This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

"Buddy Holly is gay"

But he has also "resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle".

OVERREACT MUCH? WTF am I missing something here?

ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.

Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt

Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.

The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:

Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.

However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.

The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.

When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)

Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?

One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.

If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?

ROFFLE

Plus, all the slang...

Track listing

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02
2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15
3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39
4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04
5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17
6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56
7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23
8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44
9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37
10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33
11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17
12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51
13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)

it appears to have been edited again, not by me:

"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)

Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.

The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.

After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.

"Plus, all the slang..."
But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?

Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.

First go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_gay_pornography_awards

Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.

Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.

Note the expression on his face.

LOL

Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia.
(...)
His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.

On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life

And in the next chapter:

"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."

Did someone misspell "promo"?

From above:

Dingle is a common placename in the English language, which means "steep wooded valley"

― The Olde, Old, Very Olde Man. (Tom D.)

i hate to say it but it is very popular for us americans to laugh at historic british place names. it's absolutely immature to laugh at, say, the village of Weeley in Clacton-On-Sea, but phonetically, to my american ears, it comes across as very silly. in contrast, native american names don't sound silly at all to me.

thinking about it i don't mean to deride the peoples of great britain. mainly it's a matter of me as a white person making fun of other white people, which is one of the most wholesome pastimes i know. particularly making fun of american or british white people.

in contrast, native american names don't sound silly at all to me

Not even Coxsackie, NY?

I'm sure there are lots of silly sounding ones!

Kickapoo, Kansas!

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump!

These three guys annoy me, and I grew up thinking Mashpee was pretty normal sounding and this is still funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdfSfHiwoZw

Walla Walla, Washington is my fave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)

Italian producers KENT and INDIEF made compilation films which met mixed reviews. The films used music tracks from the James Bond films From Russia with Love and Thunderball, for UFO's composer, Barry Gray, had his name confused with Bond composer John Barry.

Tesco Personal Finance recorded a 20% increase in calls from people wanting to take out life insurance policies. A spokesman attributed the surge to people watching Rachel's death in a car accident.[20]

Early reports describe the album as a return to a high-energy rock sound, with up-tempo songs reminiscent of the band's earlier work while continuing the melodic alternative rock style established across their discography. [3]

unusual?

yeah it's a pointless section - 'new Foos album will sound like every other Foos album'

During Alice Cooper's 1973–1974 Billion Dollar Babies tour, Randi performed on stage both as a mad dentist and as Cooper's executioner.[29] He also built several of the stage props, including the guillotine.[30]

holy shit how did I not know this

In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone allegedly smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". According to the archaic Sunni belief,[30] by the accusation of one boy, the Persian of an unknown faith was suspected of sacrilege, where Sunnis of Mecca "have turned the circumstance to their own advantage" by assaulting, beating random Persians and forbidding them from Hajj until the ban was overturned by the order of Muhammad Ali.

Not *that* Muhammad Ali. *That* Muhammad Ali appears in a photo in the very next section, however.

Wanting a change in direction from their previous studio album Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger is a new wave and synth-pop record, with emphasis on synthesiser-based textures.

Background
Desmond Child, who produced the album, got the idea for the title after hearing the Bush song "Glycerine". Child misheard the title as "Kiss the Rain". When he was told the correct title, he decided to use "Kiss the Rain" for a future song. While he was working out at the gym with Jon Bon Jovi, Child excitedly telling the singer that "Kiss the Rain" was a great tune with a great title — only to be told that he had totally whiffed on the name of the song. Child thought the misheard lyric made for an "incredibly fresh" title and asked Bon Jovi if he wanted to write a song called "Kiss the Rain." But since Bon Jovi thought the idea was "stupid," Child decided to save it for Myers, whom he was already working with at the time.[3]

In 1985, DWRT-FM (then known as 99.5 RT, now 99.5 Play FM), a radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines, started playing a song billed as "Fade" by Medium (also billed as "Medium" by Fade). DWRT-FM deliberately misnamed the artist and song title to prevent anyone from finding the record and playing it themselves. Additionally, to stop other radio stations from recording it and playing it, DWRT-FM inserted a station ID midway through the track. A year later, another radio station, DWXB-102, revealed the true identity of the song as "More to Lose" by Seona Dancing.[1]

... i.e. Ricky Gervais' band.

From 12 September 2005 he was the presenter of the "More Music Breakfast Show" on Magic 105.4 FM in London, and on DAB, Freeview and Satellite across the UK. His last show was on 30 September 2014, after which he was arrested on the studio's premises.

He liked to live a private, hermit-like life, and once commented that "For some of the time I feel I could be a monk" but that he "couldn't cope with the celibacy."[11][46]

Pomplamoose released an electro funk version on April 1, 2021.[79]

"After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, I Am the World Trade Center toured briefly under the shortened name I Am the World..., but resumed playing under their original name."

I am the world
I am the children

An Ayn Rand reimagining

The creation of this document is considered to mark the end of the prehistory of the Philippines on Monday, April 26, 900 AD, and the formal beginning of its recorded history.[2][3][4]

Towne also played a role in the film's increasing cost by scrapping more barn scenes when he did not like either of two barns built to his specifications.

In 1985, DWRT-FM (then known as 99.5 RT, now 99.5 Play FM), a radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines, started playing a song billed as "Fade" by Medium (also billed as "Medium" by Fade). DWRT-FM deliberately misnamed the artist and song title to prevent anyone from finding the record and playing it themselves. Additionally, to stop other radio stations from recording it and playing it, DWRT-FM inserted a station ID midway through the track. A year later, another radio station, DWXB-102, revealed the true identity of the song as "More to Lose" by Seona Dancing.[1]

― silverfish, Monday, March 9, 2026 6:37 AM (two weeks ago)

yeah i've been hoping to find a recording of that song taken from DWRT, since it was so popular, even though ricky gervais has grown into an extremely shitty person. i have a friend who lived in manila in the '80s... it truly was huge. one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" stories.

meanwhile:

Plot

Ken Taiga is a milquetoast 12-year-old 6th grader living in Hokkaido, Japan, in 199X AD who has a knack on flipping females' skirts and touching their breasts because he can be quite a pervert. (...) In a burst of anger, Ken's Liger birthmark appears, and he rises his palm into the air, shouting the henshin (transforming) command, "LIGER!" which then covers him in demonic, long-haired biomechanical armor. Ken transforms into Jushin Liger to fight the evil forces of the Dragon Empire and its true purposes.

i mean this is basically just go nagai being go nagai, but still.

The rioting that took place became known as the Midland Revolt and drew considerable popular support from the local people. It was led by John Reynolds, otherwise known as 'Captain Pouch' who was thought to be an itinerant pedlar or tinker, by trade, and said to have originated from Desborough, Northamptonshire. He told the protesters he had authority from the King and the Lord of Heaven to destroy enclosures and promised to protect protesters by the contents of his pouch, carried by his side, which he said would keep them from all harm (after he was captured, his pouch was opened; all that was in it was a piece of mouldy cheese).

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

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951). The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel — languishing, heroic, or coquettish — anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel".

In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

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

Vocal recordings of "Chariots of Fire" have been made by Melissa Manchester, Jane Olivor, Mireille Mathieu, Demis Roussos, and various others, all with the lyrics from "Race to the End" provided by Jon Anderson.[25][26][27]

It was played when Apple Inc.'s co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer on 24 January 1984 at a technology demonstration event, and at another press conference celebrating the 100-day anniversary of the release of the first Macintosh.[28][non-prim

Not exactly unusual but this made me lol

Over the Top is a 1987 American sports drama film that combines the emotional drama of a child custody hearing with arm wrestling.

my two favourite hobbies, together at last!

Hollywood Wrestling, also known as Wrestling From Hollywood, is an American professional wrestling television series which originally aired locally in Los Angeles on KTLA in the early 1950s, and by 1952, was broadcast nationally (via kinescope) the improvised Paramount Television Network.

...how the fuck do you "improvise" a television network?

(the answer, i guess, is that you sign an agreement with dumont to buy stakes in their television stations and promote your shows through them and then say no, fuck it, we're gonna set up our own television network and beat the pants off of those dumont yahoos, despite their having, you know, a _financial stake in dumont's success_, while at the same time saying "oh wait you know what we should do, do a merger with ABC instead", and then be like "oh wait you know what maybe not". maybe that's why nobody's heard of the paramount network. unless you mean UPN. which was, uh, slightly _less_ improvised. oh and neither of these are related to the paramount television network barry diller tried to launch in the late '70s, which didn't start broadcasting but which eventually led to his involvement with the creation of the Fox network a few years later.)

Shaw was a lover of Rolls-Royce limousines[37] and a keen practitioner of qigong.[41] Mr. Bean was reportedly his favourite show.[47]

The early Paramount network had lots of affiliates, but most of them only aired a few of their shows, and many only a single show, which I guess could be considered "improvised". Paramount's partial ownership of the DuMont network helped prevent either network from succeeding, as the FCC limited networks from owning more than five stations, and they combined DuMont's three with Paramount's two to make five, thus not allowing either network to have the five stations that ABC, CBS, and NBC each had.

The slightly-built McCulloch was not known to be suicidal or to use heroin or morphine; rather, Scottish spirits were reportedly his years-long usual drug of choice.

Mr. Bean was reportedly his favourite show.

Not wikipedia, but while researching Bean's international popularity I found this post on Quora, a network that has an ALARMING amount of Mr Bean related questions.

Run Run Shaw (c. November 1907 – 7 January 2014), a Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist lived to be 107 years old. His manager Stephen C.W. Chan said that Shaw’s “very fond of watching Mr. Bean” and that's reportedly his favourite show, which perhaps constitutes one of his six secret recipes for having such a long lifespan.

This ‘magic code’ to keep a healthy lifespan perhaps is why Mr. Bean is so immensely popular among people of all ages and nationalities.

When asked about this tour, Reb Beach answered:

"Jamie Walters was THE funnest tour I ever did. It was just Jamie and I, first class all the way through Europe. Jamie and I became great friends and we wrote the song "You" together. With the exception of Kip Winger, he is probably my favorite person in the world (meaning "male person")."

For the Paraguayan footballer, see Óscar Romero (footballer). For the American soccer player, see Oscar Romero (soccer).

be careful not to mix up footballers and soccer players

is this in the bishop’s wikipedia page?

Shortly after the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the police received a letter in block capital letters:

I will make no more bomb units for the duration of the war – my patriotic feelings have made me decide this – later I will bring the Con Edison to justice – They will pay for their dastardly deeds ... F.P.

Mitsuyasu Maeno (前野 光保, Maeno Mitsuyasu; c.1947 – March 23, 1976) was a Japanese actor who appeared in roman porno films as Soichiro Maeno (前野 霜一郎, Maeno Sōichirō). Outside of acting, Maeno was associated with the Japanese ultranationalist movement. In March 1976, he carried out a suicide attack on Yoshio Kodama, a multi-millionaire right-wing leader and leading figure in the Lockheed bribery scandals. Maeno attempted to kill Kodama by flying a plane into his home, but Kodama survived uninjured.

This interpretation is more in keeping with the historical circumstances of Dylan's personal life and within the context the music he was making on Highway 61 Revisited. There is nothing sentimental or soft about this album. Every track is full of hard truths with little sense of forgiveness as is suggested by the more common interpretation of this song. Dylan has also apparently acknowledged being in the throes of heroin addiction near the time he was writing this material. He has written no other song which has characterized that experience and it would be an odd piece of omission that he would not have done so. This solves the problem when Gill calls this song "the least interesting track" on Highway 61.

In 2016, Skarsgård said that he had a vasectomy because he felt that eight children was enough.

You don't say?

The blue LEDs had to be wrapped in balloons after battery acid started leaking into Schwarzenegger's mouth.[3]

His father, at various times a police officer, clerk at Sheffield town hall, and chairman of the council's Health Committee,[5][6] was a former Roman Catholic priest,[4] the parish priest at St Joseph's at Shirebrook in Derbyshire,[7] who renounced the church and left the priesthood to cohabit with Hattersley's mother, Enid, a married woman at whose wedding he had officiated two weeks earlier

Pepsi, originally created in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and named "Brad's Drink," was first sold in his drugstore in New Bern, North Carolina.

Laughing thinking about ordering a Coke in a restaurant and the waiter responding "is Brad's Drink OK?"

No Coke, Brad's Drink

losing it over that