This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Best Supporting Actress winner Maggie Smith became the only person to win an Oscar for playing an Oscar loser.

I was reading something about the SpaceX crew thingy and saw that SpaceX was considering naming a rocket "Launchy McLaunchface."

Went back a little while later and someone had edited it out. Hmph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dragon_2&diff=next&oldid=959055738

Poll!

The term Lunchables emerged from a list of possible names for the prepackaged meal that included, among others: On-Trays, Crackerwiches, Mini Meals, Lunch Kits, Snackables, Square Meals, Walk Meals, Go-Packs, and Fun Mealz

The answer to mine was The Red Skull, btw

On-Trays is quite funny

There have been three players in major league history named Aurelio (two of whom played for the Detroit Tigers), and all three were killed in car accidents between the ages of 44 and 52. See also Aurelio López and Aurelio Monteagudo.

Richard Janczarski, also known online as "Cubehead", was a self-professed disciple of Ray who styled himself the "second-wisest human."[19] From 2004, Janczarski created the Time Cube fansite Cubic Awareness Online, and an accompanying forum. In 2007, he traveled from his native Australia to Florida to meet Ray. The pair had several disagreements after going their separate ways.[20] Ray denounced Janczarski on his website after the latter's visit. Seemingly as a reaction to this criticism, Janczarski committed suicide on February 12, 2008.

There have been three players in major league history named Aurelio (two of whom played for the Detroit Tigers), and all three were killed in car accidents between the ages of 44 and 52. See also Aurelio López and Aurelio Monteagudo.

"Place nicknamed Motor City bad for car fatalities"

The film had trouble getting a distributor after its festival run, as several other male-oriented romantic comedy films were complete around the same time. The TV series Friends had also aired by the time production completed.

Explaining his decision to resign from the SRC and support the GUU's position, Fox was quoted as saying: "I'm actually quite liberal when it comes to sexual matters. I just don't want the gays flaunting it in front of me, which is what they would do."

Liam, that is.

love 2 have the gays flaunting it in front of me

I'm betting Liam's telling porkies there.

Feces are discharged through the anus or cloaca during defecation. This process requires pressures that may reach 100 millimetres of mercury (3.9 inHg) in humans and 450 millimetres of mercury (18 inHg) in penguins.[6][7]

Penguins have us thoroughly beat.

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His last words reportedly were "Channel 5 is all shit, isn't it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It's a waste of space."[10]

... oops, meant to post the whole thing

In 2003, he became ill after his evening stage performance in the touring production of Love and Marriage at Stoke-on-Trent, and died of a heart attack early the next morning, 8 March 2003, at North Staffordshire Hospital.[9] His last words reportedly were "Channel 5 is all shit, isn't it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It's a waste of space."[10]

The show centered on Brian Benben, an anchor on KYLA-TV news in Los Angeles, who was replaced in favor of a younger person. Brian was later able to return to the station as a replacement for a human interest reporter who was killed covering an ape exhibit at a zoo.

one cannot simply mention brian benben without bringing up madeleine stowe tho

nm i guess one can

DID SOMEBODY SAY BRIAN BENBEN?

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The 1976 hit song "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band was inspired by the spicy happy hour menu at Clyde's of Georgetown. Writer Bill Danoff ate at Clyde's one afternoon, then came home and told his wife that "afternoon delight" should really refer to sexual intercourse. (The song only vaguely hints at sex.)[4]

The show became a hit, being broadcast by Anglia, Border Television, Grampian Television, Tyne Tees and UTV, and resulted in the pair appearing at the opening of many British Relay TV rental shops.

Personal life
On March 8, 2020, a police report was filed against Brian Ortega for alleged slapping [Jay] Park who serves as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight fighter Chan Sung Jung's (Korean Zombie) translator and a good friend of Jung while Jung went to the bathroom at UFC 248.[221][222]

a good friend of Jung while Jung went to the bathroom

Were they friends even when Jung *wasn't* going to the bathroom?

I mean, I guess it's good to have friends when you're in the bathroom but I prefer people who are my friends all the time.

Attila was an American rock band, most notable for having featured a young Billy Joel as a member. Joel was a member of a band called The Hassles;[1] he and the drummer, Jon Small, broke away from the Hassles and formed Attila in 1969.[1] The instrumentation was organ and drums,[1] with Joel also handling the bass lines with a keyboard, similar to the Doors' Ray Manzarek. Their creative partnership ended in 1970 when Joel ran off with Small's wife, Elizabeth,[2] although this did not end their collaborations, as Small produced Joel's Концерт video as well as the Live at Shea Stadium performance.

Small's son appears on the album cover of Turnstiles.

It was ... very complicated (and also the 1970s.)

the son had a receding hairline, and a tendency to flip over keyboards at a moment's notice

Jack attended Glasgow University?

not a detail per se, but the prudishness so uptight that it explains the film title twice

Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles, whose job is to sell his body to upper-class women. His job supports and requires an expensive taste in cars and clothes and affords him a luxury Westwood apartment. He is blatantly materialistic, narcissistic and superficial. He takes pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women, offering and selling his body to women.

Unusual designs Edit
Several models of propane gas powered coffee machines are also available.

Just Our Luck attempted to recover from the bad publicity and brought in Roy Orbison, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Wink Martindale as guest stars.

well if that can't fix the problem, nothing can

Aerial footage of the scene, including a large spread consisting of laundry hanging on lines, was shot for the movie but was not used in it, and later turned up in a number of other productions, including the Republic serials Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945) and Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949), along with the Allied Artists movie The Cyclops (1957).

when your cyclops movie goes over budget and you're faced with having to cut that crucial laundry scene, having footage like that already in the can is a real lifesaver.

THIS WIKIPEDIA PAGE IS POORLY MAINTAINED.

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

First sentence:

This is a list of notable ice cream flavors.

Later on down:

Black Sabbath

BLACK SABBATH IS NOT A FUCKING NOTABLE ICE CREAM FLAVOR.

https://i.imgur.com/QGhoTQn.png

ALRIGHT NOW

There are architectural representations of each of the original 13 colonies.
The state flags of each of the original 13 states, as well as the American flag, fly in a plaza in the center of Liberty Square.
The brown pavement is meant to represent human waste (urine and excrement) since there was no indoor plumbing in colonial times.[7]

R. Bruce Hyde (September 14, 1941 – October 13, 2015) was an American educator and actor. He was professor of communication studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His academic work mainly focused on ontology, specifically ontological approach to education,[1] Martin Heidegger's contribution to communication studies,[2][3] and the study of ontological rhetoric.[4]

During his acting career Hyde played Lt. Kevin Riley in the original Star Trek series, having appeared in two episodes, "The Naked Time" and "The Conscience of the King".[5]

... one of the more irritating characters in Star Trek history.

... he's just been serenaded by Uhuru.

TS: R. Bruce Hyde on Star Trek vs. Melvin Belli on Star Trek

vs. anthony call on star trek

Cool James and Black Teacher (sometimes Cool James and the Black Teacher) were Swedish Eurodance band consisting of Cool James and Black Teacher.

lol

Jawga Boyz is an American country rap group formed in Athens, Georgia in 2003.[1] The current lineup is "D Thrash, . "BoonDock" "Cornbread" , Dez, Chris Hood, "Sloppy Jones" , "Dreadneck" .

(that is the punctuation exactly as it appears in the article)

While ostensibly an adaptation of the 1987 computer game, Maniac Mansion shares several superficial similarities with its source material, though is vastly different in terms of plot, tone and characterization.

The premise of the game, an homage to horror and science fiction B movies, follows a group of teenagers who venture into a dilapidated mansion to rescue their kidnapped friend. The mansion is inhabited by the homicidal Edison family, consisting of Dr. Fred, a deranged scientist who is possessed by an evil meteorite, his wife Edna, a sex-starved sadomasochistic nurse, their son Weird Ed, a paranoid paramilitary survivalist, and their pets Green Tentacle and Purple Tentacle, a pair of sentient, ambulatory tentacles.

Whereas the television series was produced for family television, the tone of the game was decidedly more adult, featuring much risqué black comedy and surreal violence amid LucasArts' traditional style of offbeat humor and slapstick which was entirely omitted from the television adaptation. The game's original characters are also completely absent from the series with the exception of Dr. Fred Edison, whose character was drastically changed from an insane antagonist with a balding, elderly appearance in the game to a clumsy but good-natured family man in his forties in the television show.

Lol i loved Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion

Personal life
N'Guémo is a keen falconer and keeps a modest collection of bird of prey, with his favourite, a white-tailed eagle named Mr George after George Weah.

In 2005, he fought off bankruptcy but was arrested after police were called by bailiffs who went to his home in Glossop, Derbyshire. He poured petrol on the bonnet of a bailiff's car and set it alight with the bailiff still inside.[7][8] Fontana was remanded in custody on 25 May 2007. He later appeared at Derby Crown Court dressed as Lady Justice, complete with a sword, scales, crown, cape and dark glasses, and claiming "justice is blind".[9] He dismissed his lawyers.[10] On 10 November 2007 he was sentenced to 11 months for setting fire to the car but was released because he had already served the equivalent of the term, having been held under the Mental Health Act 1983.[11]