This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

He is mentioned in the spell cast in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks":

"Treguna Mercoides te Brandon Silvestry"

Personnel
John Cale - bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, viola, vocals
Phil Manzanera - guitar, slide guitar on "Momamma Scuba"
Fred Smith - drums
Eno - Eno

Bez used to get a similar credit on later Happy Mondays albums.

A "curly hawk" or "curl-hawk" is similar to the fauxhawk, this lesser known hawk is in traditional faux style but consists of long thin curls. Having been made famous by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen during the early years of Full House, this is most commonly sported by infants.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Leandro_Dami%C3%A3o.jpg/261px-Leandro_Dami%C3%A3o.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leandro_Dami%C3%A3o

Jason Simon is the nephew of The Wire creator David Simon. Dead Meadow's music was used briefly in the episode React Quotes in season five of The Wire.

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

Do not punch on Volkswagons or Jettas.

Volkswagons?

Also is that Volkswagen Jettas or non-Volkswagen Jettas?

His nickname is "Buck Rodgers"[3][4][4] after the Buck Rogers character with a similar name

The song is notorious for its amount of swearing. The song was originally written by McKagan with the title "Why Do You Look at Me When You Hate Me?". Nevertheless, the title was shortened, and the original title became the first line in the final version. It was then going to be titled "Get in the Ring Motherfucker," but that was changed as well.

Truck nuts in U.S. politics

In May 2008, the National Review suggested that Barack Obama should get a pair of truck nuts to understand the rural working class.

References

Blair, Zachary, "Junk in the Trunk: A Queer Exploration of Truck Nutz as Contemporary Material Culture," paper presented at Queertopia, Northwestern University Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL, 2009.

Ah, I didn't know that's what the National Enquirer was meaning.

Like the name of the series itself, episode titles of The Big Bang Theory always start with "The"

Although Hard-Fi are generally considered part of the indie rock scene,[9] Richard has mentioned numerous times that they are heavily influenced by soul and dance music.[10]

The-Dream's first single from "The Love; IV" will be "Talk That Shit (feat. R. Kelly)" (WTF).

Upon its release, Love King received positive reviews from most music critics, who praised The-Dream's detailed production and complimented his sexual, boastful lyrics.

Sharky's Machine is a 1981 motion picture directed by Burt Reynolds, who stars in the title role. The movie is an adaptation of William Diehl's first novel Sharky's Machine (1978), with a screenplay by Gerald Di Pego.
Diehl, who was age 50 when he wrote the novel, saw the movie shot on location in and around his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Its cast included Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, and Richard Libertini.
It has been the most successful box-office release of a film directed by Reynolds.

Only thing I remember about Sharkey's Machine is that guy falling out the window.

In 1968 Rantzen fell in love with Desmond Wilcox, who was her Department Head (boss, essentially)

also

Cagatha "Caggie" Dunlop is an English "singer" and media personality who is the star of the reality series Made in Chelsea.[1]

fantastic use of hands in air quotation marks imo.

Barber attended Bangor University. She counts Ian McKellen amongst her closest friends, and he recently bought her a library.

Considered highly offensive by many at the time, the sketches primarily took the form of bizarre, sometime drunken streams of consciousness led by Cook, with interjections from Moore. Memorable moments from the records include Clive claiming that the worst job he ever had was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's anus, Derek claiming his worst job was cleaning up Winston Churchill's bogeys (leading the pair to conclude that the Titanic was one such bogey), Clive claiming that he was sexually aroused by the sight of a deceased Pope lying in state, and a horse-racing 'commentary' featuring horses named after sexual organs or their vulgarised derivatives.

Though the recordings were far too crude for television or a mainstream audience, Derek and Clive bootleg recordings circulated. They became famous as mostly unscripted dialogues, vulgar situations depicting with copious swearing - especially the word "cunt".

that's more of a usual detail in derek and clive sketches, no?

Need to replace "bootleg recordings" with "Virgin Records" for accuracy there.

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

Theatrical release poster
Directed by John Schultz[1]
Based on Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
Starring Heather Graham[2]hahahahahahahahaha she is funny!

Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and his poodle, Edsel.

I always find it funny when we get pets' names, but not family members.

xxp

Originally, The record was never intended for release, but when bootleg copies of the recordings proved popular, Cook decided there was money to be made and, padding the record out with live material recorded at the Bottom Line in New York City, the album was released in 1976. The record was very nearly called Derek and Clive (Dead).

My favorite part of the Derek And Clive excerpt above is the use of "memorable moments."

However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.[9]

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/A_thread_called_%22This_is_the_thread_for_unusual_details_in_wikipedia_articles.%22

On September 19, 2005 Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding achievement as a DJ.

David Mancuso smokes Parliament 100's Full Flavor like a boss. On December 23, 2006 a nightclub named after Mancuso opened in Tübingen, southern Germany.

that nightclub may be the only thing in Tübingen

From Axl Rose article:

A second baritone,[16] Rose began developing "different voices" during chorus practice to confuse his teacher

In early July 2010, Cheney was outfitted with a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute to compensate for worsening congestive heart failure.[142] The device pumps blood continuously through his body.[143][144] He was released from Inova on August 9, 2010,[145] and will have to decide whether to seek a full heart transplant.[146][147] This pump is centrifugal and as a result he is alive without a pulse.[148]

o_O

That Cheney detail is actually true.

It is unusual to point out that he's alive though.

During the spring of 2009, Bareilles was on her second headlining tour, the "Gravity Tour," to promote the third and final single from her album Little Voice. She made her third appearance in Charlottesville, VA during UVA's annual Springfest on March 28, her first as the opener for Marc Broussard in 2005 and the second being an opening for Maroon 5. Bareilles also played multiple college shows in April and May. Some were for college students only and others were open to the public.

Eddie tuned to "Hendrix's tuning" which is flat E, the open G and B reaches a justly intonated, beatless third. This consonant third was almost unheard of in distorted-guitar rock and allowed Van Halen to use major chords in a way that mixed classic hard rock power with "happy" pop. The effect is pronounced on songs such as "Runnin' With the Devil", "Unchained", and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?". What?

from Eddie Van Halen article

What? = otm

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

Undergraduates being considered for membership are called "embryos" and are invited to "embryo parties"

lol Steve the reason I found it funny is I found myself going "huh?" after reading it and seeing the "What?" there confirmed I wasn't alone. (and I fucking played guitar for 8 years!)

The album is widely seen as a return to the more harder-edged sound of their earlier releases: the band itself has described it as a mixture of Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go. The album was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, whose brother Tom provided the US mix of The Holy Bible.

Plant, known generally for his improvisation while performing live, would ad lib during live performances of "Kashmir". He would add in "sweet mama", "slowly dyin'", "now just a minute", "sweet darlin'", and he would stutter the words "baby" and "mama". He would also end that section with "there's no denyin'" and "Woman, talkin' to ya!"

unusual details in imdb trivia pages

This is the second time that January Jones has been cast in 1962 opposite an actor with a pork based name. The first was in "Mad Men" (2007) opposite Jon Hamm and then this alongside Kevin Bacon

lol wow

Bacon going Hamm

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

As part of his contract for starring in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale as Gallian, Liotta had permission to keep all wizard robes donned for the film.

The best part about that is that it's listed under Personal Life.

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

The technology has seen frequent use in Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea, while the West has been slower in the adoption of QR codes.

Isn't The Netherlands in the West anymore?