This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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LOL

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/922d12d1b4c8d0693dde270a7a4d6ab4.png

RIP bass

Ian Stewart shows up quite a bit in the late 60s and early 70s. graph.fail.org

Buffalo wings were also mentioned fairly early on Bartles & James wine advertisements; the actor in the spots seemed confused, thinking that he had never seen a buffalo fly.

In the episode "Calling All Customers", Mrs. Slocombe calls a lonely trucker on Mr. Humphries’ CB radio, setting up perhaps the most intricate "pussy" joke of the series. The trucker tells her he’s hauling dynamite, and proceeds to ask her about her interests. She notes gardening, but that her pussy is her favorite hobby. She exclaims that she has a mantel full of trophies and that it wins a medal every time she shows it. Then follows the sound of screeching tires and an explosion. Mr. Humphries laments, "He’s pulled off for a coffee".

Hurrah for youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtziMfnWME&feature=related

On March 8, 1983, Holland filed for divorce. Under California's community property laws, she was entitled to 50 percent of all the assets accumulated during the marriage, even though Carson earned virtually 100 percent of the couple's income. (Since, under the community property provisions of California law, each party legally earns half for themselves and half for their spouse.)

Not so much an unusual detail as an intriguing piece of redundance

Cyndi Lauper's mid-tempo ballad cover version of "When You Were Mine" is also synthesizer-based. Lauper did not change the pronoun gender in the song lyrics, which caused it to allude that the lost love to whom she is singing is a gay man who came out of the closet and is having a new affair with another man, or to a bisexual male lover.

From the entry on Chuck Clayton: "In stories where he plays sports, Chuck is usually seen with an afro, while in stories where he is focused on drawing he sports a flat top."

In 1921, Andrew Kanelos was inspired by the frosty majesty of the Andes Mountains. Dumbstruck with inventive genius, Andrew or Andy as he was known by his friends, decided to bring this same beauty to people's mouths everywhere when he yelled from the infamous Dead Man's peak "I'll put that magic in your mouth."

hahaha

not really unusual but intersting - I had no idea this was why Lester retired.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kinnear)

On 19 September 1988, Kinnear fell from a horse during the filming of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain, sustaining a broken pelvis. He was taken to hospital in Madrid, and died from a heart attack the following day. He was 54 years old. The film's director, Richard Lester, quit his own film career as a direct result of Kinnear's death.

it's the first picture's caption that's just killing me

Infant

also from the talk page on that one, an unusual detail that has tragically been edited out.

seven toes?

Babies have also been known to be born with seven toes.

is this really necessary? 24.234.170.197 20:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

True - but they have been born with many other deformities too - they don't need to be listed. Maustrauser 22:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC

LOL. "An infant".

loled @ "an infant"

srsly lold so hard

From the page on Johnny Kidd & The Pirates:

The b-side to Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' 1964 single "Always and Ever" was a cover of "Dr Feel-Good", by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman (also known as "Piano Red") who recorded the song as "Dr Feelgood & The Interns". The name of the song is slang for heroin. The band Dr. Feelgood took their name from the Johnny Kidd & The Pirates recording.[3]

In 1998, Daniel Baldwin was found running naked through the halls of New York's Plaza Hotel shouting "Baldwin!" and was arrested for possession of cocaine.

Wonder where he kept it...

In his baldwin?

haha, was he pointing out that he was a baldwin?! like "baldwin approaching! baldwin on the loose!"

baldwin, or bald fail?

It was long reported that the final written words of Walt Disney were Kurt Russell's name scribbled on a piece of paper. Russell confirmed that he had seen the paper himself, but did not know what Disney was trying to convey.

hahaha you are making that up

its true actually

As animals native to Europe, hedgehogs hold a rightful place in European folklore. Since the mammal did not possess any "righteous" qualities, it never made it to the court art; however, its relationships with fairy tales has been a long and fruitful one.

Whoa, the Kurt Sussel thing might actually be true!

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/04/24/kurt_russell_confirms_that_walt_disney_s

Russell.

wow

it is true

I am sad, because the entry for Rude Dog and the Dweebs on Wikipedia used to have something in there about how there was a controversy about whether or not Rude Dog was "on 'roids"

Now it's gone :(

# Mikel John Obi (born 1987), a popular Nigerian footballer based in England
# Victor Nsofor Obinna (born 1987), a renowned Nigerian footballer

Be careful what signs you make with your hands - you might get sued by a wrestler.

On August 31, 2010 professional wrestler "Diamond" Dallas Page filed a lawsuit against 3OH!3 for copyright infringement of his trademarked "Diamond Cutter" symbol. The gesture is made by connecting the thumbs and index fingers of one's hands in a single vertical plane. Page's gesture is meant to be in the shape of a diamond to correspond with his wrestling nickname, while 3OH!3's gesture is meant to symbolize the bands's name with the middle finger, ring finger and little finger representing the number three on either side of the empty space created by joining the index fingers and thumbs which represents the 'OH'. The lawsuit is for unauthorized use of the copyrighted logo which was used to promote the band. Page previously filed a similar lawsuit against rapper Jay-Z in 2005 which resulted in Page dropping the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3OH!3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_17_(Don't_You_Worry_'bout_Me)

This song ties Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" for the most chromatic key changes in a rock or pop song. The song starts in the key of F# and modulates five times until reaching its ending key of B.

Acid Techno was popular throughout the early 1990s in the London squat party scene.(citation not needed - thousands of us were there)

haha!

like that one.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ross_%28drug_trafficker%29

"In 1996, Ross was sentenced to life ass rappings after being convicted of trying to purchase more than 100 kilograms of ne from a federal agent."

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

"Kroeger gave up ownership of the restaurant Figaro Figaro in Simi Valley, California. He has relocated to his hometown in Iowa and can still be seen in local theater, as well as the occasional infomercial.
He is now associate creative director for Cedar Falls, Iowa-based Mudd Advertising (www.mudd.com). Kroeger is a local celebrity in Cedar Falls where mocking his former SNL employment has become somewhat of a cult-status inside joke amongst the townspeople."

The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones is the posthumous third studio album by American rapper Pimp C. The album will be released October 5, 2010.[2] It will be his final album.[2]

How defeatest, it's like nobody wants to give the witch doctors a chance anymore....

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (pronounced /dʒiəˈmɑːti/; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor known for the thick beard he often wears in films and his slight figure.

The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones is the posthumous third studio album by American rapper Pimp C. The album will be released October 5, 2010.[2] It will be his final album.[2]

How defeatest, it's like nobody wants to give the witch doctors a chance anymore....

I guess after 2Pac this needs to be said out loud.

Burton's later career included work with Ricky Nelson who died 25 years ago, Elvis Presley who died 35 years ago , John Denver who died 15 years ago, Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons who died almost 40 years ago, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris.

ya Tuomas but even then it's like "how can you say for sure" it's his last album unless there are truly no more unused verses of his lying around?

Arrested Development may refer to:

* arrested development, a medical term meaning stoppage of development
* Developmental disorder
* Arrested Development (group), an alternative hip-hop music group from Atlanta, Georgia
* Arrested Development (TV series), a television series that originally aired on the Fox Network from 2003 to 2006 (We are legally obligated to make this distinction)
* Arrested Development (radio series), a radio series that aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2000

What's with the legally obligated bit? Surely they would make the distinction anyway?

the being legally obligated to make that distinction was a running joke in the show, wasn't it?

In the '80s and '90s in Latin America was born on power trio of rock Soda Stereo that revolutionized Latin rock and became the biggest rock band in the history of Latin American rock.