This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Looking for Stryper and finding St. Vitus in the same bin... how many times has this happened

Nesmith's last contractual Monkees commitment was a commercial for Kool-Aid and Nerf balls in April 1970

She chooses to experiment with upbeat, unconventional sounds to produce unique songs that connect to her personal life experiences.[24] She gains her inspiration and love for music from various artists such as Still Woozy, SZA, and John Mayer.[26]

The hard candy metaphor suggests that life can simultaneously be hard and sweet.

CITATION NEEDED

The phrase "fine and dandy" suggests that the singer will become an idle young man with a striking personal appearance & a quasi-religious devotion to fashion

^this

Oh wait, I thought that was about "Sweet and Dandy."

George Sanders

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...

I have definitely posted that before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygsqylwrh04

Gotta be a "sausage king of Chicago" joke in there

Europeans OTM.

The final photo on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames

reading through the entirety of

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

really taxed my brain

xp Deserves to be on the Real England thread.

There was also a limited edition "Slime Pack" planned, which was never released after several packs leaked before shipping and the slime-substance was found to be toxic.

To avoid problems with European censors, Borkon cautioned Franju not to include too much blood (which would upset French censors), refrain from showing animals getting tortured (which would upset English censors) and leave out mad-scientist characters (which would upset German censors).

In 2021, after complex work, Kilmer's voice was able to be re-created through AI technology using archival audio of his voice.

On Guitar Slim, with no further explanation:

He got together with Muddy Waters in Los Angeles, California, for some lively playing.[10]

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His childhood home was the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As a teenager, he attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, where his classmates included actor Wallace Shawn.[4]

(More unusual details follow)

Further novels in the Rennie Stride series are California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop (May 2009), Love Him Madly: Murder at the Whisky (March 2010), A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (January 2011), Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock (November 2012), and Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East (December 2014). The most recent in the series is Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock&Roll (published March 2016).

LOL

On French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon, White Mane:

He also invented the strategic board game Risk in 1957.

damn!

travelling back on the rennie stride clue-trial a bit carelessly i was briefly persuaded that these books are the work of the legendary PAT BAG formerly of THE BAGS -- which seemed genuinely like a bogdanoff twins arc tbh :(

The film was shot in Ireland to exploit tax breaks and local resources. [2] The film was also involved in a defamation suit between Dennis Hopper and Rip Torn where Hopper publicly stated Torn pulled a knife on him on the set of Easy Rider back in the 60s. Hopper's representatives tried to settle the defamation suit by floating the offer of a supporting role in Space Truckers which Torn's representatives refused.[3]

Torn missed out on meeting Stevolende!

Loool! I had to look that one up. Is there only the one post?

The band were also affected by the death during the sessions of their friend Gram Parsons: on the day before Parsons' death, he and Richman had played miniature golf and discussed recording together.

!!!

I knew about the connection but not about that very last part.

What, the miniature golf or the recording together? I can't help but be more excited about the former tbh.

Ha, both but really the first of those tbh.

The music video was an unintended spoof of the music video for the single "Feel So Good" by rapper Mase,

I always thought the word spoof implied... intent?

From the Bowie wiki regarding the Diamond Dogs tour, which apparently had an enormous theatrical production thing going on:

Other props worked as expected: for the song "Big Brother", Bowie sang while atop a multi-mirrored glass "asylum", emerging during the next song ("Time") sitting in the palm of a giant hand covered in small light bulbs.[1]

The show in Tampa, Florida, was performed without any of the stage props because the truck driver driving those components ended up in a highway ditch after being stung by a bee.[1]

File under "Spinal Tap was too accurate to be funny"

Everyone's a critic.

Austin Churton Fairman (15 November 1924 – 4 April 1997), who used the name Churton Fairman but was more widely known under the pseudonym Mike Raven in the 1960s and early 1970s, was a British radio disc jockey, actor, sculptor, sheep farmer, writer, TV presenter and producer, ballet dancer, flamenco guitarist and photographer.

This guy obviously could never make up his mind what to do with his life.

sculptor:
http://www.bodminmoor.co.uk/churtonfairman/jacob.gif

(could be worse)

And you should see his sheep.

Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly felt that the album didn't live up to what it should be because it is too loud, but some songs on the album are good.[10]

yooooooo
https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

totally addicted to this, thanks forks

yeah this is cool

although got to dispute "Gigabyte Technology - Electronics Company" being created in the year 789 !

lol i complained about that specific example on the Spelling Bee thread

I consistently underrate how old banks and companies are