This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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]

Mister Meringue's name comes from mister and meringue, a type of desert.

wow crazy, i have the same origin story

"Because Tab had the attributes of diet, which was its demise."

Enjoying this sentence

I still remember the taste of Tab. I would argue that it's one of the reasons anything "diet" was associated with things tasting horrible.

It was all my mom drank in the 80s and when I was allowed to have soda that was it so I absolutely love it. I still buy it any time I see it. Would love one right now.

"casino desert" sounds like a sonic level.

"the attributes of diet" sounds like catholic theology.

the main thing i think of when i think of tab is its use in "back to the future", which almost seems to be a film whose 1985 pop-culture reference points were deliberately designed to be ephemeral and age poorly - stuff that's held up about as well as mrs. wagner's pies. i'm not sure it was deliberate, given that the screenwriter went on to write "tattoo assassins", which was bad, but which i don't think was deliberately designed to be, no matter what sergio zyman says.

I miss those stubby little glass bottles.

― pplains

i talk with my girlfriend sometimes about how actually seeing the past would be so different from what we remember it. like, for instance, when we remember 1982, we tend to think of 1982 stuff, but for me, 1982 involved a lot of leftover 1970s stuff, old bicentennial tat and so forth. and my girlfriend points out, i think she's right, that one of the first things we'd notice about 1982, aside from everything smelling like cigarette smoke, is all the glass bottles. styrofoam, too, i think you'd probably see a lot more styrofoam.

maybe there are some '80s tv shows that are put together like that, but i don't think people would enjoy that aesthetic a lot. strict realism doesn't necessarily translate to media that's enjoyable to experience.

I like seeing 70's shows with brand new cars like Broncos - I was so used to seeing 70's car rusted and falling apart in the late 90's

Kate, your last point was delved into in this thread:

In every 70s US home ever

If I could quote myself from that...

This is an important point, that the '70s - like any decade - were still heavily characterized by the immediately preceding decades. When I think of the '70s I remember a lot of stuff of a design reflecting the '60s Laugh-In aesthetic of bright Day-Glo colors, flowers, op-art, funny slogans. Also lots of graphic reproductions of Robert Indiana's "LOVE" sculpture. Stuff like this gradually went out of fashion in the early '70s but it didn't all just suddenly disappear, it remained in people's houses for a while. I also remember in the early-to-mid '70s there will still lots of cars with fins on them parked on the street.

Stranger Things does a pretty decent job of capturing (my recollection of) the mid-80s aesthetic.

yah, one thing I liked about it was how the Winona Ryder house in particular captured that sense of stuff bought in the 70s and still predominating. very much matched most of the houses i was ever in as a kid in the early/mid 80s.

"the attributes of diet" sounds like catholic theology.

Ha, exactly what I was thinking

Weldon's work designing album art spans over 30 years and several genres including classic rock, 70s funk, and modern cult-indie rock. Weldon designed a large percentage of the album covers released in Canada between 1971 and 1974. Weldon's work includes cover art for the 1972 release of 's . His cover work for 's 1974 would lead, thirty years later, to the Rush-influenced NYC indie-rockers commissioning Weldon to do the cover art for their 2005 eponymous debut LP, which bears a similarity to the original Rush record.

Weldon's designs often incorporates found materials (comic book clippings, dollar bills, science photos).

Four Star Playhouse, an anthology series, did not utilize a laugh-track or audience on its occasional comedy episodes, with co-producer David Niven calling the laugh track "wild indiscriminate mirth"

The music on this album is the most overtly Celtic music Mike Oldfield has produced. The album was originally recorded using only acoustic hand-played instruments. After the daughter of a Warner Music exec said it sounded boring, Oldfield added synthesizers and more instruments to the album.[3]

I'd never looked much into Timothy Leary, so about 3 or so minutes into reading his wiki I started thinking "there's no way the Grateful Dead didn't cross paths with him." Sure enough:

Although he considered her the "great love of his life", Leary and Barbara divorced in 1992; according to friend and collaborator John Perry Barlow, "Tim basically gave me permission to be her lover. He couldn't be for her what she needed sexually, so it made more sense for him to anoint someone to do that for him."

classic Tim

During an interview with Howard Stern, Martin said that his dislike of "Speed of Sound" stems from the fact that he "forgot the banana lyric for the song. A banana lyric is a staple in every song we've made and somehow I forgot to write one for Speed of Sound."[8]