This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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.

The first edition Monster Manual notably included topless portrayals of some of its female monsters, including the succubus, Type V demons, lamia, and sylph.

Maceration of byproducts from food processing plants sometimes involves the use of a chopper pump to create a "blended" slurry [weasel words]

In 1819, Runge was invited to show Goethe how belladonna caused dilation of the pupil, which Runge did, using a cat as an experimental subject. Goethe was so impressed with the demonstration that

"Nachdem Goethe mir seine größte Zufriedenheit sowol über die Erzählung des durch scheinbaren schwarzen Staar Geretteten, wie auch über das andere ausgesprochen, übergab er mir noch eine Schachtel mit Kaffeebohnen, die ein Grieche ihm als etwas Vorzügliches gesandt. "Auch diese können sie zu Ihren Untersuchungen brauchen," sagte Goethe. Er hatte recht; denn bald darauf entdeckte ich darin das, wegen seines großen Stickstoffgehaltes so berühmt gewordene Coffein."
"After Goethe had expressed to me his greatest satisfaction regarding the account of the man whom I'd rescued [from serving in Napoleon's army] by apparent "black star" [i.e., amaurosis, blindness] as well as the other, he handed me a carton of coffee beans, which a Greek had sent him as a delicacy. "You can also use these in your investigations," said Goethe. He was right; for soon thereafter I discovered therein caffeine, which became so famous on account of its high nitrogen content."[1][2]

so am i reading this wrong, or was runge fucking around with belladonna in order to help people avoid the draft?

The song inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name, directed by Dick Lowry, who also directed all but the last of The Gambler television movie saga pentalogy.

While he ultimately embraced fascism, Williamson flirted with communism during the 1920s, and his early work contains a Left-wing ruralism which would not have been out of place in a late 1960s/early 1970s John Peel show;[citation needed] it is not without coincidence that, in his old age, he genuinely responded to the music of the Incredible String Band when it was played to him by a teenage acquaintance.[18][better source needed]

Bryce stared at rapper Joe Budden in a night club for close to 4 hours. The encounter continued outside the club when Bryce followed Joe and his girlfriend at the time. The girlfriend later confirmed she was previously in a sexual relationship with Bryce. So Bryce stared at rapper Joe Budden in a night club for close to 4 hours thinking, "Yeah".

Hartz led a normal life until a sudden unexplained emotional disturbance changed his entire personality in 1971. He refused all medical help. He divorced in 1972, rejected all his friends, and feuded intensely with students, faculty and administrators. In 1974 he resigned from Harvard, but his scholarly skills and interests remained strong.

Also known as
Alan Jesus George Jones Sprockets Mr. Spanky, Al Jaworski, The Duft

Bort is the son of Bert and Ernie on the Muppets, he was adopted after the slavery epidemic.

In 1839, she was selling leeches to the Bristol Infirmary Hospital. She died from a fall on 24 December 1864 and was buried in the Hebron Road cemetery in Bristol.[3] Her daughter carried on with her business, lived alone in Bedminster in a house full of cats until her death in a fire in February 1900.[9][10]

The Warty Comb Jelly aka the Sea Walnut, people!

It has a transient anus, which means that its anus appears only when it needs to defecate and disappears after the act. There is no permanent connection between the gut and the rear of the body. Instead, as waste accumulates, part of the gut starts to balloon out until it touches the outer layer, or epidermis. The gut then fuses with the epidermis, forming an anal opening. Once excretion is complete, the process is reversed and the anus vanishes. The animals defecate at regular intervals: once an hour in the 5-centimetre-long adults, and once every 10 minutes or so in the larvae.

(I didn't actually learn this on Wikipedia, but am pleased this crucial fact made its way there so fast.)

Sea Walnut, Transient Anus (2019)