This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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]

For the band, see Angkor Wat (band). For the Yes song, see Union (Yes album).

Tony Shepherd (who'd played with jazz bands and drummed for Cambridge bands The Wobbly Jellies and Somewhere in the Foreign Office, the latter of which had featured future satirist Chris Morris on bass)

[Tippi Hedren] was also instrumental in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons.[1][2][3]

wut

Yep! She figures large in a documentary a few years ago about the refugee diaspora, let me see me if it's online...

Ok, found it. The whole thing is worth a watch but ffwd to ~5m25s:

https://vimeo.com/277733437

Woah this puts a new spin on James Nguyen’s friendship with Hedren may not be based entirely on his line of Hitchcock.

Knew about that but always good to be reminded.

Tippi had a pet lion that lived with her

She did a movie with Melanie G where they lived with lions for a while while shooting called roar - it did not go well! Hang on ...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/noel-marshalls-roar-humans-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-film

Thank you, SS. Will watch.

Trump's latest lawyer

In July 2021, Habba represented Siggy Flicker, a former member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey who alleged that Facebook had disabled her account for wishing Melania Trump a happy birthday.[18][22][23] Habba wrote a letter to Facebook, which Facebook appeared to ignore.[24]

Siggly Flickers is my favorite Filly Crystal film

Baseball bats are often used as weapons by civilians,[29] criminals, protesters,[30] and mobsters.[31] Factors that made the baseball bat a popular weapon include:

• -* Price; Baseball bats are cheaper to buy and easier to maintain than firearms or bladed weapons.
• -* Legality; Unlike firearms, bladed weapons, pepper spray, or stun guns, baseball bats are not considered a weapon by many jurisdictions due to being sporting equipment. However, some jurisdictions may ban carrying sporting equipment in public without good reason.[32]
• -* Ease of access; Baseball bats are freely available in stores such as sporting goods stores. They don't require a background check, license, or permit.[33]
• -* Ease of use; Baseball bats (like many other bludgeon weapons) only require the user to swing at the target in order for it to be effective.
• -* Diversity; Baseball bats come in various sizes from T-ball bats to full size bats. They can cater to the users strength, size, and available storage places.

I’m sold! I’m buying a baseball bat as my next weapon.

ok this is clearly not written from a NPOV. you can't fuckin' _conceal_ a baseball bat. what, they think i can just walk around the streets carrying around a big fuckin' bat like i'm fuckin' harley quinn or something? what am i supposed to do, strap one to my leg and just accuse them of being transphobic if they make a big deal out of it? (note to cis people - do not try to make that joke yourself.)

we keep one under the front desk where i work

i don't find it very reassuring

xxp none of that has anything at all to do about the feasibility of you carrying one around the streets to fend off transphobes

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

According to Ernest Jones, the portrait convinced Sigmund Freud that Shakespeare was French: "He insisted that his countenance could not be that of an Anglo-Saxon but must be French, and he suggested that the name was a corruption of Jacques Pierre."

Everyone thinks they're a badass when they carry a bat around, but tell them "fine, take a crack at me", they swing like Dave Valle

in regards to the tippi hedren lion story, there is a whole photo spread Life magazine had done https://www.life.com/animals/something-wild-at-home-with-tippi-hedren-melanie-griffith-and-a-400-pound-lion/

How on earth did that family not get mauled to death?

There were 48 cast and crew injured in the first two years of production, with another 20-50 (estimates vary) in subsequent years.

Of the family members, per wikip,

Noel Marshall was bitten through the hand when he interacted with male lions during a fight scene; doctors initially feared that he might lose his arm… By the time he suffered eight puncture wounds on his leg caused by a lion which was curious about his anti-reflection makeup, Marshall had already been bitten around eleven times. He was hospitalized when his face and chest were injured and was diagnosed with blood poisoning. Marshall was also diagnosed with gangrene after being attacked many times. It took several years to fully recover from his injuries.

During a promo shoot in 1973, Hedren was bitten in the head by a lion, Cherries, whose teeth scraped against her skull. She was taken to Sherman Oaks Hospital, where her wounds were treated and she was given a tetanus shot. She was admitted to Antelope Valley Hospital after Tembo, the five-ton elephant, picked her up with his trunk by the ankle, fracturing it before bucking her off his back… She was left with phlebitis and gangrene, in addition to a fractured hand and abrasions on her leg. …Hedren was also scratched on the arm by a leopard and bitten on the chest by a cougar.

Griffith received 50 sutures after being attacked by a lioness. It was feared that she would lose an eye, but she eventually recovered without being disfigured, although she did require some facial reconstruction.

A lion jumped on John Marshall and bit the back of his head, inflicting a wound that required 56 sutures.

Jerry Marshall was bitten in the thigh by a lion while he was in a cage on set, and he was in hospital alongside Hedren for a month.

The story about Roar is just one of the craziest things. I think about it quite often tbh.

Baseball bats are often used as weapons by civilians,[29] criminals, protesters,[30] and mobsters.[31]

My soon to be 80 year old dad keeps a bat in the trunk of his car but as far as I know has never actually used it as a weapon.

The production notes on the Roar Wikipedia page are an eye opener. The 70s was a foreign country, they did things differently there.

Mentioned this before, but both Tippi Hedren and Jayne Mansfield had kids who were mauled by lions

Roar is a fascinating watch but very uncomfortable, really more for the unconsidered treatment of the animals than of the people (tho both are alarming). Jan de Bont also among the near-mortally wounded iirc.

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

According to Ernest Jones, the portrait convinced Sigmund Freud that Shakespeare was French: "He insisted that his countenance could not be that of an Anglo-Saxon but must be French, and he suggested that the name was a corruption of Jacques Pierre."

― Zelda Zonk

which in turn brought me to

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

the last line of which reads

In 2013 Lego introduced a Shakespeare minifigure.[40]

Thank you ILX for the Roar pointer…underrated part imo:

The script developed with frequent changes but always allowing for inclusion of spontaneous actions by the animals, such as playing with the family's boat or riding a skateboard. This led some of the lions to be credited as writers.[3][32]

OMG

paved the way for this handsome fella

https://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Macaca_nigra_self-portrait.jpg

also many xps but

Siggly Flickers is my favorite Filly Crystal film

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:21 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

rl person Hilly Kristal, surely

Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.

In 2005, the band released a mixtape called Audio-Bio, which was one of their first CDs and contained many of their earliest songs and many songs not available anywhere else.

Bassist Marcus Miller is a cousin of Wynton Kelly's, as are rapper Foxy Brown, and pianist Randy Weston.

In addition, with the advent of the steak cube, an era of luxury street food has begun.[1]

In July 1975, Amin staged a £2 million wedding to 19-year-old Sarah Kyolaba, a go-go dancer with the Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, nicknamed "Suicide Sarah".

Mostly for the name of the band, the rest was par for the course for this lunatic

Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.

This is about Cities Skylines 2 right? What a shitshow that release has been.

While performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children in 1843 Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. At the suggestion of his father, Brunel was strapped to a board and turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.

In 1816, a tooth said to have belonged to Newton was sold for £730[164] in London to an aristocrat who had it set in a ring.[165] Guinness World Records 2002 classified it as the most valuable tooth in the world, which would value approximately £25,000 (US$35,700) in late 2001.[165] Who bought it and who currently has it has not been disclosed.

Lacking financial stability to continue from their records, label, or merchandise sales, the band split up on 2 November 2016.

Species Parrot
Died 26 January 1913
Pontevedra, Spain
Resting place Mourente, Pontevedra
Occupation Pharmacist's pet
Years active 22
Known for Intelligent and sarcastic conversation

Somehow I never heard this bit of trivia (from the Bearsville Studios wiki entry)

In 1988, The Replacements had a 10-day recording session at Bearsville during which they trashed the recording studio and living quarters and played a game they called "dodge knife" that was like dodgeball but using knives.

In August 1969, a collection of poems penned by the seven members of the Association was released as the book Crank Your Spreaders.

i didn't know much about them, honestly - just like a couple of their songs. i knew tandyn almer and curt boettcher were involved, i knew about "along comes mary" and "cherish" and "never my love" and "requiem for the masses". but i didn't know about terry kirkman at all. like, he met frank zappa when he was going to community college in cucamonga and they played coffeehouses together between '59 and '61. the whole la music scene is just wild that way.

Born in Maceió, Alagoas, Pepe was named Kepler Laveran by his father in honour to scientists Johannes Kepler and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran.

Pepe, who is playing for Porto in the Champions League right now at the age of 41!

Went down a pretty grim rabbithole reading about conversion therapy and anti-queer movements, but at least I did find this:

Pliny the Elder attempted to heal alcoholism in the first century Rome by putting putrid spiders in alcohol abusers' drinking glasses.[10]

Now I'm wondering if Russian River knows about this.