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In 1939, to make clear the distinction from the Nazi Party's adoption of the symbol, the Swastika Laundry changed its name to "The Swastika Laundry (1912)".

Chamoy Thipyaso was sentenced to a total of 141,078 years in prison for fraud, but Thai law capped the sentence that could be served at 20 years, and after two reductions she was released in 1993.

In 1953, the Coca-Cola Company approached the U.S. Treasury Department to ask that they mint a 7.5 cent coin so it could raise the five cent price of Coke. The Treasury was unsympathetic.

The Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party is on good terms with the Fourth Way, a joke party led by two birds, but opposes its plan to abolish bird flu on the principle of viral rights.

In 2013, a Belgian chocolate manufacturer previously known as Italo Suisse changed its name to ISIS. In 2014 it changed the name again, to Libeert, after a decline in sales, mainly in the Anglophone world.

Under one way of counting Alabama's 1960 votes, which Congressional Quarterly used at the time, Nixon won the popular vote in Alabama and also the popular vote nationally.

The alleged ban on curved bananas is the stereotypical Euromyth, yet the regulation does specify minimum dimensions for bananas and states that they shall be free from deformation or abnormal curvature.

In 1998, the Christchurch City Council signed a contract with The Wizard of New Zealand to "provide acts of wizardry and other wizard-like-services" for an annual fee of $16,000.

Eric Adams kept New York City's vaccine mandate for private-sector employees but exempted athletes and performers, a policy known as the "Kyrie Carve-Out" because it was intended to let unvaccinated Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving play home games.

In April 2023, actor Matthew McConaughey claimed that he and long-time friend Woody Harrelson could potentially be half-brothers, implying that Charles Harrelson could also be his father.

During Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' 1985 Southern Accents tour, actors in Nixon and Reagan masks came out at the climax of "Don't Come Around Here No More" and chased each other all over the stage.

It has been suggested that Charles the Bald's nickname was used ironically: he was not in fact bald but rather was extremely hairy.

In September 2018, six of Paul Gosar's nine siblings spoke out against their brother and endorsed his Democratic opponent, David Brill, in a series of television campaign ads.

During the GameStop short squeeze, shares of GME Resources, an Australian mining company, rose more than 50 percent in intraday trading, speculated to be a joke or mistake because its ASX symbol was the same as GameStop's ticker, GME.

When Pascual Racuyal invited Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson to be his running mate in the 1953 presidential elections, Lacson called Racuyal "strictly fiction, utterly fantastic and incredible".

In 2015, President Nicolás Maduro was hit in the head by a mango with a message and a telephone number written on it. He later said the woman who threw it had "a problem with her house" and that he had approved an apartment for her.

In 2020 news media reported that Uunona's full name was Adolf Hitler Uunona, named after German dictator Adolf Hitler; Uunona said, "My father gave me this name Adolf Hitler, but it does not mean I have Adolf Hitler's character".

Justo Gallego Martínez's building has no formal planning permission or building permits from the authorities of Mejorada del Campo, yet the town named the street it stands on "Calle Antonio Gaudí", after the architect of the Sagrada Família.

When the 1933 double eagle sold at a 2002 auction for $6.6 million plus a 15-percent buyer's premium, an additional $20 was needed to "monetize" the coin's face value so it would become legal currency.

For its 45th anniversary, the Orenburg gas processing plant, whose first director was Chernomyrdin, opened a park dedicated to Chernomyrdin and adorned it with plaques with chernomyrdinki.