soundsystem is particularly popular in Britain

In 2009, Stamos announced that a feature film based on the show is still on. Stamos told The New York Daily News, "I'm working on a movie idea, but it wouldn't be us playing us. I'm not 100% sure, but it would probably take place in the first few years." Stamos has Steve Carell and Tracy Morgan in mind for the roles of Danny and Joey respectively.[12]

In January 2008, the UFO religion Raëlian Movement nominated Barenboim an "Honorary Guide" "for his actions towards more peace in the Middle East and for championing Palestinian's [sic] rights while being a citizen of Israel."

LCD Soundsystem is particularly popular in Britain

haha I learned this from wikipedia too

I sorta assumed the opposite because l0u1s jagg3r is basically my sample set for the category "british people"

Among his fans, Todd Terry is known as Todd the God, God Terry, Todd Godrry, Godd Gerry (or, occasionally, simply God, because he might be a Five Percenter, but this is unconfirmed).

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

It has been rumored that Veloso has also been collaborating with American hip-hop artists Lil Wayne and Sean "P-Diddy" Combs to record a Tropicalia/hip-hop fusion song to be released sometime in the summer of 2010.

ugh no thx

lol iatee if you see me evince a particularly dogmatic opinion rest assured it is probably because i have become irascible at most british people promoting the opposite opinion

Michael McDonald: And uncannily, you know, those things always have a little bit of truth to them. It’s kind of like when you get a letter from a stalker who’s never met you. They somehow hit on something, and you have to admit they’re pretty intuitive.

Anonymous stalkers basically otm

From the Power Metal article:

Instrumentation
Power metal guitarists and bassists generally play rapid streams of notes, but change chords comparatively slowly, with a harmonic tempo of once per measure or slower.

That's a somewhat odd way of describing it.

From the article on Outnumbered's Tyger Drew-Honey:

Tyger is the son of actor and adult movie director Simon Lindsay Honey best known for his role as the bumbling, slightly confused porn character Ben Dover.

Crikey, bring your son to work day must have been interesting.

In Comic 367 of Questionable Content one of the characters says the 'girl from Cat Power' is hot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OU812

Black And Blue
"Black And Blue" was a dripping with sex song, based on Sammy's experiences during the tour supporting 5150, where he was actually bruised up pretty bad.

Sucker In A 3 Piece
"Sucker In A 3 Piece" was a song written about a moment, when Sammy Hagar was visiting Cabo San Lucas, he saw an attractive 23-year-old woman poolside with a 60-year-old rich man, possibly a suit.

Hire this person for the 33 1/3 book!

Filk performer Luke Ski recorded a parody of the Tyminski/Allen/Enright recording of "Man of Constant Sorrow" for his 2002 album, Uber Geek, titled "I Am a Vamp of Constant Sorrow," about Angel, a vampire from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.

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

In the popular cookbook The Joy of Cooking, the author's favorite recipes include "Cockaigne" in the name, (e.g., "Fruit Cake Cockaigne"), explained in the foreword to the 1975 edition as after the name of the Becker country home in Anderson Township, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

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

Supermodel Agyness Deyn (Laura Hollins) has been photographed wearing a The Pop Group t-shirt.

She is beyond good and evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Proc%C3%A8s-Verbal

Then Adam addresses a small crowd in the town. His unnerving rhetoric ends in his arrest and commitment to an asylum. And there the interrogation begins. A writer at ilxor.com wrote that[3]

“ The Interrogation still holds the power to grip and astonish today. ”

(It's not even true, the ILX thread has some reviews copied from the publisher's website, it seems)

Aye I just checked that, it's c&p'd from the publisher's blurb on Amazon.

Personnel

* Steve Salas - guitars, vocals
* Buddy Miles - drums, fuzz bass, vocals
* Bootsy Collins - space bass, vocals
* Gary Gooper, Bernard Fowler, George Clinton - background vocals
* David Friendly, Vince McClean, Matt Stein - digital bollocks

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Eye_Open_(Hardware_album)";

Wingdings has a history of controversy. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This could be interpreted as a message of approval of killing Jews, especially those from New York City. Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. (The character sequence "NYC" in the later-released Webdings font, in turn, is rendered as eye, heart, and city skyline, which could be interpreted as "I Love New York". Microsoft has stated that this is intentional.)[2]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Wingdings_NYC.svg/300px-Wingdings_NYC.svg.png

haaaa

"Fandom" implies a subculture marked by youthful enthusiasm but comparatively little sophistication compared to scholarly literary criticism and thus marks the popular aspect of the general topic of the reception of J. R. R. Tolkien

In her coffee table book, Influence, Mary-Kate Olsen cited Darger as one of her favorite painters.

Nice

Darger was kinda great but should be defended from his terrible twee fans

Michael Sams (born 11 August 1941) is an English rapist, kidnapper, extortionist, murderer and proper mental who kidnapped Julie Dart on 9 July 1991 and Stephanie Slater on 22 January 1992.

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

In 2002, Caroline Lucas took Simon Beadling to Disney Land with her son Theo. They went on: The teacups; the peter pan ride; the rocket ships and rode the Mark Twain boat.

A French tickler is a latex condom that is designed with additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.
A typical French Tickler uses a number of bumps, crests and falls in the lining of the latex ostensibly to make sexual intercourse more enjoyable or pleasurable for the recipient. They may also have hair-like protrusions.

;_;

from the entry on George Selden (author of Cricket in Times Square)

In 1974, under the pseudonym of Terry Andrews, Selden wrote the novel The Story of Harold, the story of a bisexual children's book author's various affairs, friendships, and mentoring of a lonely child. The book is very descriptive of a time and a culture in Western homosexual practices. Extreme scenes of sado-masochism, orgies and other very shocking material, to some. It is also autobiographical in the sense the author writes of a character who writes Children's books and yet leads this Gay lifestyle that most would find of ill repute even today. The relationship to the boy and also the author own feelings regarding his own existence are the main keys in this novel.