This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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]

She was presumed to be dead after being transported to another dimension with Riff. However, she was seen alive but in a horrifically burned condition in an alternate dimension with Riff. By clever trickery, Riff managed to restore Zoë to her pre-burned condition.[13] Zoë is half-Korean.

Albania was the only country in Nazi-occupied Europe which saw an increase in its Jewish population, because Albanian Jews were not turned over to the Germans thanks to an Albanian set of laws which is known as the Besa from the Kanun.

Feel like that one should be a bit more than a detail but maybe time was short

Grbac was featured as People's Sexiest Athlete in 1998. Sportswriter Jeff Pearlman said this was a mistake by a photographer who, under instructions to profile "the Chiefs quarterback", accidentally took pictures of Grbac instead of the intended Rich Gannon.[24] The story was later confirmed by a People employee.[25]

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neither knew it was a diss track nor that it was a Dr. Richard Schuckberg joint, that dude had his hands in everything i

Shoulda heard Washington's clapback , "Ain't Nobody Know Who You Are"

This entire article, which has cropped up from out of nowhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Coldplay

And this one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_Music_of_the_Spheres_World_Tour

That article is longer than those for many wars

Birth name Rory David Best
Date of birth 15 August 1982 (age 41)
Place of birth Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Height 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)

Additionally, the band spawned many tribute acts, with examples encompassing Coldplace (f. 2003),[225] Coldplayers (f. 2007),[226] Goldplay (f. 2010),[227] Coldplayed (f. 2012),[228] Ultimate Coldplay (f. 2017),[229] and Coldplay Experience (f. 2022), all of which are currently active.[230]

These Coldplay articles are the most meticulously referenced I've ever seen.

Distribution of film then languished for several years, until Azimi cut his wrist in front of officials of the French Ministry of Culture.[3]

Voodoo dolls are also featured in one episode of The Woody Woodpecker Show (1961),[5] as well as in the British musical Lisztomania (1975) and the films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998).

Quality Street gained the implied endorsement of Saddam Hussein when the Iraqi leader was reported to have offered them to visiting British politician George Galloway in 2002. Nestlé were initially positive, but then chose to backtrack about the connection.

In a 2003 interview, O'Leary praised the Socialist Workers Party but quipped that they would "take all of (his) money", so he instead supported the Labour Party.[31]

Scott had a pronounced limp. He was described in 1820 as "tall, well formed (except for one ankle and foot which made him walk lamely), neither fat nor thin, with forehead very high, nose short, upper lip long and face rather fleshy, complexion fresh and clear, eyes very blue, shrewd and penetrating, with hair now silvery white".

The Chansiri name brings great shame to Sheffield Wednesday and the people of Sheffield.

A sequel, Jesus II, was released on the PC-8801, PC-9801, and X68000 in 1991.

A statement regarding Nancy Benoit's death was added to the Chris Benoit English Wikipedia article 14 hours before police discovered the bodies of Benoit and his family. This seemingly prescient addition was initially reported on Wikinews and later on Fox News. The article originally read: "Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW World Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy." The phrase "stemming from the death of his wife Nancy" was added at 4:01 a.m. EDT on June 25, whereas the Fayette County police reportedly discovered the bodies of the Benoit family at 2:30 p.m. EDT (10 hours, 29 minutes later). The IP address of the editor was traced to Stamford, Connecticut, which is also the location of WWE headquarters.[109] After news of the early death notice reached mainstream media, the anonymous poster accessed Wikinews to explain his edit as a "huge coincidence and nothing more."[110][111]

Police detectives "seized computer equipment from the man held responsible for the postings" and called the posting an unbelievable "hindrance" to their investigation, but believed he was otherwise uninvolved, declining to press charges.[112][113] The man had found several rumors online,[114] which supported his theory about the Benoit "family emergency" as reported in wrestling news. The IP from which he made the edit was tentatively traced to vandalizing the Wikipedia entries for African wild ass, The Bronx, The Sopranos, Ron Artest, Stacy Keibler, and Naugatuck, Connecticut.[115] He also reverted vandalism to Chavo Guerrero Jr.[116] and recorded a loss for the Golden State Warriors.[117]

"Buddha, an orangutan, played Clyde in the Clint Eastwood action-comedy film Any Which Way You Can (1980). Buddha was allegedly beaten to death by his trainer for stealing doughnuts from craft services. The weapon was an axe handle wrapped in newspaper and had been nicknamed a "Buddha club" since it had been previously used to discipline him.[2] This claim has been disputed by the author William Munns."

"During the peak of her career, she was acclaimed as Pennsylvania's top female Jewish rapper."

In late December 1992, Coca-Cola Co. president Doug Ivester told a gathering of New York reporters that Tab Clear was being positioned as part of the "mainstream of diet soft drinks" and was "not a new-age beverage".[6] He declared:

Consumers want an alternative new soft drink with a lot of flavor. A new-age label would doom it. It would be aiming too low to go up against Crystal Pepsi and Clearly Canadian.

honestly the whole article reads like it could easily be a sophisticated forgery (i've never heard of this beverage). it's pretty fucking hilarious.

In the US and UK, Coca-Cola launched a heavy ad campaign for TaB clear with Chain of Mystery[10] and Sinister Connections,[11] linking TaB Clear with unintentionally being the cause of various historical events with the slogan "Suddenly everything is clear". Several radio ads were created as well, such as an ad about TaB Clear being an "eternal paradox"[12] and an ad where "Drink TaB Clear" is discovered when a song is played backwards. A very different ad campaign was created in Japan with ads mostly unrelated to each other and either featuring or voiced over by a Japanese spokesman.

Unlike most other "clear" soft drinks, Tab Clear contained caffeine[1] and, according to the company, had the flavor of cola.[3][4]

there's also echoes of the New Coke conspiracy theory:

In his 2011 book, Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry, Stephen Denny published an interview with former Coca-Cola Chief Marketing Officer Sergio Zyman that stated the formation and subsequent failure of Tab Clear was a deliberate move to destroy Crystal Pepsi, capitalizing on the public's lack of understanding of Pepsi's heavily marketed product. Tab Clear was marketed as a diet drink, which were less popular than traditional colas, and the Tab brand in general was seen as an inferior product to flagships like Coca-Cola or Pepsi. With Tab Clear being placed in such close proximity to Crystal Pepsi, the image of both brands would be damaged in what Zyman called a "kamikaze" strategy. "This is like a cola," Zyman explained, "but it doesn't have any color. It has all this great taste. And we said, 'No, Crystal Pepsi is actually a diet drink.' Even though it wasn't. Because Tab had the attributes of diet, which was its demise. That was its problem. It was perceived to be a medicinal drink. Within three or five months, Tab Clear was dead. And so was Crystal Pepsi."[18]

good job on Zyman for killing the "goliath" that was Crystal Pepsi, though.

ah yes, the Tommy Wiseau strategy ("actually it was a comedy!").

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I miss those stubby little glass bottles.

Inspired by the surprise ending of the supernatural thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), the strings-led, dramatic contemporary R&B ballad is about a woman who is confused with her partner's recent change in behavior and goes into denial about it.

According to an interview with Yoshimitsu Banno by the Japanese magazine Eiga Hi-Ho, Hedorah's eyes were modeled after vaginas.[2]