This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Maybe it was the same piano

Santa with Muscles is a 1996 American Christmas comedy film starring Hulk Hogan, produced by the Shuster brothers, co-produced executively by The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort and directed by John Murlowski.

In August 1999, MGM board member Francis Ford Coppola was brought in by MGM to supervise another re-editing of the film costing $1 million at his American Zoetrope facility in Northern California. This work included digitally placing Bassett's and Spader's faces on the bodies of (a computer-tinted) Tunney and Facinelli, so that their characters could enjoy a love scene.

What movie is that?

Supernova - a very dire "we picked up this creepy guy marooned on a creepy planet" movie, rendered barely coherent due to the above-cited shenanigans and more, at least from the half of it that i've seen.

Mr. McNabb, a retired police officer, related that in his opinion the murder was carried out by a somnambulist who was therefore unaware of the deed. He had never ventured this opinion officially for fear of being laughed out of the force.[4]

Mangling presses the fiber ends back onto the fiber, so that the clothes remain clean longer. This could potentially reduce dust approximately 10 to 60 times however this is not confirmed.

Can we get some confirmation on that please

'Kim Jong-il was frustrated with his films in the early 1970s. He could tell that in contrast to the other films being released globally, his were stiff and lifeless. His diagnosis was a lack of enthusiasm from his actors and crew.'

At the height of the country and western boom in the UK in 1976, he had top forty pop chart hits with "You're My Best Friend" and "I Recall a Gypsy Woman".[10]

Was there a country & western boom in the UK in 1976? I don't have any stats to back it up but I think it is true that country artists stopped having hits in the UK in the 80s/90s and have never sold much since?

Development was directed by Tez Okano, who developed the game in secret for two years before presenting it to Sega. The company misconstrued the game as a joke at first and dismissed it, however a second presentation impressed them and allowed development to continue. Okano marketed the game himself with a small budget of $200, half of which he spent on a wrestling mask to conceal his identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Aardvark?wprov=sfti1

The cartoon follows attempts of a blue aardvark named Aardvark (sometimes he claims he's an anteater) (voiced by John Byner,[1][2][3] impersonating comedian Jackie Mason), to catch and eat a red ant named Charlie (also voiced by John Byner,[1][2][3] but impersonating Dean Martin)

Cosmic Psychos guitarist Robbie Watts died from 1. a heart attack (beginning of the page), 2. a heroin overdose (middle of the page) and 3. a heart attack (end of the page).

His daughter is a teacher in New York City and his son is a very successful business man. His Irish talents are passed on to the rest of his family. His very successful son plays a guitar and his other daughter sings. The successful son’s son is a Boston University graduate and plays piano. Then his daughters kids play Gaelic Football and the girls play tin whistle and guitar. The son also plays the button accordion. Needless to say, the Irish culture has been passed down to another generation.

Cast

Suliane Brahim: Laurène Weiss
Hubert Delattre: Martial Ferrandis
Laurent Capelluto: Franck Siriani
Samuel Jouy: Bertrand Steiner
Renaud Rutten: Louis Hermann
Tiphaine Daviot: Camille Laugier (season 1)
Anne Suarez: Lea Steiner
Naidra Ayadi: Leila Barami
Camille Aguilar: Cora Weiss
Brigitte Sy: Sabine Hennequin
Dan Herzberg: Gaspard Bellan
Cyrielle Debreuil: Anna Delambre
Thomas Doret: Rudy Guerin
Olivier Bonjour: Gerald Steiner (season 1-2)
Théo Costa-Marini: Roman Barthélémy
Samir Boitard: Paul Méric
Jean-Michel Balthazar: Maître Caubere
Pascal Elso: Pierre Winkler (Season 1)
Serge Riaboukine (Season 2)
Marina Hands: Delphine Garnier (season 2)
Guinea pig - Peanut. In both seasons

If Peanut's not in it, I ain't watching.

The soundtrack album was intended to be released on multicolored liquid-filled vinyl, but problems with the manufacturing process prevented it.

Butts later[when?] invented another game titled simply Alfred's Other Game; it never achieved the commercial success of Scrabble.[citation needed]

Players are called upon to pelt mutant artificial Christmas trees with snowballs, while avoiding the elves interspersed between the garishly colored mutant trees.[2][3] Mutant trees emerge from boxes that are marked "100% Fake" or "Made in China".[4] The trees, as the game says, have "mutated and are sucking the spirit out of Christmas".[2] The game features an "Xmas Spirit Meter" light which dims for every mutant tree missed or elf hit by mistake.[5] Between rounds the game provides "facts" about Christmas trees,[6] or, depending on your point of view, "didactic little warnings about the evils of fake trees".[1]

The one armed Wampa is seen again in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). It tries to get its revenge on Luke, but it gets cut in half and dies.

Hahaha

Not recognized among the bands of their day, they are still a charming reminder of the New Wave era.

The fist on the album cover would originally be Tate's own fist, but a different hand model was used because Tate wanted a more masculine-looking fist with hair on the knuckles.[25]

Barenboim worked to keep his relationship with Bashkirova hidden from du Pré, and believed he had succeeded.

Peter Gabriel initially wanted Dolly Parton to duet with him on "Don't Give Up"

Got here by looking up the drummer on Jagged Little Pill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Laug

Matt appeared briefly as the drummer on the debut album of Michael Michael in high school. With hits White Guys and Dear Mr. Santa, cassette sales pushed the album to Double Plastic status.

The waste hot water from the Dungeness nuclear power stations is pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.[citation needed]

gosh wonder which power stations' administrator could possibly be the source

that enriched biological productivity in full

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also i've been reading a lot about river ecosystems and pollution this week, and i could easily imagine that "biological productivity" just means that raising the temperature of the water facilitates a profusion of bacteria, which is actually bad for marine ecosystems, since they'll deplete all the available oxygen.

I stumbled upon it looking up Dungeness' shingle beach. And then this afternoon on the radio I heard they're planning to dump Fukushima's radioactive water out into sea as well.

Albee Square West is also the name of a street that originates at Albee Square. It carries northbound traffic for one block from Fulton Street at its southern end to Willoughby Street at itn end, Albee Square West becomes Gold Street, a one-way southbound street that continues north for two blocks to Myrtle Avenue. Both the mixed-use City Point development and the proposed One Willoughby Square development are located on Albeebuttsbigstinkyones−maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Albee+Square+W,+Brooklyn,+NY+11201/@40.6902111,-73.9868246,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25a4b56350787:0x420477a7223ab20d!8m2!3d40.6909921!4d-73.9834879%7Ctitle=Albee Square W|access-date=November 16, 2018}}</ref>

The theme song of the film, written by Cliff was actually a ballad depiction of how Cliff was in real life, the lyrics "he walks tall with his head held high, before he backs down he would rather die, he's a mean machine, none tougher than, the man, man, man, man-cunian man!" were EXACTLY how Cliff lived his life. To those who REALLY knew him, rather than those who knew him vaguely or claimed to know him; his true friends who lived day by day, shoulder to shoulder with him through the 1980s and into the 1990s saw him live by his words and actually led by example, often daring to venture where others genuinely feared to tread.

Cliff took a short break in December 1985 and January 1986 when he was invited to join his friend Brian in Iceland, this is where Brian was co-producing a play, Trafford Tanzi with Jon Paul Baldwinsson of the Icelandic National Theatre. It was there that Cliff met Brian's old friend and 4 time World's Strongest Man, [Jon Pall Sigmarsson]. More information is on the web site www.bs-v.tv which is the official website of one Cliff's closest friends through the 1980s and into the 1990s, Brian Sterling-Vete; Cliff's other great friend Stuart Hurst should also be consulted as he also worked super-closely with Cliff right through to the very end.

(People whose friend Brian have obviously written their Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D)

that whole wikipedia entry is a baffling work of art

a friend has found and ordered a copy of the novel of The Pike after I pointed him to this Wikipedia entry! He also found this picture

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1533564986979018786.png

The Gizmodo article about the film is pretty good: https://io9.gizmodo.com/joan-collins-nearly-starred-in-this-movie-about-a-kille-1744451146

man I should be more careful with my mighty powers of influence

hah he's a sucker for Shaun Hutson-style horror schlock, you've done us all a favour!

In 2015, after receiving criticism for insulting the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic in a music video, El Alfa was sentenced to 15 days of community service. The President of El Instituto Duartino, Cesar Romero called for the boycott and destruction of El Alfa's albums for having disrespected the founding fathers. Part of El Alfa's sentencing was to clean the Plaza de la Bandera and to sing the national anthem for two hours for fifteen consecutive days. Additionally, El Alfa was ordered to hand out educational pamphlets about the founding fathers at traffic lights in Santo Domingo. He considered the situation a misunderstanding.

On the television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), Phillips played the dual role of Talon aka Hannah Foster. With this role, Phillips became the first female to play a crow on screen.[3]

Hahaha

Capitalization man

Either way, it’s hardly a milestone.

At age 13, he survived the 1944 Hartford circus fire which killed 169 people in Connecticut, and he never sat in an audience again throughout the remainder of his life. Because of the event's trauma, he rarely attended theater, stating that the large crowds reminded him of what happened that day.

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(the image used to show the 16-color capability of the Commodore Vic 20)

Definitely got trump's skin tones

Is the Hartford Circus Fire about Charles Nelson Reilly or Hal Blaine?

I immediately assumed Blaine.

Thanks a bunch, Johnny Crawford.

Crawford had a key role in the early career of entertainer Victoria Jackson, of Saturday Night Live fame. After the two appeared together in a summer stock production of Meet Me in St. Louis, he presented her with a one-way ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a Hollywood career.

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft:

The aircraft was extensively modified for NASA by Boeing in 1976.[2] While first-class seats were kept for NASA passengers, its main cabin and insulation were stripped,[3] mounting struts were added, and the fuselage was strengthened. Vertical stabilizers were added to the tail to aid stability when the Orbiter was being carried. The avionics and engines were also upgraded, and an escape tunnel system similar to that used on Boeing's first 747 test flights was added. The flight crew escape tunnel system was later removed following the completion of the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) because of concerns over possible engine ingestion of an escaping crew member.

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