This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

doesn't romp and its attendant implication of fun predate "romper room"

ladies, tbf, in the worst case ive read

ulster scots of course imo

I imagine so.

xp im sure it does but id never seen/heard "romper room" used in another context (may even be imagining ever hearing it in any context tbf) but even if only in my head its def a concrete janitors room they beat you to death in on sandy row

just a bit of fun eh

tbf ive skimped the most unpleasant details

On 19 August, the prime minister wrote an inflammatory letter to the President of the European Council, hilariously describing the agreement that he had previously voted for as "anti-democratic", and not consistent with his interpretation of "sovereignty". Despite the backstop explicitly being agreed as a temporary measure, he continued to highlighted that it was "inconsistent" with the UKs desired final destination for it's relationship with the EU. He also suggested that, despite Northern Ireland voting to remain in the EU, that this agreement would somehow undermine the Northern Ireland Peace process. Following much laughter, Mr. Tusk reminded Mr. Johnson that those opposing the arrangement without "realistic alternatives" supported re-establishing a hard border on the island of Ireland.

(Sorry for polluting yet another thread with this garbage)

Richards is a keen fan of shepherd's pie, a British traditional dish.[78] Stuart Cable, the ex-drummer of Stereophonics, recollected that he was once confronted by Richards because he had served himself a piece of the shepherd's pie meant for Richards.[79] The dish was also mentioned by Richards in his autobiography, advising readers to add more onions after cooking the meat filling to enhance the pie's flavour.[78]

what exactly did Cable choke to death on?

Although one of the highest bridges in the US, exactly how high the main span is above ground still remains up in the air. When it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1967, this distance was cited as 650’ over the Rio Grande.[9] And today that number is still widely used.[10][11] In 2010 however, the Highest Bridges Web Site came out with a substantially lower (565’) figure.[3] This height was most likely derived using a laser range finder but the site did not specifically reference it that way.[12] Wikipedia used this 565’ figure in 2012 when updating its List of bridges in the United States by height, but kept the 650’ (200 meter) figure for the bridge in its Rio Grande del Norte National Monument article. And then in 2015, a height of 600’ appeared on the scene.

Also, kudos to how high the main span is above ground still remains up in the air.

a chicken-salad sandwich with roasted red peppers on a pumpernickel baguette,

this sounds p good

While the provinces' delegates spent little time, if any, in settling on Canada as the name for the new country, others proposed a variety of other names:[25][2]

Anglia – the medieval Latin name for England
Albionoria – 'Albion of the north'
Borealia – from borealis, the Latin word for 'northern'; compare with Australia
Cabotia – in honour of Italian explorer John Cabot, who explored the eastern coast of Canada for England
Colonia
Efisga – an acronym of English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Aboriginal
Hochelaga – an old name for Montreal
Laurentia
Mesopelagia – 'land between the seas'
New Albion
Norland
Superior
Tupona – derived from The United Provinces of North America
Transatlantica
Ursalia – 'place of bears'
Vesperia – 'land of the evening star'
Victorialand – in honour of Queen Victoria

Imagine if this country had been named 'Superior'. Everything would be completely different.

colonia

moosalia

"Efisga" is mindshattering

anyway poll

I agree, gonna start a poll right now

The French-language Wikipédia article on bilingualism in Ottawa is dramatically different from the English one and may be the most opinionated Wikipedia article I've ever read, concluding:

Enfin, cette situation linguistique du français à Ottawa est humiliante pour de nombreux francophones du Canada (et en particulier ceux qui ne parlent pas l'anglais, nombreux au Québec) qui se rendent dans la capitale fédérale. Cela risque de favoriser donc le séparatisme québécois.[réf. nécessaire]

"Ultimately, the linguistic status of French in Ottawa is humiliating for the many Canadian francophones who find themselves in the national capital (especially those who do not speak English, who are numerous in Quebec). This may encourage Quebec separatism [citation needed]."

He published a book that was banned in Suriname and misunderstood in the Netherlands.[1]

For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. Lee Hazlewood shot a guy in 1963.

Haraszthy was a writer in German (which he spoke from birth [dubious - discuss])

The film was released on VHS in 1988 by MCA Home Video and contains a trailer for the film Positive I.D. at the end.

In March 1999, Manser successfully passed Kuching immigration by disguising himself in a business suit, carrying a briefcase, and wearing a badly knotted tie.

The album went head to head with heavy metal band Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone on the Billboard 200 albums chart, seeing that both albums were released on August 22, 2008, therefore both albums were competing for the number one spot on the Billboard 200. LAX ended up debuting at number two on the Billboard 200, at first, it looked like LAX had debuted ahead of All Hope Is Gone by 13 copies. Initially, Billboard published an article stating that The Game had secured the top spot with a margin of 13 units, in what was described as the "closest race for number one since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking Data in 1991". Slipknot's labels Warner Music Group and Roadrunner Records asked for a SoundScan recount, a historic first. Nielsen proceeded to the recount, which placed LAX at number two with 238,382 copies, and Slipknot in the first position with 239,516 copies scanned, a margin of 1,134 copies. After the recount 12 hours later, the article was rewritten and Slipknot was awarded the number one spot

So many gems in this article.

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

Homosexual behavior is quite common in wild marmots.[77] (NOTE THE FOOTNOTE #)

After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. (I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE AND I DISAPPROVE)

In captivity, they have been observed to sometimes perform homosexual and heterosexual penetration of the blowhole, a hole homologous with the nostril of other mammals, making this the only known example of nasal sex in the animal kingdom.[65][66]

nasal sex in the animal kingdom

fake stereolab song titles

definitely a collaboration with NWW

oh god yes, i can hear it now

not so much a detail, but if you scroll down to the bottom of the Buffalo '66 article, you'll find that the film is rolled into the extended Buffalo Bills NFL Franchise extended cinematic universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_%2766

Derek landy was very good at his job being a author. He had won the red house children award. This helped him in his career.

Waugh also merits a mention in the history of reggae music. The success of the movie adaptation of Island in the Sun and the Harry Belafonte title track provided inspiration as well as the name for the successful Island Records record label.

Dimension Films chief Bob Weinstein demanded musical changes after being dissatisfied with Ottman's score, instating the song "What's This Life For" by rock music group Creed, which is featured in the film during a party sequence and also during the end credits.

Halloween H20?

ya

Today is the feast of St Gerard Majella, patron of

Children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers; tennis ball football, head boys and Muro Lucano, Italy

She was an avid tennis player, and once played with Milton Friedman despite the fact that it was snowing.[1]

people you wish had beaten each other to death with tennis rackets

I thougt that said St. Gerard Malanga there for a second, who'd be a perfectly fine patron saint of good confessions and lay brothers

kickstarter to canonise every one of pope andy's superstars

1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's Tusk), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delanoë, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry.

In 1950, while living in the U.K., he fathered future Average White Band drummer, Robbie McIntosh. Colleano was not married to McIntosh's mother.

The band's name came from a sugar packet Mould noticed while eating at a diner with the other two members.

For much longer than was reasonable, I was imagining 'Hüsker Dü sügar'

what a run-on sentence:

On October 16th 2019, in an interview with Loudwire and Consequence of Sound, Necrobutcher revealed that he also had had plans to kill Euronymous [who was killed first by Varg Vikernes] since he was disgusted by Euronymous's treatment of Dead, and in that same interview he spoke about the Lords of Chaos movie, saying that the movie saddened him, expressing that he did not like it, although he was surprised that Hollywood cared about Mayhem enough to make the movie, and he also objected to the movie because it was based on the Lords of Chaos book, which he described as "the worst book ever".

Whatever position is adopted, care must be taken (e.g. by having the recipient's legs kept together) not to strike the back of the genitals.

From the Murry Wilson article

The original Megatron was the leader and warlord of the Decepticons, a fictional faction of sentient self-configuring modular extraterrestrial robotic lifeforms from the planet Cybertron.

Yeah, what a needless modifier, everyone knows the real-life Decepticons are lead by Shockwave.