This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Although Hard-Fi are generally considered part of the indie rock scene,[9] Richard has mentioned numerous times that they are heavily influenced by soul and dance music.[10]

The-Dream's first single from "The Love; IV" will be "Talk That Shit (feat. R. Kelly)" (WTF).

Upon its release, Love King received positive reviews from most music critics, who praised The-Dream's detailed production and complimented his sexual, boastful lyrics.

Sharky's Machine is a 1981 motion picture directed by Burt Reynolds, who stars in the title role. The movie is an adaptation of William Diehl's first novel Sharky's Machine (1978), with a screenplay by Gerald Di Pego.
Diehl, who was age 50 when he wrote the novel, saw the movie shot on location in and around his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Its cast included Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, and Richard Libertini.
It has been the most successful box-office release of a film directed by Reynolds.

Only thing I remember about Sharkey's Machine is that guy falling out the window.

In 1968 Rantzen fell in love with Desmond Wilcox, who was her Department Head (boss, essentially)

also

Cagatha "Caggie" Dunlop is an English "singer" and media personality who is the star of the reality series Made in Chelsea.[1]

fantastic use of hands in air quotation marks imo.

Barber attended Bangor University. She counts Ian McKellen amongst her closest friends, and he recently bought her a library.

Considered highly offensive by many at the time, the sketches primarily took the form of bizarre, sometime drunken streams of consciousness led by Cook, with interjections from Moore. Memorable moments from the records include Clive claiming that the worst job he ever had was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's anus, Derek claiming his worst job was cleaning up Winston Churchill's bogeys (leading the pair to conclude that the Titanic was one such bogey), Clive claiming that he was sexually aroused by the sight of a deceased Pope lying in state, and a horse-racing 'commentary' featuring horses named after sexual organs or their vulgarised derivatives.

Though the recordings were far too crude for television or a mainstream audience, Derek and Clive bootleg recordings circulated. They became famous as mostly unscripted dialogues, vulgar situations depicting with copious swearing - especially the word "cunt".

that's more of a usual detail in derek and clive sketches, no?

Need to replace "bootleg recordings" with "Virgin Records" for accuracy there.

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

Theatrical release poster
Directed by John Schultz[1]
Based on Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
Starring Heather Graham[2]hahahahahahahahaha she is funny!

Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and his poodle, Edsel.

I always find it funny when we get pets' names, but not family members.

xxp

Originally, The record was never intended for release, but when bootleg copies of the recordings proved popular, Cook decided there was money to be made and, padding the record out with live material recorded at the Bottom Line in New York City, the album was released in 1976. The record was very nearly called Derek and Clive (Dead).

My favorite part of the Derek And Clive excerpt above is the use of "memorable moments."

However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.[9]

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/A_thread_called_%22This_is_the_thread_for_unusual_details_in_wikipedia_articles.%22

On September 19, 2005 Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding achievement as a DJ.

David Mancuso smokes Parliament 100's Full Flavor like a boss. On December 23, 2006 a nightclub named after Mancuso opened in Tübingen, southern Germany.

that nightclub may be the only thing in Tübingen

From Axl Rose article:

A second baritone,[16] Rose began developing "different voices" during chorus practice to confuse his teacher

In early July 2010, Cheney was outfitted with a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute to compensate for worsening congestive heart failure.[142] The device pumps blood continuously through his body.[143][144] He was released from Inova on August 9, 2010,[145] and will have to decide whether to seek a full heart transplant.[146][147] This pump is centrifugal and as a result he is alive without a pulse.[148]

o_O

That Cheney detail is actually true.

It is unusual to point out that he's alive though.

During the spring of 2009, Bareilles was on her second headlining tour, the "Gravity Tour," to promote the third and final single from her album Little Voice. She made her third appearance in Charlottesville, VA during UVA's annual Springfest on March 28, her first as the opener for Marc Broussard in 2005 and the second being an opening for Maroon 5. Bareilles also played multiple college shows in April and May. Some were for college students only and others were open to the public.

Eddie tuned to "Hendrix's tuning" which is flat E, the open G and B reaches a justly intonated, beatless third. This consonant third was almost unheard of in distorted-guitar rock and allowed Van Halen to use major chords in a way that mixed classic hard rock power with "happy" pop. The effect is pronounced on songs such as "Runnin' With the Devil", "Unchained", and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?". What?

from Eddie Van Halen article

What? = otm

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

Undergraduates being considered for membership are called "embryos" and are invited to "embryo parties"

lol Steve the reason I found it funny is I found myself going "huh?" after reading it and seeing the "What?" there confirmed I wasn't alone. (and I fucking played guitar for 8 years!)

The album is widely seen as a return to the more harder-edged sound of their earlier releases: the band itself has described it as a mixture of Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go. The album was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, whose brother Tom provided the US mix of The Holy Bible.

Plant, known generally for his improvisation while performing live, would ad lib during live performances of "Kashmir". He would add in "sweet mama", "slowly dyin'", "now just a minute", "sweet darlin'", and he would stutter the words "baby" and "mama". He would also end that section with "there's no denyin'" and "Woman, talkin' to ya!"

unusual details in imdb trivia pages

This is the second time that January Jones has been cast in 1962 opposite an actor with a pork based name. The first was in "Mad Men" (2007) opposite Jon Hamm and then this alongside Kevin Bacon

lol wow

Bacon going Hamm

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

As part of his contract for starring in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale as Gallian, Liotta had permission to keep all wizard robes donned for the film.

The best part about that is that it's listed under Personal Life.

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

The technology has seen frequent use in Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea, while the West has been slower in the adoption of QR codes.

Isn't The Netherlands in the West anymore?

It's east of the GMT line, right?

The best part about that is that it's listed under Personal Life.

Ray Liotta puts on his robe and wizard hat!

Iam Hungry - A short-lived McDonaldland character who was the self-proclaimed "Vice President of Snacking." He was introduced in 1998 and dropped in the early 2001. The character was a floating, fast-moving green fuzzball with orange arms and a monstrous face. He would often appear when Ronald was dining with kids and would constantly crave food. He would never stop pestering them until he got fed. Iam Hungry was featured in "The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald" VHS titled "Visitors from Outer Space" where he eats the gunk off of Ronald's rocket. Iam Hungry was voiced by Jeff Lupetin.

The name "Dinotopia" is a portmanteau of "dinosaur" and "utopia".[4] Ironically, in Greek "Dinotopia" (Δεινοτοπία) means "terrible place" or "land of suffering", since the original Greek word for "dinosaur" (δεινόσαυρος) translates as "terrible lizard"

She had a miscarriage upon returning home from recording Gimme Shelter; apparently due to the strain associated with reaching such high notes.[9]

from Merry Clayton article. wow...really sucks, makes me kinda feel guilty for enjoying her performance! :/

Coco Chanel designed her first Chanel No.5 bottle to perfectly match the shape of Place Vendome (where the Ritz is, and where she basically lived although her apartment for inspiration and taking guests was just behind it on Rue Cambon). It is unknown whether this matching shape was intentional as google maps were not accessible in 1921

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

As part of his contract for starring in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale as Gallian, Liotta had permission to keep all wizard robes donned for the film.

― omar little, Friday, June 24, 2011 7:38 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

loooooooolllll thank you for this :)

wau has wikipedia been skinning its infoboxes for long? I hadn't noticed...

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/vendome.png

The Fray's use of the piano as the lead instrument in their music has led critics to compare the band with English piano-driven bands like Coldplay and Keane.[4][5][6] However, the band lists its influences as The Wallflowers, Counting Crows, Better Than Ezra and U2.[7]

However

The name marrowfat pea for mature dried peas is recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as early as 1733. The fact that an export cultivar popular in Japan is called Maro has led some people to assume mistakenly that the English name marrowfat is derived from Japanese.

In 2006, Belgian Conceptual Artist Wim Delvoye introduced the world to his "Cloaca Machine", a mechanical art work that actually digests food and turns it into excrement, finally fulfilling Vaucanson's wish for a working digestive automation. Many iterations of the Cloaca Machine have since been produced; the current iteration sits vertically, mimicking the human digestive system. The excrement produced by the machine is vacuum-sealed in Cloaca-branded bags and sold to art collectors and dealers; every series of excrements produced has sold out.

What can I say? Shit sells!

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

conceptual art again shows its superiority over all other art