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President Jimmy Carter once told a joke during a speech in Japan that caused the audience to burst into laughter. Impressed, he asked how the interpreter got such a laugh. The interpreter admitted to saying, “President Carter told a funny story; everyone must laugh.”

In 1982, Zimbabwe passed a law prohibiting citizens from making jokes about their president’s name: President Banana

In 2008, radio-controlled flying dildos interrupted Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov at a political press conference.

In 2009, a South African IT company showed that it was 25 times faster to send a 4GB SD card 50 miles by carrier pigeon than it was to use the country’s national internet provider Telkom.

A Canadian brewery has apologised for naming one of its beers “Huruhuru”, which they thought was the Maori word for feather, but actually means pubic hair.

Ireland accidentally legalized ecstasy, ketamine, and crystal meth for one day in 2015.

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