This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Shocking there was another nightclub fire involving pyrotechnics and flammable acoustic tiles just a few years after the Station nightclub disaster.

All the vaudeville comedians probably died premature deaths because everyone thought they were doing a bit

See Tommy Cooper in that listicle.

That Scaccia death really sucked. Hard to believe it's already been 12 years

Actor and comedian Joe E. Ross suffered a heart attack and died while performing on stage on the evening of 13 August. His wife reportedly collected just half of Ross's fee because he had failed to do a full show.

My God that's cold

Actor Renato Di Paolo was portraying Judas in a passion play outside of Rome on the day before Easter. During the hanging scene he accidentally hanged himself, and died soon after

Jesus how many Judases accidentally hung themselves

I've been compulsively reading the list of unusual deaths as well.

A poodle named Cachy, in Caballito, Buenos Aires, fell 13 floors and hit 75-year-old Marta Espina, killing both instantly. In the course of events, 46-year-old Edith Solá came to see the incident and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital.[254][255]

This one is haunting me

1861: The four Gale sisters were a team of British ballerinas who were appearing at Philadelphia's Continental Theater. They were among eight dancers who died when Zelia Gale's gauze dress caught on fire from a gas tube. The deadly flames spread to the other three sisters Hannah, Ruth, and Adeline when they tried to rescue their sibling.

*gulp*

The Aristocrats

I wouldn't mind going out like this

On March 24, 1975, Alex Mitchell, from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, featuring a kilt-clad Scotsman with his bagpipes battling a master of the Lancastrian martial art "Eckythump", who was armed with a black pudding. After 25 minutes of continuous laughter, Mitchell then slumped on the sofa and died from heart failure. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments of life so pleasant.

Jesus how many Judases accidentally hung themselves

It's the "Omen/Theater of Blood" crossover I never knew I needed!

xxxp to Matt #2 also horrifying is that most people did not know that the best way to react is to "stop, drop, and roll" if you are on fire until very recently

https://www.aarbf.org/the-origins-of-stop-drop-and-roll/

According to Vincenzoni, Richard Harris had begun to drink heavily on set after reading a tabloid magazine and seeing a photograph of his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He reportedly intended to stop performing and fly to Malibu in order to kill them, relenting only after getting into a brawl which resulted in Vincenzoni getting a black eye.[9] The 46-year-old Harris insisted on performing his own stunts in the polar sequences and was nearly killed on several occasions.[3]

the young men are described as "short, and blond, and full of creme",[10] with creme being a euphemism for semen.

That's one fancy Twinkie.

Might skip crème brûlée for my dessert.

In 2018 the Elevator Repair Service premiered a sequel written by Kate Scelsa, titled Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf. This play introduces new plot elements such as vampirism.[36]

Horrible story and very sad but this detail caught my eye:

Detmar Blow went on to have an affair with Stephanie Theobald, the society editor of British Harper's Bazaar,[19] while his estranged wife entered into a liaison with a gondolier she met in Venice.

From the wiki page of Neil Buchanan, presenter of Art Attack et al:

Buchanan was in a heavy metal band called Marseille which formed in 1976: they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, releasing four albums and six singles, touring America and performing with Judas Priest, Nazareth and Whitesnake.

It was either this or the 'shockingly old" thread.

In November 1933, Donenfeld drafted Armer to form a company called Super Magazines which ended up specializing in the mixed girlie/genre pulps, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, Spicy Mystery and Spicy Western. After getting charged with obscenity, and narrowly escaping jail, Donenfeld changed the name of Super Magazines to Culture Publications.

This was the first album by the Raspberries to feature songs with profanity. Those songs were "Starting Over", which featured the word "fucking" once, and the song "Party’s Over", which featured the word "shit" twice.

Those songs were "Starting Over", which featured the word "fucking" once,

Have I been listening to a different song all these years?

Same

It's in the first line. Tho he kind of mumbles it.

Wow, there goes it's chances of being used as the theme tune for a 70s sitcom about a recently divorced couple slowly falling back in love.

Now I'm wondering why I never noticed it before.

I went down a rabbit hole earlier reading about ancient eastern European tribes and ended up learning about an Iranic nomadic group called the Alans, who got about quite a bit but the last vestiges of are in modern-day Ossetia. couldn't stop thinking "a-ha!" the whole time though

(Factually inaccurate) Horrible Histories sketch which plays on the name of that tribe.

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

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

Career Sidelights

In his 1968 book Vibrations, he describes making an omelette for Charlie Parker with "fried onions, marmalade, maple syrup, bacon, tomatoes, covered with hot mayonnaise with some garlic fried in it and a little cheese sauce", saying they "wolfed down portions of it" with borscht and orange soda.[23]

thread delivers

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

The title was taken out of print after a business dispute between Sonic Youth and SST led to the deletion of all Sonic Youth titles from the SST catalog, although the title did remain on SST catalog inserts for a few years afterward; as of the spring of 2007, no new edition of From Here to Infinity is planned, although used/leftover copies of the CD trade for an average of $14 to $28 on such sites as Half.com.

Jimi Haha started a band in 2002 called Jarflys. They put out a record called Anonymous. They continue to play in Annapolis. They have never had a band practice.

About a week after, Roscoe Dillon takes possession of another comatose body and begins wreaking havoc on anyone Barry Allen knew. The final straw comes when he digs up the grave of Iris Allen (who was dead at the time).

On the 1994 in Music page, Patti Labelle's album "Gems" is listed as "Germs"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_music

Jimi Haha started a band in 2002 called Jarflys. They put out a record called Anonymous. They continue to play in Annapolis. They have never had a band practice.

This is a Shellac lyric

lol, i started reading that Wikipedia page and got distracted by something but that part definitely jumped out at me

In October 2019, Banks announced that she would perform under the name Azilka (Russian: Азилька) during her tour in the former Soviet Union.[1]

On August 8, 2020, Banks announced that she intended to end her life by euthanasia and document the process on film.[107]

In February 2021, Banks publicly announced her engagement to American artist Ryder Ripps.[108] They made an audio sex tape and sold it using NFT, which was then up for resale for $260 million.[109] In March, Banks announced the end of the relationship.[110]

like...an audio sex tape? is that what they did in the 1940s

Pretty sure that's what "Louie Louie" was

ok that whole page is unusual details:

In January 2021, she received criticism after posting a video on Instagram of her digging up and cooking her dead pet cat. She later said in an interview that she did not eat the cat and exhumed it for taxidermizing purposes.[145][146][147]

these are all completely normal details for Azealia

the Anti-Grimes

the Anti-Grimes

20Ten received mixed reviews from most music critics. Columnist Tony Parsons reviewed the album for the Daily Mirror, the newspaper marketing the album.[21] He wrote that it was "as good as [Prince's] all-time classics like Purple Rain and 1999 " and that it's "his best record since Sign o' the Times 23 years ago."[22]

a rare moment of spouting shit from Parshole

the video features busta in a post apocalyptic future...fighting a genetically engineered warrior and also uniting his people against "the man".

Stolt and his wife Lilian have two sons, Johan Sebastian and Peter Gabriel, named after two of his all-time musical idols.

Saw this Parsehole quote on the tube, the man has been a professional writer for nearly half a century, jfc

https://i.imgur.com/bkMMV9M.png

novel use for 4dx that

In 1990, at the age of 38, Kramer co-founded Total Multimedia Inc. with Randy Jackson (brother of Michael Jackson) to develop data compression techniques for CD-ROMs.[5][6] The firm claims it developed the first video compression capable of producing full motion video from a single speed CD-ROM in 1992. In 1994 the company was reorganized under bankruptcy and hired new leadership. Kramer continued working there until his disappearance, though he was profoundly affected by the bankruptcy and reorganization.[4][6] Kramer co-developed SoftVideo based on fractal compression and he also claimed to work on a transmission project that would result in faster-than-light speed communications. The latter related to his father Ray's long-running family effort to discredit Albert Einstein's theories.[6]