This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

In September 2000, the Millionaires released a soundtrack album to Baller Blockin' in which they starred. In 2001, the group disbanded due to monetary issues.

Nick Lowe had initially written the song while in the pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz. He has said that Judee Sill's "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" was an influence on the song

Munich was found dead outside Number 10 on 5 August 1943. In newspaper reports covering his death, it was revealed that Munich had produced a son with another cat. He was described by the Birmingham Post as "disagreeable", "unfriendly", and "how one imagines Ribbentrop would have been had he been a cat", and by the Evening Chronicle as a "detestable quisling"; the Huddersfield Daily Examiner instead stated that he "had a great reputation for 'ratting'".

Not specifically in wikipedia, but close enough:

The "lil" nickname originates in American gangs; a nickname given to members who aren’t at the top of the hierarchy, and rap (as it has done with many street codes and expressions) has appropriated it. The first recorded "lil" rapper came from Texas, a former drug dealer named Troy Lane Birklett who became Lil’ Troy and had a career with the group Mass 187 and as a solo artist since the late 1980s.

Steele imagined the first aspects of video's plotline when he was running around his house chanting "La la la!" repeatedly, then quickly envisioned the rest of the plotline shortly thereafter.

hahaha

Months before the 2005 reunion, a person named "P.J." called into the radio station WFMU in New Jersey, claiming to be a former member of Old Skull. "P.J." stated that he was re-forming Old Skull as a jazz fusion band without the input of any of the other former members. The call turned out to be an elaborate comedy sketch set up by Tom Scharpling, a supervising producer and writer for the Monk television series, and Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, for their radio show, The Best Show on WFMU.

This is the last sword and sorcery movie that Roger Corman produced in Argentina during the 80s.

Thomas Pablo Croquet was born on 21 November 1976 in Versailles, France. Croquet was originally inspired to learn English by his uncle, Horst.

When Croquet was ten, he formed the band Phoenix with schoolfriends Chris Mazzalai and Deck d'Arcy. Mazzalai's older brother, Laurent Brancowitz, also joined the band after the break-up of Darlin'. Croquet says that he "destroyed every single other option that would lead me to any potential career other than music", attending college for only four days, studying economics.

Just seemed like an odd thing to mention for someone who only attended four days of college

I was hoping he'd be credited with developing the game that bears his name.

Yeah his real name is another funny detail I learned in a previous wiki search

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

The rhythm and tempo of this song is often used to teach people the rhythm of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The recommended rate for CPR is 100 chest compressions per minute. A study at Coventry University compared the effectiveness of this song in maintaining this rhythm with an alternative of "That's the Way (I Like It)" and no song at all. The version used for the study was from a Little Acorns brand children's record, and was found to have a tempo of 105 beats per minute. Singing the chorus of the song twice, with a compression on each beat, results in exactly 30 compressions, which is the international standard for CPR.[7]

The use of "Nellie" resulted in correct timing for 42 out of 130 cases, as compared with 15 for no music and just 12 for "That's the Way (I Like It)". However, the depth of compression was found to be inadequate in most of those cases, and the use of "Nellie" was found to increase this inadequacy slightly, as compared with the use of no music (56% too shallow with "Nellie" and 47% without).[7]

More recently Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" has been promoted as an alternative.[8][9]

A+

somehow am not familiar with the childrens song but spent a lovely minute reading and trying to imagine cpr performed to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pcw34mL0c

like this tempo would be much cooler if it worked, gawkers crowded around just grooving hoping for the best

This is the canon version of Nellie The Elephant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA

An elderly man, played by Maazel, sits in a white room, bandaged, bloodied and with his once nice white suit dirtied. Another man, also played by Maazel, enters looking clean and in good spirits. He attempts to communicate with the tired version of himself and tells him that he is going to the park despite him telling him that "there is nothing out there." The cleaner man walks through the door and is immediately in the park. On the outside the door is not connected to anything. The man walks about and happily examines his surroundings before coming across a ticket taker who swindles other septuagenarians out of their things with low pay. He buys some tickets from him which take the form of money in the park.

Music and lyrics
Unlike Dirty, which features a loud and "dense blast of noise", Experimental Jet Set was considered warmer and more relaxed.[11]

Music and lyrics
Unlike Experimental Jet Set, which was described as difficult and claustrophobic, Washing Machine is considerably more open-ended and contains some of the band's longest songs.[1]

To date, he is the only member of the Forbes 400 richest Americans to be convicted of murder.[3]

this isn't _an_ unusual detail, i was just struck by the intensely labored mansplaining tone of this wikipedia page:

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

Hitler footage from the sketch in reality
The footage of Adolf Hitler is taken from Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will. The section (about 34 minutes into the film) where Konstantin Hierl presents the Reichsarbeitsdienst to Hitler is the source of the speech used for the joke. The first clip shows Hitler saying Insbesondere keiner mehr in Deutschland leben wird... ("In particular, no one will live in Germany anymore [without working for their country]"), subtitled "My dog has no nose". The crowd (led by Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach) saying: "How does he smell?" is from a scene just before Hitler's speech; the original German is Wir sind des Reiches junge Mannschaft!, "We are the Reich's young men!"[4] The punchline of the joke "Awful" is the next shot that shows Hitler's face. The original words are eure Schule, from "[The whole nation will go through] your school".

Influence, and other works

Jim Carrey is a fan of Monty Python. He described how Ernest Scribbler, played by Michael Palin, laughing himself to death in the sketch, had a huge effect on his early years.[5]

deep fake!

This has been seen as a criticism of the album, along with the glaring omission of songs by New Order or The Stone Roses and for not anticipating the imminent arrival of Grunge music.[2]

The drummer and songwriter Phil Collins found the 808 useful for looping rhythms for long periods, as human drummers would be tempted to add variations and fills.

McKenna lives in Sheffield, England with his wife and four children.[3] McKenna has 7 SCE Ordinary Grades.[4]

It contains a distinctive guitar intro by Keith Mullin which was possibly his most significant contribution to any one song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Murray#Loved_Songs

I just googled NY-style pizza and: "Minerals present in New York City's tap water supply are also credited with giving the dough in metro area pies its characteristic texture and flavor.[7][8]" LOL.

Author's photograph

The photograph of Silverstein on the back cover of the book has attracted negative attention, with some people finding it frightening.[22][29][30]

This photograph and the attention it received was touched upon in the children's novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by author Jeff Kinney. Protagonist Greg Heffley states that the photograph of Silverstein on the back cover of The Giving Tree terrified him as a child, and that his father would exploit this fear, saying to his son that if he got out of bed at night, he would "probably run into Shel Silverstein in the hallway".

Though they considered themselves a band, Warner Bros. signed Christopher Cross as a solo artist in early 1979.[5][6][7]

Although best known for his vocals and songwriting, Cross is also a skilled guitarist. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan invited Cross to play on their albums, but Cross declined.[8] Cross also substituted for Richie Blackmore during a Deep Purple concert in 1970 when Blackmore fell ill.[6][9]

where is my time machine

I just googled NY-style pizza and: "Minerals present in New York City's tap water supply are also credited with giving the dough in metro area pies its characteristic texture and flavor.[7][8]" LOL.

― Nabozo

seriously people won't shut up about new york city water. usually they then go on to talk about how it was all because of theodore roosevelt. it's a whole thing.

look i know this is just the guy's name, but i still love this quote:

"Rusty Kuntz," Royals manager Ned Yost has said, "is the best first base coach in baseball."[1]

It is also the oldest club in Albania which means it is the first club created in Albania.

citation needed

Abel Ferrara, director of the 1992 film, has been quoted by various media outlets as being very angry about the film. After it was first announced, Ferrara was quoted as saying "As far as remakes go, ... I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they're all in the same streetcar, and it blows up."[15]

I really love that laconic style you find in certain Wikipedia articles.

Hard Drive is an album by drummer Art Blakey with The Jazz Messengers recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Bethlehem label. It is notable for constituting the first recorded use of the term 'hard drive' to refer to a computer memory drive.

The theater was adjacent to an Old West-themed village, and before the show, the audience would tour the village where apprentices would play townsfolk. Varney and the company usually played in the outdoor theater to audiences of only a few dozen people. He entertained the young apprentices by throwing knives into trees. He performed in Blithe Spirit, Boeing 707 and an original musical, Fire on the Mountain. He once jokingly threatened a long-haired apprentice, John Lino Ponzini, that he would take him up to Hazard, Kentucky, where "you (Ponzini) wouldn't make it down Main Street without the townsfolk giving you a crewcut".

Unlike Craven A, Navy Cut was intended to have a unisex appeal. Advertisements referred to "the appeal to Eve's fair daughters" and lines like "Men may come and Men may go".

His son has schizophrenia, and his daughter works in technology.[26]

"Clowns" combines echo chamber-enhanced horns with dub music; Ryder said it was about his Black Grape bandmate Paul "Wags" Wagstaff's fear of clowns.[11][12]

NME said "It's genius. His talent is akin to Eminem. He's a great chronicler of down and dirty street life". Uncut said "It's terrifying, exhilarating stuff, just like 9/11. Another wildly implausible Ryder comeback. Just when we needed one. Embrace his soul vision".

"just like 9/11" another one for the cover sticker

Thomas is a vegetarian, nonsmoker and nondrinker.[2][5] In 1986, Thomas married Kassandra Green.[27] They have five children together: Four sons: Noble, Sovereign, Sacred, and Kharisma and one daughter Imaj

embrace my soul vision

Future War 198X (フューチャーウォー198X年, Fyūchā Wō Sen Kyū Hachi Ekkusu-nen) is a 1982 Japanese anime science fiction war original video animation

that is some impressive word salad

Cavalera used to play with three strings, but eventually started playing with four due to Andreas Kisser writing a Sepultura song that required another string.[12]

Not Wikipedia but Discogs:

Crust broke up in 1997 due to internal tensions and inability to secure a record deal, but reformed in 2004. They also had a show in 2012 where Jerry (Who wasnt informed of the show.) heckled with his wife.

[Image of Maroon 5] Maroon 5's cover of "Sex and Candy" received critical acclaim.

DiMaggio insisted on being introduced as the "Greatest Living Ballplayer" at events, including Yankee Old-Timers Day, and he once punched Billy Crystal in the stomach for not introducing him as such.[71]

This YouTube video might be interesting to some people - detailing unusual users instead of details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twHFPMoJNXE

"Airplane" is a love song written from the perspective of someone flying on an airplane.[43]

McDonald's character Mayor McCheese (left) and Sid and Marty Krofft's character H.R. Pufnstuf both are fictional mayors that possess disproportionately large round heads.

this isn't so much a "detail" as it is "the summary paragraph", but:

Saint Pantaleon (Greek: Παντελεήμων, romanized: San Pantalon Russian: Пантелеи́мон, romanized: Panteleímon; "all-compassionate"), counted in Western Christianity as among the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Late Middle Ages, and in Eastern Christianity as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.

i like the idea of the Holy Unmercenary Healers if for no other reason than that it implies the existence of Holy Mercenary Healers

well, i mean, i guess it's necessary, the only healers i've grown up with are mercenary healers. so good call, Eastern Christianity.

In 2019, Noone won the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the Casino Entertainment Awards.[2]