This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Waddell's career wound through a number of teams. He was notably unpredictable; early in his career, he would often leave in the middle of a game to go fishing.[2] He also had a longstanding fascination with fire trucks, and had run off the field to chase after them during games on multiple occasions.[3] He would disappear for months at a time during the offseason, and it was not known where he went until it was discovered that he was wrestling alligators in a circus.[4] He was easily distracted by opposing fans who held up puppies, which caused him to run over to play with them, and shiny objects, which seemed to put him in a trance.[5]

That can't be real.

In July 2017, Onitsuka Tiger launched the what it publicized as the first augmented reality sneakers, but was merely an app animating the shoe's logo on a phone screen.[9]

hahahahha

Image caption: "Lee Ho Fook in London—the werewolf goes here to get beef chow mein."

Sanders had grown increasingly reclusive and depressed due to a string of tragedies including the deaths of his third wife, his mother, and his brother Tom in the space of a year, followed by a failed sausage investment, which cost him millions

The singles "Guérilla" and "Dalida" were certified Platinum :)

In the fall of 1976, vandals opened and desecrated 12 coffins and 10 urns. One crypt was completely opened and the coffin removed. The vandals opened the coffin, and placed a copy of Circus (a heavy metal music magazine) on the chest of the skeleton. The vandals also broke into a funeral niche, poured the human ashes on the floor, and drew a smiley face in them.

Would really like to know which issue of Circus that was.

In 1978 he released an album, titled 2870, equivalent to an album of Pink Floyd. Which never happened in France and will never happen again.

Sisyphus was hired to provide accompaniment for Galt MacDermot's new play, Who the Murderer Was, at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill Gate, serving as the pit band.

The wikipedia page for the 1904 Olympics Men’s Marathon might be my favourite Wikipedia page ever pic.twitter.com/4s6zJYqk1U

— Sophia (@0ldoini) April 14, 2021

our office is about 20 metres from the end point of the 1908 marathon. there's a metal line embedded in the pavement outside.

For many years, Everett co-hosted the Labor Day Jerry Lewis Telethon, which raises money and awareness for and about the affliction of muscular dystrophy.

"In 2004, Wakeman revealed that he had had an extramarital affair with American-born designer Denise Gandrup, who first met Wakeman in 1972 and made several of his capes."

https://i.imgur.com/z1H7OHU.jpg

Wouldn't surprise me to learn that the cape was a third partner in the relationship as well.

That was before marriage-advice columns warned people to be suspicious if their spouse seemed to be spending an unusual amount of time with their cape-designer.

Till death do you hem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#ADR/post-sync

Other examples include:
"Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, dubbed for Hercules in New York"

oh, THAT Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks.

non-English-speaking and non-actor seem like helpful and relevant details in context there tbf, especially for the 80% of the world's population born after those stopped being biographical details about him. applause to that editor.

it felt weird to me but ok

Dave Coulier dubbed replacement of swear words for Richard Pryor in multiple TV versions of his movies

This is Pryor's "Peckerhead" routine come to life.

I'm tired of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane.

He was virtually retired from the entertainment world and was treated like he never existed. From here on, the media would refer to him as the "former entertainer", and all the recordings and pictures taken when he was a Chanels/Rats & Star member were almost never broadcast anymore, and if they were, Tashiro's voice would be lowered to a hush or removed entirely, and no part of his body would show. Newspapers and magazines tacitly agreed not to talk about him at all.

From earlier in the wiki page:

Tashiro made his debut as a member of the group in 1980 and they came to be widely known for adopting rhythm and blues style. 4 members of the front singers including Tashiro wore blackface using shoe polish and they became famous and popular

Those crazy Japanese racists!

In 2015, Fuji TV canceled a Music Fair segment featuring Rats & Star and Momoiro Clover Z, after a photograph was circulated showing the groups in blackface.[1]

Weirdly *not* in his wiki entry, but:

Over the next 60 years, the moka pot would conquer the world. As of 2016, the New York Times notes that over 90 percent of Italian homes had one. It became so iconic that Renato Bialetti, when he died in early 2016, was actually buried in a large replica of the moka pot.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160218151356-moka-urn-exlarge-169.jpg

baller

In 2015, Fred Durst stated his interest in obtaining a Russian passport and spending half of the year in Crimea. He wrote a letter in which he stated that Vladimir Putin is "a great guy with clear moral principles and a nice person." Following that, Durst was banned by the Security Service of Ukraine from entering Ukraine for five years "in the interests of guaranteeing the security" of the country. Soon thereafter, all Limp Bizkit sales on the territory of Ukraine were prohibited.

Soon thereafter, all Limp Bizkit sales on the territory of Ukraine were prohibited.

Wow, I bet that hurt

my guy fred has always been passionate about clear moral principles

I did it all for the Putin

It's all about the he-said, Kyiv.

The song "Allentown", which brought attention to the plight of America's declining steel industry, spent an unprecedented six weeks at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983.

no easy task - already by week three or four, it was getting very hard to stay.

Well played Dr.

I just wonder who held the record for most consecutive weeks at #17 prior, and exactly what their emotional process was when they found out they’d been usurped by Allentown

Don't know about #17 but around that time "Jack and Diane" held on to #16 as long as it could

Casey Kasem must've been like "this is a mistake, right? this is another god damn mistake again, isn't it?"

Been listening to the Big Boys a bunch in the past week and just went to read up on some band history on the old wiki page and found this nugget as amazing.

"Horn player Tim Kopra became an astronaut and commander of the International Space Station. "

Mind blown...

That can't be real? If it is that's wild.

There's an archived Drowned in Sound article about him being a big fan of Echo & the Bunnymen, not totally surprising I guess!

The chorus was by performed by some U2 fans that were hanging about outside studio 3 on Windmill Lane in Dublin. There was an attempt to record the team but it was a disaster. Somebody had the great idea of using beer to loosen up the team's vocal cords.

Anthony "Anto" Drennan is credited with playing lead guitar on the single. He actually recorded it in a single take which is very unusual.

Ron Dante’s Wikipedia page is amazing. Can’t pick just one thing to post.

The extremely bright light required for filming under the Technicolor process melted the wax figures, though many characters (Queen Victoria, Disraeli, Joan of Arc) were portrayed by actors. About half of the figures are portrayed by actors. This was the plan from the start, and may have been as much out of a desire to add life-like verisimilitude to the exhibits as to protect wax mannequins from the heat.

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— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) June 25, 2021

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He has a tenor type voice and possesses almost 4 octave vocal range, with a melodic and aggressive vocal, always using the voice mix, a common technique in the musical style, but with a lot of drive, giving the impression of a torn voice in heavy songs, and a soft voice in slow songs.

Tran and Lance ride by on motorbikes and shoot Jesse dead for reneging on their bet, hitting the Volkswagen in the process.

The meaning of "Unskinny Bop" has always been shrouded in obscurity.

it means high-BMI dancing

On soul/blues singer Marvin Sease: There was a poster depicting Sease in the film, Pretty in Pink.

While the group was a ground breaking Christian metal band, today Vengeance Rising is known for vocalist Martinez's turning from Christianity to Satanism to atheism,[4] since he has continuously done interviews about it.