This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

i googled and haha what?

Googled too, because I had nothing and, nope, never would have gotten there.

Ok then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters#Honorary_members

I would pay a lot of money to see an exhibition match featuring the surviving members.

They all had Comedy Central Roasts?

the Bad Sex Writing award

I just posted the answer above.

oh shit you weren't kidding

So there was once a time where Henry Kissinger and nobody else was an honorary Globetrotter?

Carman in concert at Kingman First Assembly. Joshua and I went to the concert, it wasn' t much singing, but it was about helping people come to God so that was a good thing.

America's Next Top Model

Ratzinger gets ratzed again!

In 1976, the Board of Directors of the Harlem Globetrotters were sitting around the conference room table to discuss Agenda Item #1: who to appoint as the franchise's first-ever Honorary Globetrotter. The chairman asks, "are you all thinking of who I'm thinking of?" and they look at each other for a moment nodding and grinning before all shouting out in perfect unison, "Henry Kissinger!!!"

Yoda was named as the oldest mouse in 2004 at age 4.[112]

Subsequently, Martha Stewart dated Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter.[89][90]

she really just liked Brian Cox better

His debut album in 1969 reached number eight on the British charts[11] and his follow-up single, "Frozen Orange Juice", reached number 10 in the UK in 1969.[15][16] However, subsequent releases failed to chart. Sarstedt recorded songs include "Beirut", "Take Off Your Clothes", and "I Am a Cathedral"

You are a church
I'm a cathedral
Take off your clothes
I'll show you my steeple

Ghost's Satanic theme has proven problematic for the group, especially in the United States. While recording Infestissumam in Nashville, Tennessee, they were unable to find choral singers who would sing their lyrics, forcing them to record the parts in Hollywood.

Important clarification

The Importance of Being Idle (song)

Noel got the title from the book of the same name, which he found whilst cleaning out a garage (it belonged not to him

One of the albums to receive the "Parental Advisory" sticker was Frank Zappa's Grammy-winning album Jazz from Hell, presumably for the use of the word "Hell" in its title but also for the song "G-Spot Tornado", even though it is a collection of instrumental pieces and contains no lyrics at all.

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

He recorded with Moondog, and was also for one night in 1981 a member of the English post-punk band Public Image Ltd.

it was a night worth living for

Rufus finds the two teenagers struggling to finish their history paper, which tasks them to describe how three historical figures would view the present San Dimas, trying to obtain help from customers at a local Circle K convenience store. Rufus initially has difficulty convincing the two of his help when a copy of the phone booth time machine arrives, and versions of Bill and Ted from some hours in the future step out. They are able to convince their earlier selves that Rufus can be trusted by correctly guessing the number the two were thinking of: 69 (the sex number).

fun fact: Joan of Arc was played by Jane Weidlin

In 1996, “Geritol” was the punchline of a joke in season 1, episode of the sitcom Moesha starring Brandy.

(seen on Twitter)

Great line in the Wikipedia article for ‘Australia-Japan relations’

There was some tension in the early stage of the relationship, such as World War II,

About the band Audience:

Years later people would listen to Axl Rose of Guns'n'Roses and find that Audience was ahead of its time. They were making music in the 1970s that would be "emulated" by bands like Guns'n'Roses. They were ahead of their time. Axl and the lead singer of Audience are almost indistinguishable except for the time warp.

Highly subjective and highly wrong.

Having hygienic means for anal cleansing available at the toilet or site of defecation is important for overall public health. The absence of proper materials in households can, under some circumstances, be correlated to the number of diarrhea episodes per household.[3]

Initially, the album (Mr Bad Guy by Freddie Mercury) was supposed to feature duets with Mercury and Michael Jackson ... sources state that Mercury dropped out of any future collaboration after feeling uncomfortable working with Jackson’s pet llama in the studio.

Does Wiktionary count?

Feist typically adds a negative moral judgment to the description, implying gluttony, laziness, and/or unrightful wealth. For example, ein feister Kapitalist (“a fat capitalist”).

Was scouring Feist's - the singer, not the fat, nor Raymond Feist - wiki for a droll comment on the same thread that brought you there lol

Any connecting with feisty?

That was my assumption at first but her last name is Feist. Then again, I'm sure she knows about the connection and is cool with it.

Welk was awarded four US design patents:

A musically themed restaurant menu[32]
An accordion-themed tray for serving food at a restaurant[33]
An accordion-themed tray for serving food at a restaurant[34]
An accordion-themed ashtray [35]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTlR1pXrcCCtFIG_0HU3Sb-ZAuW-4WaGU_mbQ&usqp=CAU

something about this sentence

Hamnett died in 1956 from complications after falling out of her apartment window and being impaled on the fence forty feet below.

complications of being impaled on a fence

initially, her prognosis was better, until we found out she was missing all of her internal organs

then she was downgraded to "critical"

Sounds like her doctors were "on the fence" for awhile!

"you have been diagnosed with...complications"

On November 30, 2017, there was a massive fire that destroyed and damaged 21 buildings that caught the attention of national media.[10] An amateur blacksmith, attempting to mimic the show Forged in Fire, started a barrel fire to forge with before losing control of it.

Wow, looking up Sousa I learned a couple of good 'uns:

Sousa ranked as one of the all-time great trapshooters and was enshrined in the Trapshooting Hall of Fame. He organized the first national trapshooting organization, a forerunner to today's Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA). He also wrote numerous articles about trapshooting. He was a regular competitor representing the Navy in trapshooting competitions, particularly against the Army. Records indicate that he registered more than 35,000 targets during his shooting career. "Let me say that just about the sweetest music to me is when I call, 'pull,' the old gun barks, and the referee in perfect key announces, 'dead'."

In his 1902 novella The Fifth String, a virtuoso violinist makes a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. The first four strings excite the emotions of Pity, Hope, Love, and Joy, but the fifth string, made from the hair of Eve, will cause the player's death once played. The violinist wins the love of the woman he desires, but out of jealous suspicion, she commands him to play the death string, which he does. He published Pipetown Sandy in 1905, which includes a satirical poem titled "The Feast of the Monkeys". He wrote a 40,000-word story entitled "The Transit of Venus" in 1920. He also wrote the booklet "A manual for trumpet and drum", published by the Ludwig drum company with advice for playing drums and trumpet. An early version of the trumpet solo to "Semper Fidelis" was included in this volume.

Sousa held a very low opinion of the emerging recording industry and he derided recordings as "canned music", a reference to the early wax cylinder records that came in can-like cylindrical cardboard boxes. He argued to a congressional hearing in 1906:

"These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy… in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape".

The Amityville Terror August 2, 2016 Michael Angelo
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Amityville Exorcism January 3, 2017 Mark Polonia Billy D'Amato
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Central_High

Alternative version

The Italian version of this film, called Sexy Jeans, was edited with pornographic inserts.[9]

Dunking

In Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, one of the narrator's childhood memories sets in while tasting a madeleine dunked in tea. The soft, spongy consistency of the madeleine could seem like an odd choice as dunking is more common with crisp baked products, such as biscuits. In fact, draft versions of Proust's manuscript reveal that the author initially had the narrator dunk a piece of toasted bread

The band released debut album Vibrate You in May 2001 and follow-up Who Do You Love? in March 2004. The band was notable for their short, riotous live shows and built a small, dedicated fanbase, which, at present day, consists of one person, name unknown.

Hahaha

vg+

From the entry for Russell Webb (bass player for the Skids / Public Image Ltd)

Webb retired from performing to design board games. Following a discussion with Richard Branson at the latter's knighthood party, Branson agreed to take Webb's first board game (4 years in the making) entitled Lost to Necker Island for play testing with his family and children. The play testing was a success, but no game was released. Instead it became the initial inspiration for JJ Abrams' hit TV show Lost, for which Webb was never credited

lol that's great