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Jakob Maria Mierscheid is a fictitious politician who has been in the German Bundestag since 11 December 1979.

In 2015, a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Odesa was converted into a statue of Darth Vader due to a law on decommunization.

Accused in 1971 of mouthing "fuck off" at opposition MPs in the House of Commons, Trudeau would only admit to moving his lips, and asked reporters, "What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say 'fuddle duddle' or something like that?"

The Supreme Court of Canada moved away from the "moron" analysis and adopted an "ordinary hurried purchaser", a standard between that of a "moron" and a "careful and diligent purchaser".

After a Sentinelese arrow struck a documentary director in his thigh, the man who wounded him withdrew to the shade of a tree and laughed proudly while others speared and buried the pig and the doll.

The 1992 Iranian legislative election marked a rivalry between the two main organizations at the time: the right-wing Combatant Clergy Association and the left-wing Association of Combatant Clerics.

On March 5, 1995, Gabriele Paolini disguised a condom as a request in a paper and personally gave it to Pope John Paul II at a church in Rome.

In the summer of 2009, NPR decided to ban using the word torture; its ombudsman defended the policy by saying "calling waterboarding torture is tantamount to taking sides."

Dunwich had two Members of Parliament representing a constituency that was essentially underwater, making it one of the most frequently-mentioned examples of the absurdities of the unreformed system.

At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan, poking fun at his own age, said of Bill Clinton: "I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson."

In 1967, in a write-in only election, the small town of Picoazá, Ecuador, elected the foot deodorant Pulvapies as its new municipal councilman.

During the Olim L'Berlin controversy, Israel's Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir said he pitied the Israelis who "abandoned Israel for a pudding".

Jenaro Gajardo Vera's stated goal in claiming ownership of the Moon was "to join the Social Club of Talca, which had a membership requirement of having a property."

Because of the near 100% turnout, elections in North Korea double as unofficial censuses.

As of 2014, a travel agency in Kyoto was offering self-marriage packages for women, with some customers being wives who were dissatisfied with their original wedding.

The FURRIES Act aimed to stop all acts of animal behavior in public schools, with prohibited actions including barking, hissing, meowing, licking oneself for grooming, and using litter boxes to relieve oneself.

Chaponda claimed Malawi's farting problem was "not there during the time of dictatorship because people were afraid of the consequences," but "now because of multipartism or freedom, people would like to fart anywhere".

A score of protestors outside the Canadian Embassy in Manila appealed for "respect for cultural diversity" and affirmed "we eat with a spoon and we're proud."

Out of revenge, an unemployed gardener broke into the crypt intending to steal George Washington's skull, but inadvertently absconded with the skull of one of the Blackburns, in-laws of Washington's nephew.

Vincent Kosuga once bribed a weather bureau to issue a frost warning to inflate the price of futures contracts he owned; the bureau did issue the warning, though the temperature never fell below 50 °F (10 °C).