This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

The first edition Monster Manual notably included topless portrayals of some of its female monsters, including the succubus, Type V demons, lamia, and sylph.

Maceration of byproducts from food processing plants sometimes involves the use of a chopper pump to create a "blended" slurry [weasel words]

In 1819, Runge was invited to show Goethe how belladonna caused dilation of the pupil, which Runge did, using a cat as an experimental subject. Goethe was so impressed with the demonstration that

"Nachdem Goethe mir seine größte Zufriedenheit sowol über die Erzählung des durch scheinbaren schwarzen Staar Geretteten, wie auch über das andere ausgesprochen, übergab er mir noch eine Schachtel mit Kaffeebohnen, die ein Grieche ihm als etwas Vorzügliches gesandt. "Auch diese können sie zu Ihren Untersuchungen brauchen," sagte Goethe. Er hatte recht; denn bald darauf entdeckte ich darin das, wegen seines großen Stickstoffgehaltes so berühmt gewordene Coffein."
"After Goethe had expressed to me his greatest satisfaction regarding the account of the man whom I'd rescued [from serving in Napoleon's army] by apparent "black star" [i.e., amaurosis, blindness] as well as the other, he handed me a carton of coffee beans, which a Greek had sent him as a delicacy. "You can also use these in your investigations," said Goethe. He was right; for soon thereafter I discovered therein caffeine, which became so famous on account of its high nitrogen content."[1][2]

so am i reading this wrong, or was runge fucking around with belladonna in order to help people avoid the draft?

The song inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name, directed by Dick Lowry, who also directed all but the last of The Gambler television movie saga pentalogy.

While he ultimately embraced fascism, Williamson flirted with communism during the 1920s, and his early work contains a Left-wing ruralism which would not have been out of place in a late 1960s/early 1970s John Peel show;[citation needed] it is not without coincidence that, in his old age, he genuinely responded to the music of the Incredible String Band when it was played to him by a teenage acquaintance.[18][better source needed]

Bryce stared at rapper Joe Budden in a night club for close to 4 hours. The encounter continued outside the club when Bryce followed Joe and his girlfriend at the time. The girlfriend later confirmed she was previously in a sexual relationship with Bryce. So Bryce stared at rapper Joe Budden in a night club for close to 4 hours thinking, "Yeah".

Hartz led a normal life until a sudden unexplained emotional disturbance changed his entire personality in 1971. He refused all medical help. He divorced in 1972, rejected all his friends, and feuded intensely with students, faculty and administrators. In 1974 he resigned from Harvard, but his scholarly skills and interests remained strong.

Also known as
Alan Jesus George Jones Sprockets Mr. Spanky, Al Jaworski, The Duft

Bort is the son of Bert and Ernie on the Muppets, he was adopted after the slavery epidemic.

In 1839, she was selling leeches to the Bristol Infirmary Hospital. She died from a fall on 24 December 1864 and was buried in the Hebron Road cemetery in Bristol.[3] Her daughter carried on with her business, lived alone in Bedminster in a house full of cats until her death in a fire in February 1900.[9][10]

The Warty Comb Jelly aka the Sea Walnut, people!

It has a transient anus, which means that its anus appears only when it needs to defecate and disappears after the act. There is no permanent connection between the gut and the rear of the body. Instead, as waste accumulates, part of the gut starts to balloon out until it touches the outer layer, or epidermis. The gut then fuses with the epidermis, forming an anal opening. Once excretion is complete, the process is reversed and the anus vanishes. The animals defecate at regular intervals: once an hour in the 5-centimetre-long adults, and once every 10 minutes or so in the larvae.

(I didn't actually learn this on Wikipedia, but am pleased this crucial fact made its way there so fast.)

Sea Walnut, Transient Anus (2019)

Esperanto speakers are generally disappointed by the pronunciation of the language by the cast of Incubus.[2]

His early work as a director included The Stepmother in 1972, a film that starred Alejandro Rey.[3] In 1974, he directed and produced The Teacher, shot in 12 days all around Los Angeles, on a budget of $65,000 using the investor producers home, her boat and clever use of the industrial abandoned (used mostly for location shooting ) industrial manufacturing section in east L.A., a film that starred Angel Tompkins, Jay North and Anthony James.[4][5] in 1975, he produced and directed The Fifth Floor, a film about a young lady who gets sent to the psych ward called "The Filth Floor". It starred Dianne Hull and Bo Hopkins.[6] Other films he has produced or directed include Mortuary, Separate Ways and They're Playing with Fire.[7] Crown International released the film and The Teacher has remained a popular cult film studied by film students all over the world to this day. I know because I am Angel Tompkins and I get the emails, the phonecalls, and the mail on facebook from the generation when the Teacher was released, the stories of young men keeping photos of me in their lockers, and taking them to college to keep in their dorms, and to this day, at collector shows the one sheets, posters and copied photos made from theatre press materials come from all over the world to me asking me to autograph them and their telling me, how watching the Teacher, "Got them through school and college" So in those 12 days of shooting limited budget, Marlene Schmidt and Howard Avedis did their best.and made Crown, tons of money. God bless with love Angel Tompkins In 2007, his film The Teacher s paired with The Pick Up and released on a DVD titled "Welcome to the Grindhouse: Two Sinful Shockers".[8] In May 2012, his 1983 horror film Mortuary was transferred to DVD, with special features included, in HD mastered from the original Inter-Negative. It was released by Scorpio Releasing in conjunction with Camelot Entertainment

omg

On January 22, 1989, a review of the album was published in the daily issue of the Junction City, Kansas newspaper Daily Union. The review mentioned the song, saying, "'The Promise', a hit in the United Kingdom, is typical. Starting with a piano that picks out the melody, the song throbs along electronically with clear harmonies of Mann and Farrington piercing through the catchy melody."

"Rollin'" video received the award for Best Rock Video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. On September 10, 2001 (one day before the Twin Towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack), Limp Bizkit received a letter from the World Trade Center, thanking them for featuring the towers in the video.

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"'Let's Push Things Forward' grew on me…" remarked Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. "It's forward-looking and anarchic. It has its own anti-big-company ethos, which I like. And it has strange little quirks of timing that I find very hard to use. Perhaps it will influence me in the future. I don't know. But it's nice to hear something that works which is outside your usual frame of reference."

Just in case you've never read it before, the Wikipedia entry for 'Regulate' by Warren G & Nate Dogg is possibly the greatest ever.

The evidence...https://t.co/dDi18qOIAo

— Lee Thompson (@leethommo) March 16, 2019

The way that has been wiped from the article now (because certain editors hate anything funny) is one of the worst things about wikipedia.

He is not to be confused with a British actor of the same name who is known to Star Wars' trivia buffs as "Fake Wedge" and who died in December 2012.

As a party trick aged two, he would name the whiskered military men in his father's history books of the Great War, but he never felt the love or pride from them that he did get from his grandparents, who provided a home from home.[2]

Andy Leek (born 1958) is a singer/songwriter, poet and musician, known for his work with Sir George Martin. He is an original member of Dexys Midnight Runners and played on the number one single "Geno". He has also written the single "Twist in the Dark" for Anni-Frid Lyngstad of Abba. His solo single "Say Something" reached the number 1 position in Lebanon during the civil war.

Although there are existing controversies that have taken on an international character about the origin and right of the traditional dish, these controversies have not triggered any significant consequences.

one for the english football nerds i suppose

He has, however, remained an outspoken critic of the game, and like all the Leeds United players of the Revie era, has remained fiercely protective of the reputation of both the manager and the club. He has suffered from arthritic knees in recent years.

Arnold received neither screen credit nor lines in this strange appearance, but he did have a chance to display his massive pecs.

The book was the necessary reading for the University Interscholastic League's Social Studies Competition in 2018.[7]

Reception of Idaho Transfer has been mixed. Time described it as a "very deliberate and closely controlled film graced with a slow, severe beauty that makes its quiet edge of panic all the more chilling", whereas Jay Robert Nash in The Motion Picture Guide declares it a "useless piece of drivel about an obnoxious group of teens".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel,_McCurtain_County,_Oklahoma

This building is not a very active senior citizen's center but they have been known to meet to make quilts and eat. The building is used as a polling place for residents of Bethel and the surrounding area. There are two front doors to the building that open to separate rooms. In the 1980s and prior, people voted on the east side and the votes were manually counted by people on the west side. Currently, the east side is the senior citizen's side as well as the polling place and the west side houses a workout center. The building is about a half of a mile west from the Bethel Post Office.

...which was the style at the time.

Where a Government has lost the confidence of the House of Commons, in other words has lost the ability to secure the basic requirement of the authority of the House of Commons to tax and to spend Government money, the Prime Minister is obliged either to resign, or seek the dissolution of Parliament and a new general election. Otherwise the machinery of government grinds to a halt within days. The third choice - to mount a coup d'état or an anti-democratic revolution - is hardly to be contemplated in the present age.

monocle firmly wedged in place there, tsk tsk

hardly to be contemplated, darragh

quite right quite right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Man

More recently, Wooten has developed a new electronic instrument called the RoyEl, which resembles a piano but plays notes not found in the traditional western music scales. This instrument is based on the periodic table of elements and the golden ratio.

In 2005, Wooten pleaded guilty to income tax evasion, after having been indicted on charges in 2001 that he had not filed or paid taxes between 1995 and 1998.[4] He earlier had been judged incapable of assisting in his own defense after filing incomprehensible sovereign citizen paperwork with the court.

the Just Intonation ---- Sovereign Citizen axis

See also

* Allegory
* Autobiographical novel
* Blind item
* Creative nonfiction
* Defamation
* List of narrative techniques
* Non-fiction novel
* Semi-fiction
* Small penis rule

The song humorously describes about a marriage that is obviously opposite of one in a traditional manner, particularly because the wife -- the female narrator -- fantasizes of a luxurious lifestyle. The wife explains that, after finishing a supposed hectic workday, she undergoes a feminine makeover (supposedly at a local spa). She returns to a deteriorating mobile home, where she and her husband reside, with high expectations that her husband will provide her a romantically intimate evening, only to find herself unenthusiastically preparing supper for him while he watches television and consumes beer and clearly not caring to display any sympathy towards his wife.

Black spent his summers in a cabin on Fremont Older's property in California, next to a pool.[1] When MacMillan asked Black to write another book, he was too weak even to swim, according to Mrs. Fremont Older.[1] He didn't write another book.

He has founded several startups, including Acacia Biosciences (now part of Merck & Co.)

Also he lost his laptop once.[2][3]

Etruscan had some influence on Latin, as a few dozen Etruscan words and names were borrowed by the Romans, some of which remain in modern languages, among which are possibly columna "column", voltur "vulture", tuba "trumpet", vagina "sheath", populus "people".[9]

In 1999, Lanzoni was struck in the face by a goose while riding Apollo's Chariot roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.[5][6]

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https://medium.com/@miketoole/it-has-been-twenty-years-since-fabio-killed-a-goose-with-his-face-on-a-roller-coaster-a87d51285890

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Psalmanazar

In order to travel safely and affordably in France, Psalmanazar decided to pretend to be an Irish pilgrim on his way to Rome. After learning English, forging a passport, and stealing a pilgrim's cloak and staff from the reliquary of a local church he set off, but he soon found that many people he met were familiar with Ireland and were able to discern that he was a fraud.[4] Deciding that a more exotic disguise was needed, Psalmanazar drew upon the missionary reports about East Asia that he had heard of from his Jesuit tutors and decided to impersonate a Japanese convert. At some point he further embellished this new persona by pretending to be a "Japanese heathen" and exhibiting an array of appropriately bizarre customs, such as eating raw meat spiced with cardamom and sleeping while sitting upright in a chair.

... and that's just the start of this guy's story...

According to Psalmanazar, Formosa was a prosperous country with a capital city called Xternetsa. Men walked naked except for a gold or silver plate to cover their genitals. Their main food was a serpent that they hunted with branches. Formosans were polygamous and husbands had a right to eat their wives for infidelity. They executed murderers by hanging them upside down and shooting them full of arrows. Every year they sacrificed the hearts of 18,000 young boys to gods, and their priests ate the bodies. They used horses and camels for transport, and dwelled underground in circular houses.

sounds like Ireland to me

In 2001, the grounding of aircraft following the September 11 attacks left a number of performers stranded in cities they had been performing in.[5] After the attacks, a new wave of poetry slam started within New York City with a community focus on poets coming together to speak about the terrorist attacks.[5]

yes, all those jet-setting slam poets being stranded. what a notable phenomenon

Two ways 9/11 could've been worse:

1.) If drones had been more prevalent, they would've flown them up the towers to take close-up videos of the stranded people.

2.) A large number of slam poets could've been stranded in my town for days.

Whilst Rector at Glasgow, Kane had a column at the Glasgow University Guardian which was then edited by Iain Martin. Kane's copy was the subject of two notorious edits – a reference to the scholar Raymond Williams was altered to Kenneth Williams, and the sociologist Alvin Toffler to Alvin Stardust.[3]

this article is goddamn nothing but unusual details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linx_(band)