This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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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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.

fuck, this whole article is nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengeance_Rising

A second Werewolf by Night first appeared in the third volume of Werewolf by Night and was created by Taboo of the Black-Eyed Peas, Benjamin Jackendoff, and Scot Eaton.[15]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTxbbFzaGo

The old county aristocracy would lead the way, making hay from the early adoption of this new technology.[26] But capitalism is creative destruction. The adoption of the new technology sowed the eventual demise of the old feudal landowning aristocracy. A new class of merchant-adventurers, inventors, innovators, and industrialists would slowly begin to displace the old landed fatcats

^yeah I also found that to be a weird addition to the Yahoo Serious wiki article

Aldrin reentered Eagle first, but, before ascending the ladder, he was the first human to urinate on the Moon.[91]

doesn’t count if you do it in your nappy, Buzz. write yr name in the dust or stfu

Years active: 1981-nowadays

getting a little casual there arent we, wiki info box?

The band's name is pronounced /fɪʃə ˈzɛd/ ("fisher zed"), a pun on "fish's head" with the "h" dropped, as is usual in many British regional accents. The pun also relies on leaving the "r" unpronounced as in common British non-rhotic accents.

Outside of music, Mingus published a mail-order how-to guide in 1954 called The Charles Mingus CAT-alog for Toilet Training Your Cat. The guide explained in detail how to get a cat to use a human toilet.[16][17] Sixty years later, in 2014, the late American character actor Reg E. Cathey performed a voice recording of the complete guide for Studio 360.[18]

O_0

shit, cat

The algorithm was first published in the 1979 paper "Intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces" by Cox and Zucker,[2] and it was later named the "Cox–Zucker machine" by Charles Schwartz in 1984.[1] The name is a homophone for an obscenity, and this was a deliberate move by Cox and Zucker, who conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper as graduate students at Princeton for the express purpose of enabling this joke, a joke they followed through on while professors at Rutgers five years later

According to his own account, Sax Rohmer decided to start the Dr Fu Manchu series after his Ouija board spelled out C-H-I-N-A-M-A-N when he asked what would make his fortune.

A limited edition of this album was released as a brain-shaped CD, with a bonus 2-track CD titled Somnus Pecunia Cibus.[8] The reason for the bonus disc was to include "Go to Hell", which wouldn't fit on the brain shaped CD, due to the cutting required for the brain shape.

Galaxy Records was closed down for good around 1990's due to conflict problems.

The most widely known edition of snakes and ladders in the United States is Chutes and Ladders, released by Milton Bradley in 1943. The playground setting replaced the snakes, which were disliked by children at the time

good thing the children of the USA outgrew that weird quirk!

"We sell a lot of products in the “Bag O'” line.. like Bag O’ Glass, Bag O’ Nails, Bag O’ Bugs, Bag O’ Vipers, Bag O’ Sulfuric Acid. They’re decent toys, you know what I mean?"

That is a surprisingly interesting article. I didn't know the game was so ancient.

The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil one will be reborn as lower forms of life. The number of ladders was less than the number of snakes as a reminder that a path of good is much more difficult to tread than a path of sins.

Compared to other types of insults, "your mother" insults are especially likely to incite violence.[3]

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

from Two Out of Three Ain't Bad article

The Japanese release changes the title of the song to use a percentage, translating it as "66% is good enough".[5]

Casting
Jennifer O'Neill was originally cast in the film but was told she needed to cut her hair because it would be easier to film the zero-G scenes. She gave in, drinking wine during the haircut and leaving noticeably impaired. She lost the part after a serious car crash on the way home.

wowwww. great one.

is re: The Black Hole (1979) if anyone else was wondering.

The band toured the United States and Canada in 2000, during which it had a fourth member, a giant robot guitarist named Zyclor.

xps, that haircut of Jennifer O'Neill's must have been the source of her short style in the Chuck Norris movie A Force of One. I thought that was a great look for her!

Zyclor (aciclovir) is used for the treatment of initial and recurrent mucocutaneous Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2) infections and the treatment of severe first episodes of genital herpes infections in immunocompetent individuals. It is also for the treatment of HSV encephalitis and neonatal HSV infections.

interesting name for a giant robot guitarist

does this work as a place for just strange things you've come across generally? i couldn't find a mummified cats thread ..

http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/12/18/tens-of-thousands-of-egyptian-mummies-in-english-soil/

basically tons of mummified cats were shipped over from egypt and used as fertilizer around Liverpool

(this was mentioned in passing in one of the two American Gods related short stories)

also used for paint and maybe cosmetics iirc

I've watched enough episodes of Horrible Histories to know mummies were used for all sorts.

human remains from Napoleonic battlefields were exported to England as fertilizer in the early 19th century. There was no such thing as "too soon" back then.

Posted this in the "shockingly old" thread, but I guess it fits better here:

The Country Life cover features two scantily-clad models, Constanze Karoli (sister of Can's Michael Karoli) and Eveline Grunwald (who was also Michael Karoli's girlfriend).

Away from football, during his spell with Norwich,[41] he invented a percussion instrument called The Dube,[42] a form of cajón. In 2011, he accompanied Ocean Colour Scene during a gig at the University of East Anglia.