This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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]

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"Jeff Dahl"

opening with a 1944 quote from Joseph Goebbels: "The enemy (invading German territory) will be taken in the rear by the fanatical population, which will ceaselessly worry him, tie down strong forces and allow him no rest

New Line Cinema rejected this idea due to the film Little Nicky (2000) having been partially set in Hell while also being a box-office bomb, deterring the company from producing another film set in Hell at that time.[22][23]

Peach is a prominent mango on the social media platform TikTok

"Dr. Gay Hitler" redirects here. Not to be confused with Gay Hitler.

"the attributes of diet" sounds like catholic theology.

Ha, exactly what I was thinking

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lol, yes, amazing

An improperly managed human defecation resulted in a tomato plant taking root, which was also destroyed.

Ed Begley Jr. arrived on set unprepared for his first day of filming as a tennis pro, explaining that he had no idea how to play tennis, resulting in the director shooting around Begley's inability to play the sport, and the actor was also difficult to costume, because, as a dedicated environmentalist, Begley would not wear any animal-based clothing such as leather.

She starred in Nazi propaganda films during the Third Reich, which she wrote about in a 1949 memoir I Was Hitler's Mickey Mouse.

lmao at the Ed Begley Jr bit

Some Dutch fans were forced to take off their trousers branded with the logo of Bavaria beer, as Budweiser was the official beer of the tournament.[44][45] Rather than leave the stadium, they proceeded to watch the match in their underclothes.

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland was born in North Kensington, London on 29 February 1928,[3] the son of Major Sydney Norman Ackland (died 1981), an Irish journalist who had been sent to England to live with an aunt by his parents for seducing their maid, but subsequently seduced his aunt's maid, Ruth Izod (died 1957), whom he married.[4][5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Kelly_(footballer,_born_1996)

(The unusual detail being that someone called Liam Patrick Kelly played for Rangers for 12 years).

Love how either E.O. Wilson or Stephen Jay Gould has chipped in on the page about the 2000AD character Nemesis the Warlock, with this:

Warlocks are a sexually dimorphic species of aliens who are capable of sorcery. Both males and females are horned, fire-breathing and of demonic appearance; females have a centaur-like quadrupedal morphology while males are bipedal but have unusual combination plantigrade / digitigrade leg joints, somewhat resembling satyrs.

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

i was having a friendly argument with friends. i was telling my brother about the truly superb manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (finally being published officially in English), a slice-of-life manga about a lesbian robot running a little country coffee shop after the apocalypse. my brother was disappointed. "that's not a robot," he said. "that's an android."

"wouldn't that be a gynoid?", one of my friends asks. it's true, "android" is a gendered term. "gynoid", though, as a term that's hardly better than "fembot". at best, "gynoid" makes me think of Hajime Sorayama, creator of the "Sexy Robot" series of art books that were all the rage in certain circles when i was younger, and at worst with, well, just plain robot sex dolls.

my argument was that the characters in the novel refer to themselves, and are referred to, as human robots, that this term is perfectly fine, and that using "android" should be deprecated as the default term for a human robot. just out of curiosity i looked up "gynoid".

“Sweetheart”, shown with its creator, Clayton Bailey; the busty feminine robot (also a functional coffee maker) created a controversy after it was displayed at the Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley. The robot's creator, a professor of art at California State University, Hayward called this "censorship" and "next to book burning".

just as heinrich heine said: where they burn books they will, in the end, burn coffee too

Awards and honors
1984 – U.S. Patent #4440390 awarded for a "Novelty Cup for Forcibly Ejecting Liquid."
1998 – Celestial Seasonings, Inc. "A Loose Interpretation III," Boulder, CO, Received Honorable Mention for creation of Celeste, the Robot Teabag

i'm assuming here that celeste, in fact, a robot teabag and not a gynoid teabag

not shown: bailey's truly ludicrous mustache

Humanoid would suffice surely?

hmmm, i guess technically... does that mean that the player character in "berzerk" (by the way i've read all 5,632 chapters of the manga and the video game is a _terrible_ adaptation) is a human robot? i guess it's possible... the title character of "humanoid woman" (a terrible dub of the excellent film _per aspera ad astra_ is a robot, right? i did, when i was young, think of the "berzerk" video game as being about robots hunting down the last human or whatever. kinda makes it less dramatic if it's just robots hunting other robots imo.

also, if you're an android or a gynoid or whatever you _are_ a robot, right? so it's just wrong to say "that's not a robot, that's an android".

anyway i have this idea in my head that "humanoid" is also what robots call humans sometimes. i don't know if that's true or not.

one of my friends suggested "enboid" but noted that robots are all technically binary. binary gender, that's, like... dimorphic gender, right? so like even if i was binary i could be non-dimorphic just because i think the gender binary is bullshit. so "non-gender-dimorphic" doesn't really work either. god. language is complicated.

by the way if i search "humanoid woman" i get youtube videos talking about "female humanoid robots". i think that might just be even more degrading than "fembot". maybe it's just because TERFs describe women like we're all robots. ADULT HUMANOID FEMALE ROBOTS. or something.

anyway.

Baba Lamunade (Voiced by Takeshi Kusao): Lamunade bears a good resemblance to his father, since he is his son and the hero of the series. He is different from Ramune as he is less interested in video games than his father, but nevertheless amazed by them. He falls in love with more than one girl; apart from Parfait he develops sentimental feelings for Drum. He has the same catch phrase that his father uses ("I'm feeling incredibly hot blooded!!! RIGHT NOW!!!) and sometimes states a fact by saying that it is written in his DNA.

the whole wikipedia series of entries on this anime is fucking gold, honestly.

fyi while the OP to the anime in question is awesome it is _not_ "baby lemonade" by syd barrett. i'll give them a pass on that though.

Hall is the cousin of U.S. Army officer David N. McKenna. He still owes £700 for a car he bought from his friend, Owen Thomas.

According to the September 12, 2007, study by the Blacksmith Institute, Dzerzhinsk is one of the worst-polluted cities of the world and has a life expectancy of 42 years for men and 47 for women, with the 2003 death rate exceeding its birth rate by 260%.[12] Environmental action groups such as Greenpeace attribute such low life expectancy to high levels of persistent organic chemicals, particularly dioxins. The Blacksmith Institute also names sarin, lewisite, sulfur mustard, hydrogen cyanide, phosgene, lead, and organic chemicals among the worst pollutants.[12] Parts of Dzerzhinsk's water are contaminated with dioxins and phenol at levels that are reportedly seventeen million times the safe limit.[12]

Dzerzhinsk's environmental agency estimates that almost 300,000 tons of chemical waste were dumped in the city between 1930 and 1998.[citation needed] The Ecology Committee of the Russian State Duma also considers Dzerzhinsk among the top ten cities with disastrous ecological conditions.[13]

Dzerzhinsk's City Administration, however, asserts that the Blacksmith Institute report is false, stating, for example, that since sarin had never been produced in the city (seems to be credible according to Fedorov, p262, Table 7.1),[14] it cannot be one of the major pollutants. Also, according to the city's health department, the average life expectancy in the city was 64 years in 2006. Askhat Kayumkov, the head of the Dront public ecological organization, which was quoted as a source by the Blacksmith Institute, states that his organization never provided the Blacksmith Institute with data of any kind. Furthermore, he does not believe that Dzerzhinsk is one of the most polluted cities in Russia, much less in the whole world.[15]

In the end, however, despite the ecological situation in the city being at its best in the previous 80 years (mostly due to bankruptcies and closures of the polluting factories), several locations in the city pose a tangible ecological risk. These sites include the 110ha Igumnovo landfill, toxic waste burial grounds, and a so-called "White Sea", composed of disposed chemical wastes.[16] These sites are kept under constant ecological monitoring.[citation needed]

seems like a perfectly lovely place to live, i trust entirely the city administration of the town named for the first head of the soviet secret police

Sights

Shukhov Tower on the Oka River, the unique architectural construction—the 128-meter (420 ft) steel lattice hyperboloid tower built by Soviet engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov in 1929—is located near Dzerzhinsk on the left bank of the Oka River. There used to be two towers, but one was stolen for scrap metal in 2005.

go see shukhov tower, before the other one gets stolen for scrap metal

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album 4 stars stating

"the real pleasure lies in the experience of hearing it"

Hedwig Kiesler (age 19), later American movie actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, married Friedrich Mandl (age 32), businessman and Austrofascist, in the tiny chapel of this elaborate church on 10 August 1933. With over 200 prominent guests attending, Kiesler wore "a black-and-white print dress" and carried "a bouquet of white orchids."[4]

In 1974, Glick worked as Telly Savalas's personal assistant. Savalas was mean, so Glick embezzled $85,000 from him. He was caught on his way to Ecuador and served a four-month hard labor sentence in Mississippi.[3]

Margaret Rutherford

Rutherford's early life was overshadowed by tragedies involving both of her parents. Her father, journalist and poet William Rutherford Benn, married Florence Nicholson on 16 December 1882 in Wandsworth, South London. One month after the marriage, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum. Released to travel under his family's supervision, he murdered his father, the Reverend Julius Benn, a Congregational Church minister, by bludgeoning him to death with a chamber pot, before slashing his own throat with a pocket knife at an inn in Matlock, Derbyshire on 4 March 1883.[1][2]

Following the inquest, William Benn was certified insane and removed to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Seven years later, on 26 July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor and reunited with his wife. He legally dropped his surname.

Margaret Taylor Rutherford, the only child of William and Florence, was born in 1892 in Balham, South London. Margaret's uncle, Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, was a politician, and her first cousin once removed was the Labour politician Tony Benn. Hoping to start a new life far from the scene of their recent troubles, the Rutherfords emigrated to Madras, India, but Margaret was sent back to Britain when she was three years old to live with her aunt Bessie Nicholson in Wimbledon, South London, after her pregnant mother hanged herself from a tree.

Mike Flanagan would like to buy the option

Milei owns five English Mastiffs, with the progenitor being Conan, who died in 2017 after suffering from spinal cancer. He considers Conan his son and has named four of Conan's six clones, including one named after the original and another named Angelito, Milton (in honor of Milton Friedman), Murray (in honor of Murray Rothbard), Robert, and Lucas (both named after Robert Lucas Jr.).

[Lawrence Eagleburger] had three sons, all of whom are named Lawrence Eagleburger, though they have different middle names (Scott, Andrew and Jason).[28] When discussing his decision to give his three children the same first name, Eagleburger stated "It was ego," adding "and secondly, I wanted to screw up the Social Security system."[29]

6 Controversies
6.1 Exposing teenagers' genitals and simulating sex during 'Hide the Sausage'
6.1.1 Teenagers during Little Britain Down Under
6.1.2 Exposing Jeremy Edwards' genitals and Mark Ronson's buttocks
6.1.3 Criticism and violent reaction from theatre goers

is it bad that I know who's Wiki article that is just from that

*whose

A nobleman, Gustaf is the 11th Baron Lagerbielke and the oldest son of the 8th Count Lagerbjelke.

https://e0.365dm.com/23/08/768x432/skysports-gustaf-lagerbielke_6253107.jpg

And somehow, the father of the 7th Count of Lagerbelk or whatever

. At the time, no company made a (guitar)string that could be tuned to the high A on his classical guitar. Breau used fishing line of the correct gauge[8] until the La Bella company began making a string for him. T

In July 2016, it emerged that in Series 9, Episode 6 called "Troubled Waters" – in which Elvis slips on a piece of paper and falls into a stack of sheets of paper, causing them to fly everywhere – one of the flying pages that briefly came into view was identified as a page from the Quran: "Surah Mulk (67), verses 13–26".[10] The production company Mattel apologised for this accident, removed the episode from broadcast, and ceased work with Xing Xing, the animation company responsible for the error. Mattel stated: "Someone from the production company thought they were just putting in random text.[10] We have no reason to believe it was done maliciously."

(this is referring to a kids show called Fireman Sam in case that helps context).

Some random book we have lying around the office.

In July 2005, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich performed at the Merryhill Music Festival at the Merryhill Leisure naturist club in Norfolk, England.

This greatly diminished the emotional impact of the final scene.

At one point in his life, Cage had decided that he wanted to develop the philosophical aspect of his nature, and he went on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Cage traveled to England to look for it, but also looked at some areas of the United States.[178][179]

None of Wild Cherry's three subsequent albums were very popular.

Shot by Eric Boman, the Country Life cover features two scantily-clad models, Constanze Karoli (sister of Can's Michael Karoli) and Eveline Grunwald (who was also Michael Karoli's girlfriend). Bryan Ferry met them in Portugal and persuaded them to do the photo shoot as well as to help him with the words to the song "Bitter-Sweet". Although not credited for appearing on the cover, they are credited on the lyric sheet for their German translation work.

His family moved to Oakland, California, when he was eight. Initially, they shared a home in Oakland with his cousins, four of whom became members of the rhythm & blues group The Pointer Sisters.

Frankenstein was an unpaid project, Wrightson describing it as a "labor of love" he worked on over seven years.[24]

In the summer of 2010, Stuke was featured on Celebrity MasterChef, where it was discovered that he was not a very good chef, despite his claim that he was.

Ugh

When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progressing to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump."