This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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

No particular detail, but the entire delivery of this one becomes kind of surreal imho:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

It was reported that Chan and his father have an estranged relationship with each other.[citation needed] After serving six months in jail, Chan met his father for the first time in Taiwan, and the two appeared to have reconciled. "I hadn't seen him for too long. I feel he's matured this time," Jackie Chan said. "We didn't talk about unhappy things. It was all family chat. We talked into the night and didn't sleep." Before leaving to do a promotion, he gave his son a haircut.[

During his student years, Radcliffe was a member of a number of bands, including a short stint as the drummer for the band Skrewdriver but left before their later transformation into a white power group.

This graphic from the human article is kind of amazing. We're 34% of mammal biomass?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#/media/File%3ADistribution-of-earths-mammals.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Distribution-of-earths-mammals.png/1065px-Distribution-of-earths-mammals.png

why are poultry not included, though? sounds like a chicken conspiracy

oh wait they're not mammals. whoops

(then why are they called out ffs)

The house was prominently used as a location for the film Lethal Weapon 2,[5] as well as in a 2011 commercial for Oliver Peoples eyewear featuring singer Devendra Banhart and his girlfriend Rebecca Schwartz.[6]

The CGI cow was originally a CGI zebra from the 1995 film Jumanji.

In 2000, de Bono advised a UK Foreign Office committee that the Arab–Israeli conflict might be due, in part, to low levels of zinc found in people who eat unleavened bread (e.g. pita flatbread). De Bono argued that low zinc levels leads to heightened aggression. He suggested shipping out jars of Marmite to compensate.

Did De Edge comment on this?

Horrific as it sounds, the chainsaw was originally invented to assist in surgery (and specifically) childbirth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw

Leatherface was just a really good midwife

On February 12, 2022, the Satanic Temple held their first SatanCon convention inside Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Outside the hotel, hundreds of Christians protested the convention holding crucifixes, crosses, and signs denouncing Satan.[108] According to one report based on a tweet, at one point, police were forced to intervene at the protest after some Protestant and Catholic protesters started fighting against each other over their theological differences.[109]

Hurricane Michael's weather effects here on Florida's Suncoast as seen from Honeymoon Island State Park beach the location for many of my bikini model photo shoots.

Her mother had started work as a tightrope walker and juggler in Bertram Mills Circus. There she had met her father, who was a welfare officer for the Grimsby Dock Labour Board.

Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen[1] (born 21 June 1997 in Salzburg) is an Austrian motor racing driver and heir apparent to the headship of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

no need to post calzino's legalname, jeez

By the time the announcer can finish saying his name the race is over!

"...of Ulm."

Hugh O'Leary (born 1974) is an English man. He is the husband of Liz Truss, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022.[1]

I don't remember ever seeing this construction on wikipedia before, where the first sentence just describes someone as a [nationality] (wo)man with no further information.

Useful info for blood-sniffing giants

He grew up in Volendam and as a teenager sold eels along with his father and brother, dressed in traditional Volendammer garb of red shirt, baggy black pants, and clogs.[1] He didn't enjoy it, but started selling eels in bars frequented by criminals and then moved into cocaine dealing.[1] He was nicknamed "the Stutterer".[1]

The song "Everything Changes" was featured in the 1995 film The Babysitters Club. It was played during a "tense" moment in the film, went 13-year-old Stacy (one of the main characters, played by a 21-year-old actress) has to come to grips with her anorexia nervosa, as well as get over the 18-year-old she has a crush on. The song plays dramatically after she has lied to her crush about being 18; she and a friend acquire fake ID's and travel to New York City to have a night out with her crush. The fake ID's are embarrassingly confiscated by the doorman at a nightclub; the two are publicly shamed and sent home from their planned weekend.

Selena Gomez covered "Magic" for the soundtrack of the Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place; it was marked with an asterisk (*) as "Magic*" due to two other songs on the album having identical names (the other two performed by Meaghan Martin and Honor Society).

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Subscribe to youtube.com/@Branyx[2] is the first season of the American true crime anthology series, Monster, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix, which was released on September 21, 2022. Murphy also serves as showrunner and is an executive producer along with Brennan.

the thread for uninteresting wikipedia vandalism is over there

I think this thread was supposed to be for wiki vandalism tho, look at the first post

no "kiddie porn sux" is my fav Who song

sic

mike harrison married and went on to have a child named luther in 1970 luther then whent on to have dylan 2005 and drew 2009

Championed by radio DJs such as Jo Whiley (BBC Radio 1), the band provided a respite from the pop groups that dominated radio airplay at the time.[citation needed]

Basically a huge hunk of this entire entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evander_Berry_Wall

Battle of the Dudes would be a good name for a crossover thrash festival.

In some variants of "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", Hitler's second testicle is mentioned as being in the Hall.