A Nebraska defense lawyer specializing in drunken-driving cases won an acquittal after the prosecution's expert witness on the police breath-testing machine told him under cross-examination, "you know that machine better than I do."
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In the 2018 Makassar mayoral election, Arifuddin ran as a single candidate and still lost the vote to an empty ballot, forcing the election to be repeated in 2020.
The Bank of England £100,000,000 banknote, also referred to as Titan, is a non-circulating banknote with the same dimensions as an A4 sheet of paper.
The Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar note had a face value of $100 trillion, which was equal to 40 US cents in 2015.
Soon after the election, the Polish Beer-Lovers' Party split into Big Beer and Little Beer factions, despite Rewiński's claims that "beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty."
The UK Parliament passed the Easter Act 1928 to fix Easter Sunday between 9 April and 15 April, but the act has never come into force.
On United Airlines Flight 976, the crew sprayed Karl Lagerfeld perfume throughout the aisles of the plane to further mask the smell of feces, and food service was canceled due to the unhygienic conditions.
In finance, a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining asset is called a "dead cat bounce", from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height".
A large rai stone was accidentally dropped and sank to the sea floor; although it was never seen again, everyone agreed it must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as any other stone.
The 1980 Turkish presidential election had 115 unsuccessful rounds until 12 September 1980, when the election ended with a coup d'état.
In 2005 the mayor of Biritiba-Mirim filed a bill to make it illegal for the town's people to die, intending to target relatives of people who die with fines and even jail if necessary to get more space for tombstones.
Vox urged voters with "Let the battle begin!" and a photomontage of Aragorn facing a crowd of orcs replaced with symbols contrary to the party's ideology, among them a ghost emoji with the colors of the LGBT flag.
As of 2026, Simeon II and the 14th Dalai Lama are the only two people alive who were heads of state during World War II; both were symbolic monarchs in regent-led governments.
Hershey shipped roughly 100 pounds of chocolate and other candy four times a year for Santorum to fill the U.S. Senate's Candy Desk, and stopped supplying the desk when Santorum failed to get re-elected in 2006.
During the Norway Debate, Hoare struggled to cope with questions about the air force, at one point failing to realise the difference between the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm.
Batman v. Commissioner has not been cited in many later tax cases, but its unintentionally humorous title, suggesting a lawsuit between Batman and Commissioner Gordon from the DC Comics franchise, has earned it some notoriety in legal circles.
As a young man, Steve Comisar marketed a "solar powered clothes dryer" in national magazines for $49.95. Buyers received a length of clothesline.
In 2008, Ikea released a brown rug called Hoven, which in Czech means "shits"; when the original Hoven version was discounted, a sign announced "shits on sale."
On May 8, 1993, sixteen-year-old Keron Thomas posed as New York City Subway motorman "Regoberto Sabio" and operated an A train in revenue service for over three hours.
A Snopes analysis points out that because Executive Order 14168 does not define what "belonging to" a sex means, the order could be interpreted as either all persons belong to no sex, or all persons belong to both sexes.
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