This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Everyone thinks they're a badass when they carry a bat around, but tell them "fine, take a crack at me", they swing like Dave Valle

in regards to the tippi hedren lion story, there is a whole photo spread Life magazine had done https://www.life.com/animals/something-wild-at-home-with-tippi-hedren-melanie-griffith-and-a-400-pound-lion/

How on earth did that family not get mauled to death?

There were 48 cast and crew injured in the first two years of production, with another 20-50 (estimates vary) in subsequent years.

Of the family members, per wikip,

Noel Marshall was bitten through the hand when he interacted with male lions during a fight scene; doctors initially feared that he might lose his arm… By the time he suffered eight puncture wounds on his leg caused by a lion which was curious about his anti-reflection makeup, Marshall had already been bitten around eleven times. He was hospitalized when his face and chest were injured and was diagnosed with blood poisoning. Marshall was also diagnosed with gangrene after being attacked many times. It took several years to fully recover from his injuries.

During a promo shoot in 1973, Hedren was bitten in the head by a lion, Cherries, whose teeth scraped against her skull. She was taken to Sherman Oaks Hospital, where her wounds were treated and she was given a tetanus shot. She was admitted to Antelope Valley Hospital after Tembo, the five-ton elephant, picked her up with his trunk by the ankle, fracturing it before bucking her off his back… She was left with phlebitis and gangrene, in addition to a fractured hand and abrasions on her leg. …Hedren was also scratched on the arm by a leopard and bitten on the chest by a cougar.

Griffith received 50 sutures after being attacked by a lioness. It was feared that she would lose an eye, but she eventually recovered without being disfigured, although she did require some facial reconstruction.

A lion jumped on John Marshall and bit the back of his head, inflicting a wound that required 56 sutures.

Jerry Marshall was bitten in the thigh by a lion while he was in a cage on set, and he was in hospital alongside Hedren for a month.

The story about Roar is just one of the craziest things. I think about it quite often tbh.

Baseball bats are often used as weapons by civilians,[29] criminals, protesters,[30] and mobsters.[31]

My soon to be 80 year old dad keeps a bat in the trunk of his car but as far as I know has never actually used it as a weapon.

The production notes on the Roar Wikipedia page are an eye opener. The 70s was a foreign country, they did things differently there.

Mentioned this before, but both Tippi Hedren and Jayne Mansfield had kids who were mauled by lions

Roar is a fascinating watch but very uncomfortable, really more for the unconsidered treatment of the animals than of the people (tho both are alarming). Jan de Bont also among the near-mortally wounded iirc.

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

According to Ernest Jones, the portrait convinced Sigmund Freud that Shakespeare was French: "He insisted that his countenance could not be that of an Anglo-Saxon but must be French, and he suggested that the name was a corruption of Jacques Pierre."

― Zelda Zonk

which in turn brought me to

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

the last line of which reads

In 2013 Lego introduced a Shakespeare minifigure.[40]

Thank you ILX for the Roar pointer…underrated part imo:

The script developed with frequent changes but always allowing for inclusion of spontaneous actions by the animals, such as playing with the family's boat or riding a skateboard. This led some of the lions to be credited as writers.[3][32]

OMG

paved the way for this handsome fella

https://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait.jpg

also many xps but

Siggly Flickers is my favorite Filly Crystal film

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:21 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

rl person Hilly Kristal, surely

Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.

In 2005, the band released a mixtape called Audio-Bio, which was one of their first CDs and contained many of their earliest songs and many songs not available anywhere else.

Bassist Marcus Miller is a cousin of Wynton Kelly's, as are rapper Foxy Brown, and pianist Randy Weston.

In addition, with the advent of the steak cube, an era of luxury street food has begun.[1]

In July 1975, Amin staged a £2 million wedding to 19-year-old Sarah Kyolaba, a go-go dancer with the Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, nicknamed "Suicide Sarah".

Mostly for the name of the band, the rest was par for the course for this lunatic

Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.

This is about Cities Skylines 2 right? What a shitshow that release has been.

While performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children in 1843 Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. At the suggestion of his father, Brunel was strapped to a board and turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.

In 1816, a tooth said to have belonged to Newton was sold for £730[164] in London to an aristocrat who had it set in a ring.[165] Guinness World Records 2002 classified it as the most valuable tooth in the world, which would value approximately £25,000 (US$35,700) in late 2001.[165] Who bought it and who currently has it has not been disclosed.

Lacking financial stability to continue from their records, label, or merchandise sales, the band split up on 2 November 2016.

Species Parrot
Died 26 January 1913
Pontevedra, Spain
Resting place Mourente, Pontevedra
Occupation Pharmacist's pet
Years active 22
Known for Intelligent and sarcastic conversation

Somehow I never heard this bit of trivia (from the Bearsville Studios wiki entry)

In 1988, The Replacements had a 10-day recording session at Bearsville during which they trashed the recording studio and living quarters and played a game they called "dodge knife" that was like dodgeball but using knives.

In August 1969, a collection of poems penned by the seven members of the Association was released as the book Crank Your Spreaders.

i didn't know much about them, honestly - just like a couple of their songs. i knew tandyn almer and curt boettcher were involved, i knew about "along comes mary" and "cherish" and "never my love" and "requiem for the masses". but i didn't know about terry kirkman at all. like, he met frank zappa when he was going to community college in cucamonga and they played coffeehouses together between '59 and '61. the whole la music scene is just wild that way.

Born in Maceió, Alagoas, Pepe was named Kepler Laveran by his father in honour to scientists Johannes Kepler and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran.

Pepe, who is playing for Porto in the Champions League right now at the age of 41!

Went down a pretty grim rabbithole reading about conversion therapy and anti-queer movements, but at least I did find this:

Pliny the Elder attempted to heal alcoholism in the first century Rome by putting putrid spiders in alcohol abusers' drinking glasses.[10]

Now I'm wondering if Russian River knows about this.

Jerome Benton's wikipedia:

Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.

On October 19, 1982, Paul America was struck by a motorist and killed while walking home from a dental appointment in Ormond Beach, Florida.[16]

re: _nudist colony of the dead_:

Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "This amateur summer-camp slasher spoof isn't as wacky as it thinks it is".[3]

only the all-time sickest of burns

theme song is all-time. lyrics present every possible permutation of "they're dead, and they're also naked". what are the odds that mark pirro originally wanted to call this movie "the naked and the dead"?

Jerome Benton's wikipedia:

Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, March 16, 2024 8:04 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Looks like the Purple Paisley Brunch ended last summer. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=543449007976253&set=a.483956800592141

It's a story
Of a man named Benton

Jerry Jeff Walker changing music biz history:

It was Walker who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida in a Packard).[28] The two musicians also co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady" while riding the last run of the Panama Limited.[28][29]

Since the mid-1980s Danova has developed an instrumental project General Lafayette, a series of albums and singles featuring some of his own compositions through the sound of the trumpet.[9][10][11]

In February 2017, the BBC broadcast an episode of the genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are? about Davis.[41] In the episode Davis learned that in his family tree he had an ancestor that had been married to two women at the same time, another who had died in an asylum from syphilis and another who performed at minstrel shows in blackface.[42]

In 1745, aged 57, Swedenborg was dining in a private room at a tavern in London. By the end of the meal, a darkness fell upon his eyes, and the room shifted character. Suddenly, he saw a person sitting at a corner of the room, telling him: "Do not eat too much!". Swedenborg, scared, hurried home.

"Incubus Succubus" featured in Snowpiercer season 2 episode 9, where the subtitles described it as "upbeat music".

I'm enjoying this article on the reincarnated King Arthur/Druid King of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Uther_Pendragon

Becoming Arthur Pendragon: 1986–1991
In 1986 he bought a sword called Excalibur in a Farnborough shop; its seller stated that it had been the prop in the 1981 film Excalibur.[1]

Dug out a CD tonight I forgot I owned, Black Sun Ensemble’s Tragic Magic.

Infamous circumstances surrounding their Geffen Records showcase in Los Angeles lead to the quiet intervention of Paul McCartney to get certain members and their entourage out of custody- a tarot card was involved, but any more detail may arouse the attorneys! (Based on statements from Jesus Acedo & Duane Norman.)[citation needed]

Around age 5, his mother gave him a book of paintings by Hieronymous Bosch. Also obsessed with comics, especially EC Comics, he began drawing his own. He has said his first collector was Lady Bird Johnson, who bought a painting he made of garbage in 1965 for a children's art collection, as part of her ‘beautification’ campaign.[7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman_(painter)

Follow-up:

When police and fireman arrived on the scene, they arrested Coleman, Pivar and BF/VF manager, Jeri Rossi. Coleman was charged under an arcane statute, which had not been used since the 1800s, citing him for "possession of an infernal machine". He was fined $5000 for possessing and exploding fireworks and a further $300 for eating mice. The terms of his probation stipulated that he "not eat any Massachusetts mice for a year".[2][15][33][36][37]

Writing and inspiration
The song is about feeling the urge to kill, but not literally doing it.

^Ace of Base's "Don't Turn Around"

"Thong Song" placed first in a St. Paul Pioneer Press reader poll to determine the worst song in history.[128] It has also been labelled as sexist.[129]

massive monograph of Coleman’s paintings coming out in a couple of months

wtf St. Paul

Horses do not need lengthy times to raise steam in the boiler

It was the only album by the Doors to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Spoken Word" category.[7][8]

Claude Lemieux has four children between two marriages: three sons and a daughter. One of his sons, Brendan, is a forward for the Carolina Hurricanes. They are the only father-son duo to be punished by the NHL for biting other players.[8][9]

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