This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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.

In the late '70s, Broadrick's mother and stepfather were members of Anti-Social, a band infamous for live shows involving blood and faecal matter, as well as for soliciting people to commit suicide via guillotine live on stage.

their final gig (at the Kingshurst Labour Club) ended with drummer Harrison playing a drum solo on an audience member's head, an offense for which he was later arrested and charged.[

I love Betty Hutton, Throwing Muses fan

Speaking of Throwing Muses— I was reading “Ramona” by Helen Hunt Jackson, and I stumbled upon an answer book to it about “The Real Ramona”

https://archive.org/details/realramonahelen00hufgoog

It is a space disco song that features various sound effects akin to those from the film, such as the noises of R2-D2, the "pew-pew" gun sound and humming from a lightsaber, giving the song an electronic atmosphere.[17] As the album was not a licensed project, the sounds had to be re-made using synthesizers;[6] as it was primitive equipment at this stage, it took Meco eight hours to achieve an effect resembling R2-D2.[7]

In the Star Wars series, part of R2-D2's beeps and whistles are Burtt's vocalizations, also made using an ARP 2600 synthesizer, as are some of the squawks made by the tiny holographic monsters on the Millennium Falcon spacecraft. In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Burtt's provided the voice for Lushros Dofine, captain of the Invisible Hand cruiser. The heavy breathing of Darth Vader was created by recording Burtt's own breathing in an old Dacor scuba regulator.[citation needed]

Today (after a round of Travle) I learned that Botswana and Zambia share the shortest border in the world, 135 meters

In 1997 Martin invented and filed a patent application for a drum with a three-part rim that could be used to make three different rimshot sounds. He received patent 5,834,667 on this drum on Nov 10, 1998; the patent was issued to him under his legal name, Walter M.D. Midkiff. In 1997 Dewey was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Buffalo Springfield.

Although Davis admitted to disliking the song, finding it too saccharine, it became his only number-one hit, spending three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart starting 10 June 1972, and two weeks at the top of the easy-listening chart.[3]

“Google, what is Bebe Neuwirth’s real name?”
“Beatrice “Bebe” Jane Neuwirth.”
“Yes, but what is her REAL NAME”

o-levels (uk equiv of sats roughly) had a logo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OLevel.svg

i'm seeing Obituary for like the 7 millionth time Saturday, so I'm bored and reading their Wikipedia pages, and I come to the one for their live album Dead, and one of the songs "Rewind" is attributed to some bizarre dude with the last name Klavinger. Ain't never been nobody with that name in the band, and Google turns up nothing for his name and Obituary other than the Wikipedia article. The song is also officially credited to the band on the studio album it appears on. Dude is also listed as a one-time touring guitarist from 1999 on their page, but only in one place.

I figure it was someone's recent cute vandalism. through some digging, I found out this motherfucker added his name to the page and changed the songwriting credit to his name back in *2007* and the vandalism has remained there for 15.5 years, even through several revisions.

well, until now at least.

I added a friend's name to a Spanish variety show on wikipedia once as an inside joke. It got corrected but not before imdb copied the info, and there he still is.

Lol that's awesome

it's not so much unusual, but nowadays I've become fascinated by wikipedia pages that must be heavily monitored by the subject in question - i.e. Robbie Robertson

https://i.imgur.com/q2VICVk.jpg