This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism#Radical_feminist_theory_and_ideology

Maybe you mean this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radical_feminism&diff=281449271&oldid=281343729

Gaylord Perry was named after a close friend of his father's, who died while having his teeth pulled.[3]

i thought this was pretty sweet:
Košarka (meaning basketball in Macedonian and Serbo-Croat) is an abandoned Turkish village in the mountains of the eastern mountain valley of the municipality Demir Kapija in the Republic of Macedonia. Most of its residents moved down, close to the highway to develop another village, Laki. Laki is not a registered village, yet, but electricity has been brought to the villagers. There is a fountain where the village used to be, yet, difficult to find, as the footpath has been worn, hardly ever used.

also i browsed Yello and its bandmembers, and it's quite a mess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lambie_(footballer_born_1940)

Lambie left the club in March 1996 after a well publicised incident in which an enraged supporter, Keith G (for Grrr) Young, allegedly attempted to run the manager's car off the road.

browsed Yello and its bandmembers, and it's quite a mess

Went and had a look - Blank is pretty much a stub, didn't see anything especially wrong with Meier, and the main Yello one is obviously just written by many ESL hands, was there anything particularly unusual that leapt out?

[The French town of] Ferney was first noted in 14th-century Burgundian registers as "Fernex." Four centuries later, however, Voltaire changed the "x" to a "y" due to the excessive number of towns in the region with names ending in "x," such as Maconnex, Saconnex, Gex, Versonnex, Ornex.

My preferred unusual wikipedia details are those where I can't tell whether it's interesting actual facts or someone making stuff up!

(aka [citation needed])

Haha there's more, whatta guy:

The château includes the main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room (moved from its original location by later private owners), a garden with a fine view of the Alps, and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God. In the church's inscription, "Deo erexit VOLTAIRE" ("Erected to God by VOLTAIRE"), Voltaire's name is written in the largest characters.

Steve Summers (born Steve Podwal) is the singer of the American hard rock band Pretty Boy Floyd (not to be confused with the now defunct Canadian band of the same name). Summers has appeared on all of the band's albums to date and boasts that he earned the nickname "Sex" for his sexual prowess.

On the Beach Boys' last album, released 1992:

The album sold very badly (reportedly less than 1,000 copies) and was received less favorably than any album put out by the band to date. Critics attacked the album upon release and are still going at it today.

The Roger Rabbit dance

The Roger Rabbit became a popular dance move in the early 1990s.[37][38] It was named after the floppy movements of the Roger Rabbit cartoon character. In movement, the Roger Rabbit dance is similar to the Running Man, but done by skipping backwards with arms performing a flapping gesture. Both The Running Man and The Roger Rabbit have since been called "outdated."[39]

Went and had a look - Blank is pretty much a stub, didn't see anything especially wrong with Meier, and the main Yello one is obviously just written by many ESL hands, was there anything particularly unusual that leapt out?

this entire page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Peron

and i'd say the entire life story of Dieter Meier is unusual. ("one time member of the Swiss golf team" "industrialist keeping himself busy with art exhibitions" like a plaque saying:

On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later

so yeah you're right, there's nothing really wrong, but it did amuse me (i knew nothing about Yello before visiting those pages)

ah yeah, if you'd never known about Meier, that could come off as one grand wikivandalism prank!

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

Indomie® Mi goreng is an instant noodles product line made under the Indomie brand by the Indofood company, the world's largest instant noodle manufacturer, located in Indonesia. It is distributed in many countries around the world.

We must stop buying palm oil products if we want to save the critically endangered orang-utan.

“Only 7000 orang-utans are left, in Indonesia and Malaysia, due to their homes in the rainforests being cut down,” says Dr Peter Pratje, the director of Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Programme (SOCP).

Shame on Indofood for using palm oil.

Not a lol at wikipedia; a lol at the French and their administrative divisions... Background: the most local level of administration in France is the commune, of which there are about 36 000. For instance, the city of Paris is one, with more than two million people, then there is...Rochefourchat:

Rochefourchat is a commune in the Drôme department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. In the commune there is a single house, a converted barn, and the ruins of an old castle. The nearest communes to Rochefourchat are Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, Les Tonils, Pradelle and Brette.

As of the 1999 census, there was just one permanent inhabitant, a 38-year old divorced man.

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

In some American homes, ham and cheese sandwiches are a common element of hastily prepared, impromptu home meals. Thus, in a detective novel we read:

Bosch went into the the kitchen and got a beer out and made a ham and cheese sandwich. He stood by the sink eating and drinking and trying to organize things about the case in his head.[2]

[2]

Well it's only fair that Mr Connelly is credited for his literary effort.

During his time at the Dutch club Ajax, Benni McCarthy and then teammate Mario Melchiot formed a critically acclaimed jazz expressionist band, Benni and The Melting Melchiots. Releasing one album, Benni and Mario Go South. A change in musical direction forced the duo to put the band on indefinite hiatus. Although a reunion is believed to highly possible in late 2009.

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

In an episode of Roseanne, Roseanne has a dream after having undergone breast reduction surgery. She goes to the mirror and realizes that she has comically larger breasts than before. Doogie Howser (Harris) comes in and asks an upset Roseanne if they were supposed to be bigger than they are in the dream. Dan steps and excitedly remarks "Way to go, Doogie!" before Roseanne passes out. She wakes up to realize it was only a dream.

Skirting board incident

On Thursday 17 March, 1983 Dustin Gee purchased four packs of 6 foot skirting board from Wickes Building Supplies on Stirling Road, York. Gee was helping a friend with a DIY project at his home on Hall Rise in the nearby village of Haxby. Gee inexpertly lashed the packs of skirting board onto the roof of his brand new Austin Maestro. Gee drove down the A1237 towards his friend's house. However, as he turned left at the roundabout onto Haxby Road, the packs of skirting boards slid loose and caused two other vehicles to collide. Local magistrates subsequently fined Gee and endorsed his driving licence with penalty points. Gee spoke to the local press about the incident and said, “I’m not a very practical sort of person. Today, I learnt a lesson. Tomorrow I'll learn how to tie a proper knot.”.

It is conceivably possible that Richard Herring has vandalised "Andrew Gonk Collins" wikipedia entry:

In the podcast he often makes reference to Herring's collection of 80s toys and in particular to his massive lifesized pork cutlass of which he is particularly envious.

and i'd say the entire life story of Dieter Meier is unusual. ("one time member of the Swiss golf team" "industrialist keeping himself busy with art exhibitions" like a plaque saying:

On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later

All this is pretty much consistent with what Dieter Meier has told of himself in all the interviews I've read. Of course it could all be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by him (this would actually fit his character), but I wouldn't imagine some random Wikipedia contributor doing independent research on Meier's life.

The performance piece where he placed a plaque at a railway station in 1972 saying that he would stand there in 1994, and then kept his promise in 1994, has been documented though, I've seen pictures of it.

That same year, whilst covering the war in Bosnia Bell was seriously wounded by shrapnel while recording a report. The grenade was fired by Serbian forces. He is often noted for wearing a white suit.

The performance piece where he placed a plaque at a railway station in 1972 saying that he would stand there in 1994, and then kept his promise in 1994, has been documented though, I've seen pictures of it.

Yeah, I heard about the Kassell plaque on Norwegian radio in 1986, so it's def not invented later than that at least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlito%27s_Way

To achieve the rough and choppy nature of the East River a WOW Wave Ball (a sophisticated Belgian device, which churns up controlled waves) was used.[12] The ZOW Wave Sphere from Portugal was originally considered, as it is a far more sophisticated device and can shape waves based on the target water temperature, salinity and ocean floor depth. However, the CEO of ZOW Waves, Fernando Trerrero, was indicted on (what some considered trumped-up) conspiracy charges just before principal shooting of the Rikers Island escape scene was to begin, and as such the ZOW Sphere was unable to be delivered on time. Belgian's WOW team was ready to take over, and eventually became the de facto wave generating spherical device supplier to the film industry.[11]

Band members have stated that their first shows after the release of Shape of Punk to Come were devastating to them emotionally and that their final tour was not a good time at all, but awful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(film)
The movie's "title song" was recorded by The Dudes Of Wrath, which was composed of KISS' Paul Stanley and producer Desmond Child both on vocals, Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell and Guy Mann-Dude on guitars, Whitesnake's Rudy Sarzo on bass guitar, and Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee on drums. Also backing vocals by Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony & Kane Roberts.

References to Guy Mann-Dude always make me happy - I keep forgetting about that... fellow.

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Moond is a clan of Jats found in Rajasthan, India. Ramesh Chandra Gunarthi in his book “Rajasthani Jatiyon ki khoj” (1977) has mentioned about the origin of this gotra. One of the sons of Raja Mangal Rao Bhojsi of Bhati clan was Moonda who joined Jats. The descendants of Moonda are known as Moond. The capital of Moond Kings was at village Mandore in Jodhpur district. Other places connected with the history of Moonds are villages Munda (Churu district), Mundsar (Bikaner district), Mundara (Pali district), Mandawa (Jhunjhunu district), Mundwa (Nagaur district) etc. in Rajasthan, India.

Moond Jats are presently found in district Sikar, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Barmer and Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan. SURENDER MOOND BUSINESSMAN SRI GANGANAGAR

Note that the title incorporates an intentional misspelling (contéee instead of contée). It may or may not incorporate an intentional dropping of acute accents in Sibérie/Siberie and m'était/m'etait.

The grammatically correct title would be Sibérie m'était contée. The title as written in capital letters on the album cover is SIBERIE M'ETAIT CONTÉEE. To interpret this, it is necessary to understand that the French language usually drops accents (diacritics) on capital letters, but nevertheless very often retains the accent for capital É (E with acute accent) when it occurs in a word-final or near word-final position, because in this position it could be mistaken for silent "e" and the word could be mistaken for another word: eg, conté (told [masculine]), conte (tale).

Thus, nearly all French language references interpret the title as Sibérie m'était contéee (Amazon.fr, album reviews, etc). However the official Manu Chao website manuchao.net gives the title as Siberie m'etait contéee (without accents on Sibérie or m'était) even though Sibérie appears elsewhere on the same webpage with the accent. It is not known if this dropping of accents in Sibérie and m'était actually reflects the singer's intentions or was merely done by the site's webmaster.

Uno H2O Splash - Features a special "whirlpool" device that has you shake the Magic 8 ball type of thingy to reveal what you must do such as Wave Left or Wave Right

from the entry for the Belushi/policedog buddy movie K-9:

The German Shepherd Dog "Jerry Lee" was played by Koton, a real-life police dog from the Kansas City, Missouri police department. In 1991, Koton was shot and killed while trying to apprehend a suspect in the murder of a police officer.

That is the saddest thing.

But it will also make me watch K-9 in a whole new light: Koton didn't just play a police dog, Koton died in the line of duty

Here's to you, Koton -- actor, police officer, role model, and friend

ya what they don't mention is that he was working undercover at the time

that just gave me an awesome idea for a kid's movie named doggie brasco

That's right up there with this from imdb:

In the middle of the film, Dolly Parton and her colleagues send a nosy secretary to the Aspen Language Center in Colorado to learn French. The particular TWA 747 shown in the film later was used in reality on the ill-fated flight of TWA 800, which exploded off of Long Island, NY.

later was used in reality

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

Kattan married model Sunshine Tutt on June 28, 2008, in California after proposing to her at her grandparents' home in Gainesville, Texas on Christmas Eve 2006.[2] Kattan's publicist told E! News on August 19, 2008 that the couple had separated but had no plans for divorce.[3] However, on August 22, 2008, Kattan filed for legal separation from his wife, claiming that the couple separated on August 10.[4]

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

Eurosport offers viewers varied sports such as UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup football, the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally, the Olympics, cycling events such as Le Tour de France and Britain's Premier Calendar road racing series, tennis events including the French Open and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, World Championship Snooker, Australian Football League, wintersports, (although biathlon is usually cancelled to extend coverage of other sports) and youth sports like skating and surfing.

a frustrated biathlon-fan?

I don't know which part of this story is the least plausible.

The idea of Chris Kattan being attractive to a woman in the first place, obv.

Sveinung (born Frunz Dønezal, 1976 in Levanger, Norway) is a singer, songwriter and piano player. A 6 ft 5 in, 350 lb. gentle giant with a habit of pinching people's behinds (as a greeting),

From Talk: Steve Perry (musician) -
I've removed "Steve Perry is the best singer in the world.". -Nick
― J0hn D., Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:48 (1 year ago)

Still on Steve's wiki:

Steve Perry is eligible for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, both as a solo artist (since 2009) and as a member of Journey (since 2000).

In the IBM entry:

Intelligent dance music, or Internet Dork Music(commonly IDM) is a popular name for an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s at the end of the British rave era.

Er...that would be the IDM entry. godammit.

put a dork on it

Delta Burke has compulsive hoarding syndrome. "At one time I had 27 storage units. I don't have a big enough house!" she said. "My mom had it, it's my mother's fault. She saved the diaper I came home from the hospital in!"[6]

In an episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia complained about the high price of Pepperidge Farm cookies and said not to buy them with her money.