This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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“Throughout 2016, Buckethead's release output declined sharply, with only 24 albums being released. Pike 226, "Happy Birthday MJ 23" was released on the 53rd birthday of basketball player Michael Jordan.[56] 2016 also saw Buckethead return to touring, after a four-year absence.[57]”

"The chain has had numerous New York City competitors that adopted its mix of hot dogs and tropical fruit drinks, including Gray's Papaya, Papaya Dog, Papaya Heaven, Papaya Paradise, and Papaya Place. In 1976, Nathan's Famous set up shop next door to Papaya King, and a "hot dog war" ensued. Nathan's cut the price of its hot dogs from 50 to 35 cents, while Papaya King sold its hotdogs for a quarter. Six months later, Nathan's capitulated and left the block."

That sounds right up my alley. Like an Orange Julius but papaya?

it's been a long time but ime Papaya King drinks are thinner and more artificial tasting than Orange Julius. Orange Julius is better but those Papaya King drinks are perfect with their hot dogs when you're drunk at 3am

otm

man i lived on gray's papaya when i first moved to NYC. they were six blocks from the couch i was crashing on and you could get two dogs with everything on it and a big orange daiquiri for five bucks. I had weeks where that was my dinner every night.

scratch that i misremember: it was $3.50!
https://archive.ph/pM8sc
i had no idea they reopened at 8th ave and 40th; i gotta go.

the conversations out front of gray's were an excellent crash course to NYC street etiquette

This recording was extremely controversial and was widely panned by those in the Northern Soul scene, who described it as a 'terrible cover version of The Invitations' classic', 'trash', 'bad for Northern Soul',[14] 'an embarrassing novelty single',[16][17] 'crassly commercial', 'selling out',[18] 'horrible', 'even worse than Footsee',[7] 'dire', 'awful',[17] 'annoying', 'our Vietnam flashback moment', and 'a fucking travesty'.[9]

The 1st episode is 69 minutes, 2nd episode is 64 minutes long.

"After 1916, there is no record of him and his fate is unknown.[citation needed]"

i mean

Hahaha

Pons donated Ita, her pet ocelot, to the New York Zoological Gardens when it became too dangerous to remain in her apartment in The Ansonia on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Pons had received the pet, which she believed was a baby jaguar, from a friend in Brazil. The pet and Pons were very attached to each other, but it snarled at visitors and was deemed a hazard

Kelly Jones described the album, with its "very 70s, Stevie Wonder, rock overdub feel", as the fulfillment of his desire to make an album like his favourite soul music: "I was really into soul music - it's not something I'm ashamed about. I was brought up on Stevie Wonder and I love Talking Book and all the overdubs on it, and all that freestyling Marvin Gaye thing. I'd always wanted to make a record like that, and this was the first one I produced so that's probably why I went 'Fuck it I'm just going to do it'."[8

Having jammed as a trio in 1992, Hagar, drummer David Lauser, and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony formed the harmony-singing rock band Los Tres Gusanos (in English, the Three Worms) in 1993.[21][22]

In 2021, Hagar claimed that, during the early years of Los Tres Gusanos' formation, he was offered a spot singing for metal band Pantera that did not come to fruition.[31]

tell me why
can't this be
love
FIST
love
SCAR
love
BREAK

excellent

Astronaut John Glenn took 400 million "Amazing Sea-Monkeys" into space with him in 1998.[1]

No! No!!

They had two children and a bulldog, but divorced in 2014.

Right before the court case, Nurmi's lawyer, abruptly quit the case without giving a reason, keeping all evidence and case paperwork that had been collected and prepared. With no way to get to the court house in downtown Los Angeles from Hollywood (Nurmi did not drive and her lawyer was to supply transportation to court), Nurmi was unable to make it to the courthouse on time. The judge in the case had no other recourse than to issue a default judgment in favor of Peterson and the producers. So, though urban legend has been perpetuated over the years that it was only about the color of a dress, a wig, and a similar shtick, the case was more specific.

She was a fascinating figure.

OK, I was reading that assuming it was referring to Paavo Nurmi, so when it got to the part about there being no way to get to the court house and Nurmi not being able to drive (I somehow missed the pronoun) I expected the next part to have Paavo Nurmi running to court.

Vampira v. Elvira, one of US tort law's most misunderstood cases

This is a good listen

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vampira/id1461836123?i=1000583655655

Cockroach voices

Rockapella as The Roach Chorus
Billy West as Ralph
Reginald Hudlin as Rodney
Jim Turner
BD Wong
Jim Sterling
Dave Chappelle
Tim Blake Nelson
Godfrey
Rick Aviles
Corey Burton
Bam Bam Bigelow

Franke and the Knockouts was an American pop rock band, formed in New Jersey, United States, and fronted by singer/songwriter Franke Previte.

released their self-titled debut album in 1981, scoring a top ten hit with "Sweetheart", co-written by Previte and Elworthy.

Shortly after the album's release later in 1982, future Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres came on board to officially fill LeHenaff's spot on the kit.

Several years before the break up, the group also wrote and released the original versions of Eric Carmen's 1987 hit single "Hungry Eyes" as well as the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", (both of which were featured in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing). This material earned Previte an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

During her heyday as a porn actress, around 1975, True was hired by a real estate business in Jamaica to appear in their commercials. While she was working there, the Jamaican government banned asset transfers in response to sanctions imposed by the U.S. after the election of Michael Manley, a supporter of Fidel Castro. In order to return to the U.S., True would have had to either forfeit her pay or spend the money before she went home. True, who by this time was trying to break into the music industry, chose to invest the money in recording a demo of "More, More, More"

Usually invoking threat of excommunication, or anathema, the more creative and dramatic detail the better. Generally located in the first or last page of a volume as part of the colophon, these curses were often considered the only defense in protection of highly coveted books and manuscripts. This was notably a time in which people believed in curses, which was critical to its effect, thus believing that, if a person stole or ripped out a page, they were destined to die an agonizing death.

It was Guru Dutt who gave him the name of Johnny Walker, a reference to the brand of Scotch whisky, when he was inspired by Kazi's display in the role of a drunkard.

According to a 2010 article by Slate, this gimmick had its heyday in the 1960s, when almost 3% of all films showed characters sinking in clay, mud, or sand.[8]

Marinka or Maryinka (Ukrainian: Ма́р'їнка, pronounced [ˈmɑrjinkɐ]; Russian: Марьинка) was[2][3] a city located in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast (province), Ukraine.

Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney (born 16 March 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Brentford.

On the BBC program I'm in a Girl Group, Hoffs revealed she actually sang the studio recording of the song completely naked after Sigerson pranked her by telling her Olivia Newton-John recorded unclad (a falsehood Sigerson eventually admitted to).[10] "I imagined it would feel like skinny dipping—vulnerable yet freeing – and I decided to try it", she remembered in 2021. Nobody could see me; there was a baffle in front of me and it was dark." She liked the experience enough to sing all her vocals on the album that way.[2]

cool prank bro! fucking perverts can't be stopped anyways Eternal Flame is still a really good record and I'm glad Susanna was afforded a baffle

Possessed's association with Debbie Abono would be a "first" for both sides: Abono would be the band's first manager, and Possessed were Abono's first managed signed band. A grandmother in her mid-fifties at that time,[44][45] Abono had no previous connection to heavy metal music other than as a concert designated driver for her daughters, one of whom was a girlfriend of guitarist Larry LaLonde.[45] Due to generation gap, Abono also had limited awareness of the sometimes blasphemous themes of heavy metal, and was allegedly offended upon reading the lyric sheet of Seven Churches.[35]

Technically "unusual details in RoadsideAmerica.com entries" but I couldn't not post this here:

Stephen Huneck committed suicide in February 2010. The Dog Chapel was taken over by his wife, Gwen Huneck, who committed suicide in June 2013. The Dog Chapel has vowed to remain open.

Essential site in this vein imo: https://www.roadarch.com/about.html

As Booker became more familiar to law enforcement in New Orleans due to his drug use, he formed a relationship with District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., who was occasionally Booker's legal counsel. Connick would discuss law with Booker during his visits to the Connick home and made an arrangement with the musician whereby a prison sentence would be nullified in exchange for piano lessons for Connick Sr.'s son Harry Connick Jr.

In regards to the guitar solo in the bridge, Len initially reached out to Eddie Van Halen who was unable to do so. The group then reached out to Slash, although he was unable to perform on the song due to time restraints. The recording studio receptionist later suggested C.C. DeVille to the group, who arrived at the studio two hours later and played the solo in two minutes.

"The 100 Year Starship was named in 2012 by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn as one of the 100 most wasteful government spending projects. Coburn specifically cited a 100 Year Starship workshop that included one session, titled 'Did Jesus Die for Klingons Too?' that debated the implications for Christian philosophy should life be found on other planets."

lol in 1996 a few NASA scientists reported that they'd found evidence of ancient life on Mars. it was fairly quickly discredited as bad science and the story got largely incorrectly boiled down to "There's life *currently* on Mars" in the mainstream, but it shook my church to its core, so much so that the preacher actually made it the focus of his sermon, excitedly pointing out that it had been discredited. like they literally felt microscopic "green men" would disprove their dumb lil beliefs.

also it's p obvious Klingons aren't going to heaven

amazing find btw

klingons go to Sto'Vo'Kor duh

A 2014 scientific paper states that Errico is the musician with the highest degree and Pagerank centralities, and the second highest Eigenvector centrality, of all musicians of all time.

wait who has the first highest and is it johnny moped?

Camping overnight, a rural invasion, eccentric dress, wild music and sometimes wilder behaviour — these now familiar features of pop festivals happened at Beaulieu each summer, culminating in the so-called 'Battle of Beaulieu' at the 1960 festival, when rival gangs of modern and traditional jazz fans indulged in a spot of what sociologists went on to call 'subcultural contestation'.[6]

William Berger, also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger (June 20, 1928 – October 2, 1993) was an Austrian American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns, as well as travel documentaries.

A former roommate of Keith Richards...

That's apparently true, at least I've seen it reported in other sources. Not sure when that may have been though.

Man, that apartment must have seen some dark dark shit go down.