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Cory Gardner, winner of the 2010 Congressional office lottery, said he had "practiced pulling tissues out of the box" 20 to 25 times until he decided his form was good.

In 1964, Leicester Hemingway, brother of Ernest Hemingway, tried to found the Republic of New Atlantis on an 8-by-30-foot bamboo raft anchored with an engine block, using the Guano Islands Act as part of a claim to sovereignty.

Moha, literally "admiring toad" or "toad worship", is an internet meme spoofing Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and paramount leader.

Saparmurat Niyazov abolished the Turkmen word for bread and replaced it with Gurbansoltan, his mother's name.

After the death of Louis the Great, his daughter Jadwiga became ruler of Poland and was crowned "king" in Kraków on 16 October 1384.

The Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands was a fake pro-China communist party set up by the Dutch secret service BVD to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes.

At Big Ass Fans, a donkey named Fanny from the ad campaign became the company's logo, and Smith changed his job title to "Chief Big Ass".

In 2010, the Supreme Court of South Dakota heard a case brought by the state of South Dakota against fifteen cats, seized on the grounds of interfering with a driver's visibility.

After losing the primary, Lieberman ran as the candidate of the newly formed Connecticut for Lieberman party, but he was not a member of it and remained a registered Democrat throughout the campaign.

After Toledo, Ohio mayor Carty Finkbeiner used profanity in a 1998 news conference, presidential candidate Ralph Nader sent him a bar of soap with which to wash out his mouth.

During the second presidency of Donald Trump, a New York Post issue with his mug shot on its front cover was hung in a golden frame in a hallway just outside the Oval Office.

A school master's obituary from 1923 stated "he never married", but continued that he "usually spent his holidays in a little inn frequented by seafaring men at Falmouth".

In the 1874 Argentine presidential election, only 145 electors voted for Avellaneda, but in the final count they appear with 146 votes.

The Pink Pistols, an LGBTQ gun rights organization in the United States and Canada, has the motto "Pick on someone your own caliber".

The UK Parliament's Suspensory Act 1914 suspended the coming into force of two other acts, and it received royal assent on the same day as the two acts it suspended, 18 September 1914.

Pittsburgh Mills, a mall once worth as much as $190 million, was sold at a foreclosure sale for $100, with the mall itself being purchased by lien holder Wells Fargo.

During the Brown Dog affair, mounted police charged a crowd of fighting students and arrested the stragglers, including one undergraduate, Alexander Bowley, who was arrested for "barking like a dog".

Nelson Mandela completed a Bachelor of Laws while in custody, though his educational privileges were revoked for four years after staff discovered he was writing an autobiography, something which was forbidden at the time.

After Nintendo sought to terminate No Mario's Sky, a mashup of Super Mario Bros. and No Man's Sky, the Mario content was stripped and the game was renamed DMCA's Sky.

On May 26, 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger travelled to San Jose to fill a pothole that city crews had dug just a few hours before, to dramatize his efforts to increase funding for transportation projects.