There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station.

Author Hunter S. Thompson wanted to be cremated and his ashes to be shot out of a cannon on his ranch.

The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.

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