This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules liked the track so much that he played it for four weeks in a row on his show. When he found out that it was a 2 Unlimited single, he no longer supported the track.[citation needed]

excellent

This is wild:

Once in the RAF he went through flying training. He was the penultimate man going through a medical line receiving inoculations for typhoid with the other flight candidates in his class (they were going to Canada to receive new aircraft) when the vaccine ran out. They refilled the bottle to inoculate him and the other man as well. By mistake they loaded a pure culture of typhoid. The other man died immediately, and Bentine was in a coma for six weeks. When he regained consciousness his eyesight was ruined, leaving him myopic for the rest of his life.

holy shit

that Wikipedia page is full of stuff: concentration camps, hovercraft, air crashes, parapsychology...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bentine

there're Potty Time episodes on YouTube as well if you want to see the crap we were subjected on tv as kids (the bits i remember are more the flea circus bits, which is a different show which i can't find)

In 2007, O'Neal was arrested for shooting at Griffin, which he claimed was in self-defense; the charges were dropped.[57] O'Neal refused to allow Griffin to attend Fawcett's funeral in 2009.[58] He infamously hit on Tatum at Fawcett's funeral, not recognizing her as his daughter.

Onetime Elevator/French Toast drummer and former Fugazi roadie Jerry Busher plays a pocket trumpet on The Evens' song "Competing With The Till", which is on The Evens' The Odds album.[citation needed]

"former fugazi roadie". well _that_ sure meets notability guidelines.

Demographics

Although the series suffered in the Nielsen ratings throughout most of its four-year run, it had a strong following among teens, young adults, and disc jockeys.

(WKRP)

Well, yeah

Johnny Carson objected to his original role, which depicted him as a mooch, so the writers instead made him extremely versatile.

Dennis Hopper, who played the addled cook, was performing knife tricks with a real knife on the set. Sally Kirkland attempted to take a knife from him, and severed a tendon. She spent time in a hospital and later sued, claiming Hopper was out of control. Hopper has admitted to drug abuse during this time period.[1]

it's that last line

love that last line

Hopper has admitted to being sober once or twice during time period.

The focus on auto-erotic asphyxiation, including two deaths in the episode, has meant that this is the only episode in the series to be given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification.[3]

well at least we finally learned how Bluey got her name

A study was carried out in 2015 to show the effectiveness of different shot types, including slam dunks. The study was carried out across five different levels of basketball (NBA, EuroBasket, the Slovenian 1st Division, and two minor leagues). Overall the study showed that slam dunks were a very effective way of scoring in the game of basketball, particularly in the NBA, which had the highest dunk percentage in the study.[4]

it is noted ILH lore that the dunk shot is the best shot

Another aspect of the arcade version of the game was that when one inserted a quarter into the game, the game would play a sound file that said "You will die!"

Tauzin endorsed Jerome Schneider's book The Complete Guide to Offshore Money Havens by dubbing the book, "A serious contender for the best book on offshore banking I've ever seen."[12] Tauzin also spoke at one of Schneider's tax conferences.[13] After Schneider pleaded guilty in 2004 to assisting hundreds of people to avoid taxes through sham offshore banks,[13][14] a spokesperson for Tauzin called his endorsement "a stupid mistake."[13]

During his time as a footballer, Charisteas was known to play the Bouzouki in his spare time.

Over the years she has developed a loyal following based on her passionate, soulful vocals and intense stage presence.[citation needed]

In August 1986, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for violating the civil rights of his victims, and Wahlberg and his friends were issued a civil rights injunction which served as a warning that they would be jailed if they committed another hate crime.[15][16][17][18]

'no seriously, the next hate crime, there will be consequences'

List is missing 1967 comedy starring Sid Cesar, “The Spirit Is Willing” which has its own wikipedia page. Ghosts are the stars of this ribald romp in sunny Cape Cod.

Hester dropped out on day three after a bout of gastroenteritis and after Skelton accidentally kicked his toenail off.

The series tells the same story as the film, but contains nudity and additional character development.[3]

In his book What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History, author David Hofstede ranked the movie at #90 on the list.[1]

It has also been noted as one of professional wrestling manager Jim Cornette's favorite movies.

The Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack thread, and the Alfred's mention of who wrote "The Heat Is On", led me to this:

Like Moroder, Forsey started producing albums himself, and in 1982 produced Billy Idol's solo debut album, Billy Idol and Icehouse's global breakthrough album Primitive Man. Idol's 1983 follow-up, Rebel Yell, went even further, combining Forsey's affection for synthesized pop, Idol's punk grit, and guitarist Steve Stevens' heavy metal sound.[3] 1983 was the year that established Forsey as a producer. He co-wrote "Flashdance... What a Feeling" with Moroder and Irene Cara, who sang the track, for the movie Flashdance. In 1984, the song earned an Academy Award. The popularity of Flashdance led to his co-writing songs featured on the soundtracks of Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, The NeverEnding Story and The Breakfast Club. The 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from The Breakfast Club was originally offered to Simple Minds, who declined. After Bryan Ferry, Billy Idol and several other artists passed on the song, Simple Minds reconsidered; their recording went on to top the charts in several countries.

And wild that he basically didn't produce much more after that.

....that's so strange!
...I just heard Dontyouforgetaboutme out in the wild recently and was thinking it sounded kind of like Billy Idol...

Ha, now I can't stop picturing Bryan Ferry singing it.

The "Chicken Dance", also known and recorded as Der Ententanz, Tchip Tchip, Vogerltanz, the Bird Song, the Chicken Song, the Birdie Song, the Bird Dance, Danse des Canards, the Duck Dance, El Baile de los Pajaritos, O Baile dos Passarinhos, Il Ballo del Qua Qua, Check Out the Chicken, or Dance Little Bird, is an oom-pah song; its associated fad dance has become familiar throughout the Western world. The song was composed by accordion player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland, in the 1950s.

In 1982, the music producer for the Milwaukee-based organist and polka composer Bob Kames first heard "Dance Little Bird" at a German music fair.[6] The producer sent Kames a copy, and Kames recorded his own version on the Hammond organ, as "Dance Little Bird" or "The Chicken Dance" [6] and released it that same year.[7] The Kames recording hit solid gold when it was released in 1983 in Poland, selling 300,000 copies.[6] Kames received 2 of the 35 cents from each sale.[6] Since he could not take the money out of the country, he donated all of it to for a relief fund.[6] The success of the song stunned Kames. He commented in a 1995 interview, "This stupid little thing, it's infectious. It has only two chords, it doesn't even change for the bridge. It implants the melody in people's minds—it just sticks in there. That's gotta be the secret...It just keeps on going. People come up to me at jobs and tell me how happy it makes them. You get a song like this once in a lifetime."[6]