This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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.

... the Albert Hall that is.

not in Evander Berry Wall

Landau was initially unimpressed by the revised title but accepted it after seeing Johnny Carson make a pun about it.

The band are perhaps best known for failing to ever release their critically acclaimed debut album.

same

Rock Me Baby is a B. B. King blues song originally released in 1964. This version was dedicated by the band to a couple celebrating their first anniversary. It starts with harmonica for 16 bars, and then joined by electric guitar for 16 more. Vocals are bluesy. Piano comes in later.

Pseudo-profanity such as "bullpimp" was disallowed, while "horse-crock" and "bullhorse" were approved.

once at basketball camp we were told "bullshit" was not acceptable (we were teens), one of the kids offered the substitute "bullcow"

As early as 1667, Massachusetts Bay settlers had enacted laws to try to reduce blackbird populations and mitigate damage to corn. According to Henry David Thoreau, a law provided that each single man in a town must kill six of those birds and, as a punishment for not doing so, he could not marry until he had complied with the aforementioned design. Obviously, since blackbirds reproduce at a much higher speed than humans marry, this control strategy was a failure.

The novel was adapted into a 2024 film, Devi Chowdhurani: Bandit Queen of Bengal directed by Subhrajit Mitra starring Srabanti Chatterjee in the title role.

India’s a little ahead of us

Phoenix's sudden death prevented him from playing various roles:

i imagine it at least put a crimp on his career, yes

In September 2015, Faulkner sued Hasbro for $5 million, claiming a plastic hamster in its Littlest Pet Shop line was an unauthorized use of her name and likeness.[28] Hasbro settled with Faulkner in October 2016, agreeing to cease production of the toy.[29][30]

ahahahahahaha

https://i.imgur.com/COhzZyy.jpg

He played center on the football team, and the football coach gave him his for his speed and agility. He generally performed and recorded as Shifty Henry, but he used a number of transparent for and , including Baron Von Shifte, Esq., Shifte Henri, Shifte' Henre, S. Henry, and Shifti Henri.

Damned hyperlinks!

Transparent pseudonyms for songwriting and producing.

https://i.imgur.com/5CNqZAv.jpg

not only lol but good piece of trivia that i did not know!

Osment was cast in the film after the casting director noticed him in a Pizza Hut commercial.

The song is heard briefly in Space Jam: A New Legacy, which is a sequel to the original film, during the scene where Sylvester the Cat tries to summon Michael Jordan to help the Tune Squad win the game against Al-G Rhythm and the Goon Squad, only to find out that it is the actor, Michael B. Jordan instead.

You know, I really need to check out these Space Jam movies at some point.

Not wikipedia, but this message board anecdote should be added to David Lean's entry:

When we were working at Warner Hollywood, he complained about the state of the only bathroom in our area of the building, and finally hand-wrote a (quite lovely) sign requesting that the ”gentleman with the exceptionally short penis, either attempt to take better aim…

or be seated.”

Maybe he had two streams of pee goin on

Hersh attended Salve Regina University, majoring in archetypal psychology and philosophy, and the Rhode Island School of Design, but dropped out shortly before graduating to establish the band in Boston, Massachusetts, where they had been playing on weekends. While at Salve, Hersh befriended film actress Betty Hutton, who was attending the school in her 60s; Hutton also attended several early Throwing Muses shows in Newport.

The idea of Betty Hutton going to early Throwing Muses shows is absolutely mindblowing to me lmfao.

that is fantastic

Rat Girl is great reading

e.g. they really had a fish nailed to a cross on their apartment wall - can't verify if it quoted Kafka tho

The 9th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 28 July to 5 August 1968 in Sofia, capital city of the then People's Republic of Bulgaria. The festival attracted 20,000 people from 138 countries.Initially, the event was planned to be held in Algeria in the summer of 1965, but due to the military coup in that country the date was postponed, and Bulgaria became the new venue for the festival.

The Beatles offered to play at the festival, but the band was turned down by the organising committee.

I'm not a total Beatle maniac, but this kinda sounds like bullshit to me

This probably should go in the "things you were shockingly old when you learned" thread, but w/e

At the time of his death, Bangs appeared to be listening to music. Earlier that day he had bought a copy of Dare by the English synth-pop band The Human League, according to Jim DeRogatis's well-sourced biography Let It Blurt. Later that night, Bangs's friend found him unresponsive, lying on a couch in his apartment. "Dare was spinning on the turntable, and the needle was stuck on the end groove", DeRogatis wrote.