This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

"Buddy Holly is gay"

But he has also "resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle".

OVERREACT MUCH? WTF am I missing something here?

ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.

Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt

Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.

The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:

Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.

However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.

The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.

When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)

Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?

One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.

If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?

ROFFLE

Plus, all the slang...

Track listing

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02
2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15
3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39
4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04
5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17
6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56
7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23
8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44
9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37
10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33
11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17
12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51
13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)

it appears to have been edited again, not by me:

"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)

Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.

The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.

After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.

"Plus, all the slang..."
But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?

Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.

First go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_gay_pornography_awards

Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.

Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.

Note the expression on his face.

LOL

Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia.
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His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.

On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life

And in the next chapter:

"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."

Did someone misspell "promo"?

The rioting that took place became known as the Midland Revolt and drew considerable popular support from the local people. It was led by John Reynolds, otherwise known as 'Captain Pouch' who was thought to be an itinerant pedlar or tinker, by trade, and said to have originated from Desborough, Northamptonshire. He told the protesters he had authority from the King and the Lord of Heaven to destroy enclosures and promised to protect protesters by the contents of his pouch, carried by his side, which he said would keep them from all harm (after he was captured, his pouch was opened; all that was in it was a piece of mouldy cheese).

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

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951). The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel — languishing, heroic, or coquettish — anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel".

In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

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

Vocal recordings of "Chariots of Fire" have been made by Melissa Manchester, Jane Olivor, Mireille Mathieu, Demis Roussos, and various others, all with the lyrics from "Race to the End" provided by Jon Anderson.[25][26][27]

It was played when Apple Inc.'s co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer on 24 January 1984 at a technology demonstration event, and at another press conference celebrating the 100-day anniversary of the release of the first Macintosh.[28][non-prim

Not exactly unusual but this made me lol

Over the Top is a 1987 American sports drama film that combines the emotional drama of a child custody hearing with arm wrestling.

my two favourite hobbies, together at last!

Hollywood Wrestling, also known as Wrestling From Hollywood, is an American professional wrestling television series which originally aired locally in Los Angeles on KTLA in the early 1950s, and by 1952, was broadcast nationally (via kinescope) the improvised Paramount Television Network.

...how the fuck do you "improvise" a television network?

(the answer, i guess, is that you sign an agreement with dumont to buy stakes in their television stations and promote your shows through them and then say no, fuck it, we're gonna set up our own television network and beat the pants off of those dumont yahoos, despite their having, you know, a _financial stake in dumont's success_, while at the same time saying "oh wait you know what we should do, do a merger with ABC instead", and then be like "oh wait you know what maybe not". maybe that's why nobody's heard of the paramount network. unless you mean UPN. which was, uh, slightly _less_ improvised. oh and neither of these are related to the paramount television network barry diller tried to launch in the late '70s, which didn't start broadcasting but which eventually led to his involvement with the creation of the Fox network a few years later.)

Shaw was a lover of Rolls-Royce limousines[37] and a keen practitioner of qigong.[41] Mr. Bean was reportedly his favourite show.[47]

The early Paramount network had lots of affiliates, but most of them only aired a few of their shows, and many only a single show, which I guess could be considered "improvised". Paramount's partial ownership of the DuMont network helped prevent either network from succeeding, as the FCC limited networks from owning more than five stations, and they combined DuMont's three with Paramount's two to make five, thus not allowing either network to have the five stations that ABC, CBS, and NBC each had.

The slightly-built McCulloch was not known to be suicidal or to use heroin or morphine; rather, Scottish spirits were reportedly his years-long usual drug of choice.

Mr. Bean was reportedly his favourite show.

Not wikipedia, but while researching Bean's international popularity I found this post on Quora, a network that has an ALARMING amount of Mr Bean related questions.

Run Run Shaw (c. November 1907 – 7 January 2014), a Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist lived to be 107 years old. His manager Stephen C.W. Chan said that Shaw’s “very fond of watching Mr. Bean” and that's reportedly his favourite show, which perhaps constitutes one of his six secret recipes for having such a long lifespan.

This ‘magic code’ to keep a healthy lifespan perhaps is why Mr. Bean is so immensely popular among people of all ages and nationalities.

When asked about this tour, Reb Beach answered:

"Jamie Walters was THE funnest tour I ever did. It was just Jamie and I, first class all the way through Europe. Jamie and I became great friends and we wrote the song "You" together. With the exception of Kip Winger, he is probably my favorite person in the world (meaning "male person")."

For the Paraguayan footballer, see Óscar Romero (footballer). For the American soccer player, see Oscar Romero (soccer).

be careful not to mix up footballers and soccer players

is this in the bishop’s wikipedia page?

Shortly after the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the police received a letter in block capital letters:

I will make no more bomb units for the duration of the war – my patriotic feelings have made me decide this – later I will bring the Con Edison to justice – They will pay for their dastardly deeds ... F.P.

Mitsuyasu Maeno (前野 光保, Maeno Mitsuyasu; c.1947 – March 23, 1976) was a Japanese actor who appeared in roman porno films as Soichiro Maeno (前野 霜一郎, Maeno Sōichirō). Outside of acting, Maeno was associated with the Japanese ultranationalist movement. In March 1976, he carried out a suicide attack on Yoshio Kodama, a multi-millionaire right-wing leader and leading figure in the Lockheed bribery scandals. Maeno attempted to kill Kodama by flying a plane into his home, but Kodama survived uninjured.

This interpretation is more in keeping with the historical circumstances of Dylan's personal life and within the context the music he was making on Highway 61 Revisited. There is nothing sentimental or soft about this album. Every track is full of hard truths with little sense of forgiveness as is suggested by the more common interpretation of this song. Dylan has also apparently acknowledged being in the throes of heroin addiction near the time he was writing this material. He has written no other song which has characterized that experience and it would be an odd piece of omission that he would not have done so. This solves the problem when Gill calls this song "the least interesting track" on Highway 61.

In 2016, Skarsgård said that he had a vasectomy because he felt that eight children was enough.

You don't say?

The blue LEDs had to be wrapped in balloons after battery acid started leaking into Schwarzenegger's mouth.[3]

His father, at various times a police officer, clerk at Sheffield town hall, and chairman of the council's Health Committee,[5][6] was a former Roman Catholic priest,[4] the parish priest at St Joseph's at Shirebrook in Derbyshire,[7] who renounced the church and left the priesthood to cohabit with Hattersley's mother, Enid, a married woman at whose wedding he had officiated two weeks earlier

Pepsi, originally created in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and named "Brad's Drink," was first sold in his drugstore in New Bern, North Carolina.

Laughing thinking about ordering a Coke in a restaurant and the waiter responding "is Brad's Drink OK?"

No Coke, Brad's Drink

losing it over that

His father played the valve trombone in a small Italian band, and through him Meco got his first musical education.[1] Meco wanted to play the drums, but his father convinced him that the trombone was the right instrument, and at nine that was the instrument with which he was to stay. However, for Meco, the slide trombone was his choice, troublesome as it was for the small-statured boy to extend the slide fully at first.

lol beano-ass wikipedia entry

At Iowa, Williams studied alongside Raymond Carver, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Vance Bourjaily, and Richard Yates.[2] After graduating from Iowa, she married and moved to Florida, where she had a dog, a beach, and a Jaguar XK150. She wrote her first novel, State of Grace.

Her mother's family is Jewish and from New Jersey,[1] whereas her father's Texan family is not Jewish.[1]

Initially, the show was compared unfavorably to Saturday Night Live as a weak clone that resorted to shock humor for laughs. The third episode (original airdate: April 25, 1980) was the last episode to air on some affiliates due to objectionable content concerning zombie gore and cannibalism ("Diner of the Living Dead"), disgusting habits ("Women Who Spit"), and blasphemous humor ("The Inflatable Nun").[1]

you know, i'm fine with their lucio fulci riff and the one about fucking the blow-up doll of a nun, but _women who spit_? that one just goes too far. we're gonna have to pull the show from the air. we will be replacing it with syndicated rebroadcasts of the wholly unobjectionable WFLD Chicago children's show, the BJ and Dirty Dragon Show.

the wiki article goes on to note:

When Saturday Night Live's sixth season was met with negative reviews and low ratings over the new cast, new writers, and new showrunner Jean Doumanian, critics who once panned Fridays praised it, citing the show as being sharper, edgier and funnier than Saturday Night Live at the time.

gee, i wonder what could account for this sudden critical about-face. when season 5 of SNL was on, critics derided it as a pale imitation of the show. but when jean doumanian took over, critics started to praise it as being "sharper, edgier, and funnier".

the show goes on to describe sketches that were supposedly "sharper, edgier, and funnier", culminating in:

In what is considered the show's magnum opus, a 17-minute parody of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Ronald Reagan (John Roarke) as Tim Curry's Dr. Frank N. Furter creating the perfect Republican, who turns out to be a militant black man who leads Reagan's followers in a revolution.[1]

this sounds horrible. of course i am now downloading every episode of the show I can find because i am a masochist and i enjoy pain.

enjoy the Jamaican Chef sketches

Thunberg has met with many politicians and world leaders but said she could not think of a single politician who has impressed her.

Failed tracks

Besides Long Island–based musicians, the album also boasted a failed attempt to gain an unorthodox series of tracks. Apparently, they consisted of a cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley" by The Osmonds, "Love Is All Around" (The Theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), by Judas Priest, a cover of The Doors song "Roadhouse Blues" by Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jeremy Bendover" by Emerson, Lake & Curley, "Can't You See the Freebird, Jessica?" by The Marshall Skynyrd Band (evidently a duet between members of the Marshall Tucker Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd), and an untitled Medley that was supposedly recorded live at Hammerheads in 1980 by The Beatles.[4] (citation needed)

RIP Rex Reed

In February 2000, Reed was arrested for shoplifting after leaving a Tower Records in Manhattan with compact discs by Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, and Carmen McRae in his jacket pockets. Reed, who had just purchased two other CDs, says he forgot about the other three CDs and his offer to pay for them was refused. According to Reed, several days after the arrest, Peggy Lee sent him her entire catalog of CDs, because "she was so thrilled I wanted one of her CDs enough to put myself through so much hell".[46] The charges were later dropped

For his last meal, Feguer requested a single olive with the pit still in it. He told guards he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his grave "as a sign of peace".

I was reading about Wilhelm Reich and his orgone machines. I fucking died at this detail

Over the years the FDA interviewed physicians, Reich's students and his patients, asking about the orgone accumulators.[139] A professor at the University of Oregon who bought an accumulator told an FDA inspector that he knew the device was phony, but found it helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day.[148]

Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel, and most of her savings were used towards private detectives hired to find it. It was eventually located in Chicago, only to be stolen again by a new manager, William A. Banks

In late 1933 the local tennis courts were first opened in front of a crowd of about 100 players, a tournament was held the same afternoon. The local hospital also had an X-ray plant installed and commissioned a week later.[10]

Not Wikipedia, but I learn from The Cutting Room Floor's article on the obscure 1981 arcade game Dambusters that the high school table had a profanity filter.

"All of the entries in the word filter are backwards in the game's data. However, one glaring oversight as a possible result of this is that the game checks for NFORESKI, but it should be checking for FORESKIN. FORESKIN is not filtered out from the high scores table as a result, but NFORESKI is."

If only I could go back in time to 1981. I would be infamous.

Hitrino (Bulgarian: Хитрино, pronounced [ˈxitrino]) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Hitrino Municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of the province.
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Main article: Hitrino train derailment

At 5:40 am local time (03:40 GMT), on 10 December 2016, 7 people were killed and 29 were injured following the explosion of a derailed tanker train. The train, which was carrying propane-butane and propylene, struck an electricity pylon, exploded and caught fire.[1] The fire engulfed at least fifty buildings,[2] one of which collapsed trapping some children.[3] 20 buildings in Hitrino were destroyed.

An evacuation of the village was ordered as 150 firefighters fought the blaze;[4] it was extinguished by midday.[5] The injured were taken to hospitals in Shumen and Varna.[3] Some of them sustained burns to 90% of their body.[1]

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, visited the village several hours after the blast.[6][7][8]
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Hitrino Ridge in Antarctica is named after the village.

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Hitrino Ridge (Bulgarian: рид Хитрино, ‘Rid Hitrino’ \'rid 'hi-tri-no\) is the rocky ridge extending 3.5 km in northwest-southeast direction and 2.8 km in northeast-southwest direction, rising to 805 m[1] between two southeastwards flowing tributaries to Flask Glacier in Aristotle Mountains on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. The feature is named after the settlement of Hitrino in Northeastern Bulgaria.

They are the only father–son duo to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players.

"Baby, Now That I've Found You" is a song written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod,[3] and performed by the Foundations. Part of the song was written in the same bar of a Soho tavern where Karl Marx is supposed to have written Das Kapital.[4]

Didn't Marx famously write Das Kapital in the British Library Reading Room? Guess he might have gone to the pub after and continued it there.

Or maybe Macaulay and Macleod wrote "Baby, Now That I've Found You" in the British Library Reading Room and that's where the confusion lies.

I did take at least a decade of intense research to compose "Baby, Now That I've Found You" tbf.

They are the only father–son duo to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players

proud to recognize who this was about

Bice was nicknamed "Bogart" as a newborn by his grandmother, "Granny Madge", because she thought he had "Humphrey Bogart eyes". His family continued to call him Bogart, but when Bice was in kindergarten he shortened it to "Bo" because he did not think Bogart was cool.

Other interpretations include "I am a pigeon",[23] "My toe bleeds, Betty",[24] and "I don't want to go".[25]

Domino's Pizza China has offered American-style potato bacon pizza, crayfish crispy-and-tender chicken pizza, durian pulp pizza, and salted egg-yolk pizza, as well as Sichuan pepper-flavor tender chicken drumsticks.

citation needed for “american style potato and bacon”

having a hard time parsing what "American-style" is specifically qualifying there

Classic American sauerkraut/caper/pineapple/ketchup combo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuUet0gJ40

home made ipecac right there