This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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

The other day I started with

"Gothic art - Style of Medieval art developed in Northern France" dated 1530.

The next card was "The Cure - English rock band" dated 1976.

I lol'd at the juxtaposition

the amount of detail going into Kreayshawn's attempts at completing high school always caught me as "who asked?"

At the age of 13, Natassia enrolled at MetWest High School, which she described as a "new alternative type of high school". Instead of having the usual classes, such as English and mathematics, she had to take an internship at a local radio station three days a week. She was dissatisfied with the lack of work and wanted to go to a normal high school, so she switched to Oakland High School. However, according to Kreayshawn, she "went to none of her classes, ever" at her new school, which led to her finishing the term with a 0.0 grade point average and getting expelled for truancy. After taking a short break, she went to Alameda High School but after a few months she was expelled. After the incident, she then enrolled in the continuation high school, Island High, where she then completed her second year. While attending, she again began skipping school for weeks on end. After two weeks, she returned to find out the school moved to a different location. Since she had no address or any contact with the school she was unable to find the new location and never went back.

1530 is hella late and wrong for Gothic art

Lol at “my school moved and I can’t find it”

i had that Gothic date in a game, it was for when it "ended" FWIW. why that particular year, i have no idea. picking "ends" to styles silly to begin with of course.

that is legendary!! i mean her parents were probably flipping but wow

Their last performance, on a Monsters of Rock cruise in October 2016, ended with several dozen mostly middle-aged women dancing wildly to the song "Girlschool".

The Snopes.com website debunks the rumor of an Our Gang curse, stating that there was no pattern of unusual deaths when taking all of the major Our Gang stars into account, despite the deaths of a select few.[51]

oh well in that case

Initially, the band went out on tour in December 2003 under the name "The Jon Oliva Project", but this was later changed to "'Tage Mahal". The band's name was changed after discovering the blues musician Taj Mahal.

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Soft and gentle vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dooley Wilson, Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Jackie Gleason, Wayne Newton, Louis Prima, Sam Butera and Bobby Vinton are notable examples of lounge music.

Gonna drift off to sleep tonight with the soft and gentle sounds of Louis Prima and Sam Butera

That's one of the sub-Borgesian lists of different things that are not quite alike.

André dated actress Rosario Dawson from 2016 to 2017.[19] In March 2021, André revealed he was in a relationship with a woman that he met at a farmer's market and that she did not know he was famous until after they started dating.[20]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKCDR7HWYAEKWLM?format=jpg&name=large

space jam dvd
space jam dvd
space jam dvd
space jam dvd

"let me present you with this link to my highly exclusive + bespoke spotify playlist.."

I remember that, and remember thinking "please don't let these be region-specific DVDs." They were, and they couldn't be played on the PM's television. Someone had to go borrow a region-free DVD player.

It was the last music video where Toby Keith had a bi-level haircut, and the first music video to feature him with his cowboy hat on.

Where where the hell is Toby?
Maybe he went to get a bi-level haircut
Maybe he went to buy a cowboy hat

According to Osmo Pekonen, "the family name Weil came to be when many Levis in the Napoleonic era changed their names this way, by anagram."

xp: Maybe he went to fill up his solo cup

Sooo it turns out that a single Canadian user has generated a massive volume of edits related to Toby Keith music videos and chart performance; and that this user's corpus includes many baffling instances of surreally warped syntax like this:

Amy Weber, a WWE Diva, appeared in the music video, which was directed by Michael Salomon. The video premiered on CMT on March 27, 2004, during CMT 3rd Shift. In the music video, Weber was in an auto mechanic suit, and then she took off her auto mechanic mask, and suit, and her belly button was shown attached by piercing jewelry, and then she goes with a man to a bar, and giving her a bottle of whiskey.

and the baby looked at me!

The music video for the song begins with a man playing the piano at a bar. Scenes also feature Keith singing the song in his bedroom, and himself at a bar with a woman, who is feeling bad for her, as the man gets up and leaves the bar.

The video shows him having trouble getting rid of the note, but being unable to let go of her memory. Because of this, he is having trouble focusing at work, and an inkblot test at his psychiatrist shows up. Leading to him running a cliffside, he is actually taking the big blue note by folding into a paper airplane, and throws the big blue note off the cliff. The scene switches from a rainy day to a bright sunny day, as the businessman plays the banjo.

Nice find, Bernard!

It features a young man speaking with an older woman (Tané McClure) cleaning up the party. An obvious friendship is shown from her thankfulness for his aid. In the same respect, he kisses her on the cheek, uncertain of any other way to thank her for all she has done for his family. The unexpected kiss leads to a chain of events from dancing, to mutual sadness as the late night ends knowing he must leave for college the next morning, to his unexpected return which brings out passion between them. In stark contrast to the emotions of the lyrics, a surprise ending reveals that the entire video was a daydream. It is brought to an abrupt halt as she shoves a bag full of garbage in his arms to throw away as he leaves and gives him a tactless tug and pat on his cheek wishing him luck.

Seville named The Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon, and Theodore) after Liberty Records executives Alvin Bennett, Simon Waronker, and Theodore Keep, respectively.

Other changes appear to be editorial decisions, such as the spelling of "goodbye" without the "e", also not found in the earlier texts. In volume two, the second book in the four-part Tschai, Planet of Adventure series, Servants of the Wankh is re-titled The Wannek (conforming to the two-word new titles of the other books), and the name changed throughout, due to an unfortunate association of the original name with a vulgarity found in British-origin slang. It is not exact (you must remove the "h") and anyway has no relevance to the story so the association soon fades, even for those cognisant of the word.

...the song, which follows a narrative of an unemployed man and his lover, was written as a conversational piece. (Gabriel) initially sought Dolly Parton to portray the woman

He joined Olympiacos at the age of 33, in 1997 from Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta and nobody could imagine his excellent attacking abilities.

He was a child prodigy and had finished most of his high school curriculum by the end of third grade, before being restricted to studies at his own grade level beginning in fourth grade.[7] In 1973, with the help of the ACLU, he became the first US student ever to be awarded money damages from his principal and school board, in Bexley, Ohio, for violating his freedom of speech by sending him home for wearing a black armband on the second anniversary, in 1972, of the Kent State shootings.

Guess we're not talking about Toby Keith anymore.

in his later years, Toscanini steadfastly refused to eat anything that came from the sea.

^ Wow. One source says he only ate bread and soup his whole life. Wonder if that’s true.

https://i.imgur.com/hgNnWJ8.jpg

Despite the middle section of side two being taken up with three successive slow-paced and pastoral-sounding ballads, the album still demonstrates a certain eclecticism

Can anyone guess who this is about? (No cheating!)

real guesses or joke guesses?

Incorrect guess: Brian Eno, Before and After Science. I'm not familiar with the actual album.

Is it atom heart mother?

Blonde on Blonde?