This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

The song is upbeat, describing in various ways how the singer will not be deterred or impeded in their goals, because they possess the quality of 'having the music' in them.

His Battlestar Galactica theme was featured prominently in the film Airplane II: The Sequel (1980).

According to an essay on the web site for The Biography Channel, in the 1970s, entertainment journalists did not investigate the private lives of performers who were best known as game show regulars.[29]

From the mid-1960s until 1980 Felix ran a record stall in Derby's Guildhall Market. Since 1981 Felix has been delivering ghost tours around Derby every Halloween.[2] He has also been campaigning during this time to set up an exhibition centre in Queen Street, Derby, at the old clockworks.[3][4] Felix is quoted as saying that there is "barely a corner [of Derby] which shouldn't have a blue plaque on it."[4] He hopes to use the now abandoned warehouse as an exhibition of Derby's past, both paranormal and otherwise.

Felix is quoted as saying

technically writing it into his own wikipedia entry counts as saying it

BINGO

Bach was dissatisfied with the standard of singers in the choir. He called one of them a "Zippel Fagottist" (weenie bassoon player).

"fagottist" is the half of that that means bassoon player, fortunately

Bellomo is the son of Salvatore Bellomo. He is the double cousin of Genovese associate Liborio Thomas Bellomo; their fathers are brothers and their mothers are sisters. This has led law enforcement to confuse their identities on several occasions. In 1997, Liborio Thomas Bellomo swore in an affidavit that he was guilty of federal charges instead of Bellomo

The song speaks of the mutual opening of hearts as being the only way to preserve a relationship once the partners have allowed themselves to grow apart. The lyrics acknowledge the fact that most relationships do not endure the test of time, yet still some are able to do so.

Rusty is a 76-year-old capo in 2004 when he first appears in the series, making his character born in 1928, in the Lupertazzi crime family, married to Gianna Millio. He is a capo that controls territory for the family in Brooklyn, New York and Queens, New York. The name Rusty is a pet name of Ruston or is a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.

The word "duplex" is occasionally mispronounced with the last letter silent due to multiple misperceptions: (1) that the English word came from French, (2) that an English word naturalized from French needs to retain the French pronunciation, and (3) that the terminal -x would be silent in French. But (1) this English word came straight from educated English speakers' use of Latin (not by way of French), (2) most English words that came from French words use naturalized pronunciation, and (3) the French pronunciation of the French cognate ends in /ɛks/ anyway.

what? people call it like... a dupleh? do they go see a movie at the cinepleh? is brock lesnar the master of the german supleh?

never heard this in my life, maybe you are thinking of the duplass brothers

It's a compleh issue.

Surely nobody has ever said “dupley”

In Olympic and amateur wrestling there exists a move called a souplex, pronounced suplay, a Greco-Roman wrestling term derived from French.[citation needed] During his career, pro wrestling commentator Gordon Solie used the soo-PLAY pronunciation (as have the AWA's Rod Trongard and Terry Taylor), but almost all other pro wrestling talent pronounces it SOO-plex.[citation needed]

holy shit you just broke my head

Sossamon attended Galena High School in Reno, graduating in 1995. The day after her high school graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles with two friends, to study dance. "Nothing compares to that feeling when you first leave home and arrive somewhere new," she once recalled. "When we woke up in the morning, just making coffee felt amazing. It felt like being so free – just to wake up and make coffee and look at our couch. Nothing beats that".

Later that year, he adopted the stage name "Little Tich", which he based on his childhood nickname of "Tichborne", acquired through his portly stature and physical likeness to the suspected Tichborne Claimant Arthur Orton. The terms "titchy" or "titch" were later derived from "Little Tich", and are used to describe things that are small.

that's some good trivia

During World War I, King ... was a frequent visitor to the Royal Navy and occasionally saw action as an observer on board British ships. It appears that his Anglophobia developed during this period, although the reasons are unclear.

Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum is a coastal species with white flowers that grows in the United Kingdom. This is probably the species mentioned by Shakespeare in King Lear.

On December 31, 1967, John Derek recruited his wife to operate one of his cameras after he had been commissioned by daredevil Evel Knievel to film his motorcycle jump of the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It was Evans who captured the iconic images of Knievel's devastating crash as the jump failed.

(That's Linda Evans of Dynasty fame).

During 1979, Loggins and McDonald wrote "This Is It" for Loggins' ailing father who had to choose between life and death.

in an ironic mirror of his son's career

That evening I rushed back to visit my father at the hospital with my first demo of "This Is It" in my hand. As I played it for him in his room, tears came to our eyes, we held each other and silently I knew he'd be alright. My father lived four more good years before suffering kidney disease created by lack of blood flow, and died in 1987.

Not saying it's not a good/true story, but the sentence I quoted is really... something.

He is the eldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgård (Also known professionally as "Stellar Skateboard" due to his short stint as an early skateboarding enthusiast)

^ that's a joke from the bad-movie podcast How Did This Get Made

Maggot, like the other members of the group is a supporter of Liverpool F.C. although he has never seen them play.

Bongusto enjoys playing football and tennis, and is very good[citation needed] at both sports.

Instruments

Vocals
guitar
bass
piano
keyboards
synthesizer
slide guitar
harmonica
autoharp
harmonium
violin
accordion
buildings [1]

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne

Synopsis[edit]
The song details the travails of a couple geographically separated by the Mississippi river. They emphatically pledge that their love is too great to let the wide distance of the river keep them separated. Overcoming alligators and bouts of distraction (the man is often sidetracked by spending time fishing) the man pledges to somehow cross the river while the woman claims she'll go so far as to swim the distance (1 mile the song claims). This is an especially bold proclamation on her part as in 1973, arsenic, E. coli and fecal coliform bacteria levels in the Mississippi river far exceeded modern WHO recommendations by over 2000% (similar to current levels in the Ganges river).

I was waiting for it, and I wasn't disappointed.

Would've also accepted statement explaining how due to current conditions, one would need to start swimming from a point one mile up the river to successfully reach the rendezvous point.

In the 29th episode of the first season (Storm Center), it is revealed that Helen Kimble was strangled. This is not the method of choice for a man with only one arm.

Synopsis[edit]
The song details the travails of a couple geographically separated by the Mississippi river. They emphatically pledge that their love is too great to let the wide distance of the river keep them separated. Overcoming alligators and bouts of distraction (the man is often sidetracked by spending time fishing) the man pledges to somehow cross the river while the woman claims she'll go so far as to swim the distance (1 mile the song claims). This is an especially bold proclamation on her part as in 1973, arsenic, E. coli and fecal coliform bacteria levels in the Mississippi river far exceeded modern WHO recommendations by over 2000% (similar to current levels in the Ganges river).

this has now been edited out of the article

In July 2018, De Backer and his partner Maud birthed a daughter, Léonie.

Catgut from kitgut or kitstring—the word kit, meaning fiddle, having at some point been confused with the word kit for a young cat; The word kit, being derived from fiddle in Welsh, a language whose native speakers are very musical.

Dubious traditions, tracing the fraternity's origins even back to Roman Emperors Nero in A.D. 55, and its name to Titus in A.D. 79 because of their odd signs and ceremonies, are at best considered peculiarities.

For the outside shots of Slash while he is playing the first solo, Rose had originally envisioned it taking place in a "cool field" of sorts. However, since the video was shot in winter, there were no good-looking fields around, and eventually the band decided to use a church in New Mexico. Coincidentally, this was the same church used in the movie Silverado.

In 2018 Reese Witherspoon added the book to her reading list.[6] Witherspoon stated it was "a mystery, a romance, a family drama....and yes it's 🔥 🔥 🔥!"[7]

Farrow married teacher Albert Morrill Bruns in December 1969[21]. They have three children and four grandchildren.[2] In 1981, she was nearing the end of a three-year affair with New York real estate heir Robert Durst when his wife went missing.[22][23]

[Margot Fonteyn] died from ovarian cancer exactly 29 years after her premiere with Nureyev in Giselle.

He became a supporter of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. in 2017.[102]

also, fuck, the 1977 Saturn Awards For Best Actor, admittedly I am drunk but I am absolutely LMFAO

In the article on Sarah Kyolaba, former wife of Idi Amin:

From 1997 until at least 1998, Kyolaba ran Krishna's Restaurant in Upton Road, West Ham, London, which served dishes such as stewed goat, muchomo (barbecued meat with salad) and ekigere (cow hoof in gravy).[2] However, it was closed down for a time in November 1997 after environmental health inspectors found cockroaches and mice in the kitchen. Kyolaba avoided jail by pleading guilty.[1][2][3]

In early 2005, the Czech Television (ČT) started a contest to choose The Greatest Czech (inspired by the British show 100 Greatest Britons). By 15 January it seemed that most of the votes (by SMS, the Internet or mail) had gone to Jára Cimrman.[5] However, ČT decided to disqualify Cimrman, saying that only real people were eligible for the contest,[5] a decision that was strongly criticized by the public.

Could've been worse - portuguese version of that show ended up electing fascist dictator Salazar.