This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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.

It opens in mid guitar solo before settling down into a familiar Can groove as singer Damo Suzuki mulls the relative merits of madness and "Mother Sky".

In March 1994, a teenager named Peter Eastman Jr. from Carpinteria, California, legally changed his name to Trout Fishing in America, and now teaches English at Waseda University in Japan.[42]

When opening for Kiss in Edmonton during their 1997 reunion tour, the band were left devastated when the crowd of 18,000 started chanting "We want Kiss" only a few songs into their set.[3]

HAHA....

wow, Econoline Crush has roughly as many former members as The Fall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econoline_Crush#Timeline

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

After a short illness, arising from a rupture caused by vomiting after eating an undercooked chicken, he died on 5 April that year, at the age of sixty-one.[8]

Osama Vinladen Jiménez López (born 7 October 2002) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Peruvian Segunda División side Unión Comercio.

Vinladen is named after Osama bin Laden, the founder of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda;[3] the difference in spelling is due to the similarity of b and v in Spanish.[4] Vinladen has a brother named Sadam Huseín, the Spanish spelling of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and his sister would have been called George Bush if she were a boy.[5]

wtf

In the midst of the global health crisis in April, a couple from the Philippines named their daughter Covid Marie to remember “that the coronavirus not only brought us suffering. Despite all this, a blessing came to us," his mother Colline Tabesa told AFP. 

A couple of migrant workers from northeast India, who were blocked from their homes in the state of Rajasthan, chose to call their son Lockdown, to “remember all the problems that we faced during this difficult period," the father explained.

(Not wikipedia but I wanted to find out why the weird names)

Vinladen is named after Osama bin Laden, the founder of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda;[3] the difference in spelling is due to the similarity of b and v in Spanish.[4] Vinladen has a brother named Sadam Huseín, the Spanish spelling of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and his sister would have been called George Bush if she were a boy.[5]

BOy, one of those names sure doesn't fit in with the others.

I mean, Saddam Hussein never had anything to do with Al-Qaeda.

Ho Chi Minh

During this period, he began to write journal articles and short stories as well as run his Vietnamese nationalist group. In May 1922, he wrote an article for a French magazine criticizing the use of English words by French sportswriters.[30] The article implored Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré to outlaw such Franglais as le manager, le round and le knock-out

don't honestly know how ho chi minh had the time to do all the things he's said to have done during his time in paris, escoffier told him to give up this revolutionary politics nonense and become the greatest pastry chef the east has ever known

Lustig made his full debut for the Sweden national team on 19 January 2008 in a 2–0 loss against the USA in January 2008. He has been quoted saying if he had signed for Celtic FC by this point in his career he would have declared for the Republic of Ireland national team due to discovering his love for the IRA.

always enjoy hearing about Auguste Escoffier because I like to imagine someone made up his name to mean "respected and impressive scoffer of food"

The payphone was a touch tone and was located on the left of the "Restrooms" door in the pilot episode. For the first season, it was moved to the right of the doors that led to the kitchen section of the diner. For the second season, it was moved to the wall between the two doors that became two separate restrooms and was replaced by a phone with a rotary dial. From 1978 to 1985, the phone was a touch tone and was located at a section that was a few steps away from the entrance to the diner.

An unlikely supporter of Scottish Highland Football League club Buckie Thistle:

Horror author Stephen King mentioned Buckie Thistle in his 2020 book If It Bleeds. He then sent The Jags two copies of the book to be auctioned and a picture of himself in their football strip.

Just Dance 3 (Wii, Xbox 360, PS3) Inputting a part of the (Konami) code on the title screen unlocks the extreme version of Barbra Streisand.

i just like the phrase "the extreme version of Barbra Streisand" and am glad this is something which exists

Shin Barbarastreisand Tensei

WHAT THREAD PLEASE

oh sorry wrong thread lol. i want to know any and all secret codes for dance gamee tho

the Dark Souls of Barbra Streisand

Online magazine About.com ranked the rapper as one of the "Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007)".[4][better source needed]

"It's All in the Game" is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major", written by Charles G. Dawes, who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President[1] or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both).

...i think bob dylan actually mentioned that bit of trivia on theme time radio hour.

it was only true until 2007, when Dan Quayle got a co-writing credit on "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"

lmao