This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

^ comment surpasses the RDA of lol

There's not so much an unexpected detail, but more of an unexpected hyperlink on the Wikipedia entry for Foxbase Alpha:

"The album was re-released in May 2009 as part of the Universal Music Deluxe Edition re-issue program. The album has been remastered, and is accompanied by a second disc featuring B-sides, mixes and five previously unreleased tracks. The CD booklet features new sleeve notes by Jon Savage and Tom Ewing, images and memorabilia."

edit history shows the reference was added by an ilx0r, but not the link

"On 20 October 2018, by adapting a construction by Aaron Williams for constructing Hamiltonian paths through the Cayley graph of the symmetric group, Greg Egan devised an algorithm to produce superpermutations of length n! + (n−1)! + (n−2)! + (n−3)! + n − 3."

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you.

Lol josh

The Add N to (X) article sounds like it was written by a(n analogue) computer

Andrew then asked his friend Barry Smith (a former Radio Prague DJ)[3] if he too would be interested in joining.[citation needed] They then spent some time gigging under this name before a fall out which led to Anderson's departure from the band. There being only three remaining Andrew then renamed the group Add N to X, based upon a mathematical formula.[4] They kept the name but placed brackets around the X due to legal reasons.

Fellow Greek singer Nana Mouskouri paid tribute to Roussos on the French radio station RTL, saying "He had a superb voice, he travelled in the world ... he loved what he was doing... He was an artist, a friend. I hope he is in a better world."[1]

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said: “This artist left a bright mark in the world music art and made history as one of the greatest singers, whose extremely emotional manner of singing caught the hearts of listeners all over the world ..."[44]

nana mouskori’s wikipedia page is full of unusual details btw

I watched 976-EVIL tonight and wondered what had become of its OTT star (Stephen 'EvilEd' Geoffreys of Fright Night infamy) and, well

During the 1990s, Geoffreys appeared for several years in gay pornographic movies, using the alias Sam Ritter.[4][5][6]

I guess he changed his name so no one would know about his horror movie infamy.

Film critic Marco Giusti writes that Kinski "is mad, hysterical, but dominates the film", remembers the nice intrigue around Kinski's character, and praises the lesbian scenes.

Nice one, Nicko.

The song was performed by the Cockerel Chorus (the cockerel is the emblem of Tottenham Hotspur) fronted by Spiro, with Jamie Phillips singing the opening operatic part.[8] It is also the first professional recording of future Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain.

between 896 and 904 there was a new pope every year

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod which is an absolute trove of wtf Rome

Sparta was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Wikipedia

Dialing code: +30

(Not Wikipedia but the standard Google precis you get when googling Sparta)

John C. McGinley made his character's voice as deep as possible in an effort to sound like Orson Welles. He has since admitted that this was a bad idea

"In June 2011, ARK Music Factory started charging $2.99 (equivalent to $3.4 in 2019) to watch the music video on YouTube" - I'm not sure you need to show the inflation adjusted number when it's only 8 years old.

It'll be even more fascinating in three years when people click through to see it now costs $7.43

In his 2010 book Music: What Happened?, critic and musician Scott Miller declared that the song possesses "one of the best hooks of the eighties" and listed it among his top song picks for 1984. Nonetheless, he cautioned: "It must be admitted that this song suffers from an embarrassingly out-of-place disco funk interlude, and the word Kriegsminister."[21]

Scott Miller is totally wrong about the disco funk interlude in "99 Luftballons"

In the US, the English-language version did not chart, while the German-language recording became Nena's only US hit.

I did not know that. If only the English version had been a hit in the US (was #1 in the UK) he wouldn't have been able to complain about 'Kriegsminister' either.

Rappin' is a 1985 film directed by Joel Silberg, written by Adam Friedman and Robert J. Litz, produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and starring Mario Van Peebles. The film is a sequel to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, and is also known as Breakdance 3: Electric Boogalee. Although it features Ice-T (who featured in Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo), Rappin' has a plot unconnected to the previous two films and features different lead characters and locations. The film has developed a small cult following, despite Van Peebles' lack of rapping ability and the film's overall poor production values.

citation not needed imo

If it's a sequel to part 2, then why is it not part 3?

FWIW the first Breakin' movie is important to me because when it came out, my family ran a dance school and needed to be hip to all the trends.

Also we watched every dance movie. There is a whole camon of these,, with persistent conventions. like the "training montage." Sports and martial arts movies all hd training montages, but I submit that those are derivative of dance movie training montages.

By law, every dance movie has a big audition scene that starts off with skeptical and stuffy judges who are gradually won over by the sheer street RAWNESS of the edgy maverick protagonist dancer(s), who subvert the judges' classicism preconceptions of what dance can be.

Fame has this scene, so does Breakin'. The cliche reaches its zenith with Save the Last Dance for Me, effectively satirized in the Onion here:

https://entertainment.theonion.com/dancer-risks-everything-1819569738/amp

Like, this is literally the plot of at least ten movies:

school administrators are still baffled as to where such a talented ballet dancer could have learned a second form of dancing, some speculate Lisbon may have ventured out into the rough but vibrant neighborhoods surrounding the private academy.

"I can only assume that Cassie must have visited one of the local nightclub establishments where teens hang out and perform spontaneous, elaborately choreographed one-on-one dance competitions to the music of a young gentleman named Soulja Boy, among others," head instructor James Tillingford said. "Of course, there's no way Cassie could have infiltrated this subculture, unless she entered a biracial relationship with a young man who wanted a better life for himself than stealing cars and playing ball, someone who could teach her how to let go of her formal training—along with the pain of her mother's untimely death—and just let it flow so she could, in turn, convince his hardened, cynical friends that she was 'not bad for a white girl.'"

The only student in the history of the form to realize that ballet is incapable of expressing a whole range of different but equally true emotions, Lisbon said the road to popping and locking onstage wasn't an easy one. At times, Lisbon admitted, she felt like giving up and just performing the highly technical routine of graceful leaps and spins she had been training for over the last decade.

If it's a sequel to part 2, then why is it not part 3?

"Rappin' has a plot unconnected to the previous two films and features different lead characters and locations" is a pretty good reason. Also, it appears to be more about rappin', and less about breakin'.

Makes more sense than:

First Blood
Rambo
Rambo 3
Rambo
Rambo: Last Blood

Um, can we discuss the term "boogalee," because that is definitely the weirdest thing about that film's title, y'all.

That was the main detail I believe warrants no citation, inasmuch as someone has put it into the wikipedia to be funny.

The DVDs being sold of it use the term, too.

dammit I said no citations!

looks like that is only on one budget-price UK licensor's DVD release, and almost nothing in their catalogue uses key art or official logos, so imo it's safe to shift to "someone at the office, or the bloke who photoshops their sleeves for beer money, thought it was funny"

It's often deemed a racist slur!

ohhh yikes

Cy Curnin is dancing in a classy navy blue double-breasted suit and open-necked white shirt. He is then in a bright tube, wearing a gray sleeveless shirt with his arms and shoulders exposed. Then, in a blue tunnel, he is running with a dog.

In May 2007, Sandy Smith had launched an essay writing competition, asking entrants to attempt to prove that Junior could be considered the greatest film of all time. He obsessively started collecting copies of the film in November 2005, and eventually collected 24 copies. In February 2008, despite Sunday Herald covering the story,[11] the competition received fewer entries than there were prizes offered.

Was the prize a copy of Junior?

the criterion collection version

Originally named "Theo's Zoo bar" after the head bouncer and before the reputation of an underage venue the Zoo bar was one of the first "indie" clubs in halifax. It was classed as an alternative club where people classed the customers as slightly weird. The Djs played classics like "light my fire" the Doors_ "sympathy for the devil" the stones. Etc. later filling the dancefloor to tunes by the latest indie gods such as Suede, pulp etc. Characters always filled the club. There was "roller guy" who wore roller boots and took photos all night, "daddy Acid" who used to walk around with a bowl of fruit (apparently laced with Acid tabs). It was a real hive and buzzing place of individual clubbers.

Yorkshire or Nova Scotia?

I’m now imagining this Cat Marnell character there, spraypainting away

#onethread

Deans died of congestive heart failure in Cleveland, Ohio on July 11, 2003 at the age of 68. Rather than being interred with Garland, his body was cremated and his ashes were sent to an unidentified person in Florida.[citation needed]

Wilfred Brimley:

Prior to a career in acting, he dropped out of high school at age 14 and worked as a cowboy in Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. He joined the Marines during the Korean War and served in the Aleutian Islands for three years. He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes

It sold at auction in 2004 for £744,800, which was the record at the time for any Scottish painting, and for any painting ever sold in Scotland.

Just so we're clear

Walter died on August 21, 2020, at the age of 71, from complications arising from liver and lung cancer. Despite some publications incorrectly reporting Walter's death as the 22nd, he actually died on August 21st, 2020.

between 1970 and 1972, Li worked at an army horse farm; from 1972 to 1978, was a trumpet player in a forest police unit in Jilin Province

The album was almost titled "Pink Champagne" with cover art of a pink galaxy, but they thought it sounded too much like Drake.

David was also active in extreme blues maniacs[citation needed] Dubplate Connection

I removed the anagrams of her name, which were neither relevant, remarkable, nor deliberate. There are endless anagrams of people's names, and there are websites dedicated to such anagrams should anyone really be interested. --Shantavira 17:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

And the anagrams in question:

Allegra Coleman anagrams include "real gal, lame con", "a lamer clone gal", and "gal all a mere con".

Don Henley of the Eagles played drums for the band during the 1989 AMA show while Adler was in rehab.

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun
Well, yeah

Lonely Hend
Needy Lohn
“En”holy End
need LY, hon?

When SSB discovered that semen made a good invisible ink, his agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver. It also raised questions over the masturbatory habits of the agents.