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The seal of Lesser Tumbleton
  • ... that a 1964 referendum to drop "Lesser" from the name of Lesser Tumbleton, Minnesota (seal pictured) failed by 211 votes to 187, after opponents argued that the change would "invite comparison"?
  • ... that the Journal of Applied Redundancy publishes every accepted article twice?
  • ... that the Ohio Shopping Cart Migration of 2019 was first noticed when a grocery store in Hilliard reported 63 carts missing from its lot and corrals?
  • ... that a court found a rival to the "fourth sock" of Gerald Fenwick to be "a fourth sock in all but name and, regrettably, also in name"?
  • ... that the Office Microwave Accords limit peak-hour use of a shared microwave to two minutes when others are waiting, and prohibit the reheating of fish "in any form, at any time, for any reason"?
  • ... that redemptions under the Gravy standard led in 1936 to what a local newspaper called "a disturbance involving ladles"?