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One of Africa's most notorious dictators was Francisco Macias Nguema, who ruled Equatorial Guinea from 1968 to 1979. As a result of the terror unleashed by him, about a quarter of the country's population was killed.

Executions were not always banal - for example, on Christmas Day 1975, 150 of Nguema's opponents were shot by soldiers dressed as Santa Claus. Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days" was played in the background to the tune of the Russian romance "Darling long".

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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In 2005, American Bobby Henderson came up with a new religion - Pastafarianism, the main deity in which is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This was done in protest against the introduction of the study of the concept of "Intelligent Design" in Kansas schools as an alternative to evolutionary teaching. According to religion, the invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe and deliberately built in all the evidence for evolution, testing the faith of its adherents. For example, every time a scientist measures the age of an object using radiocarbon dating, the Monster changes the results with his Spaghetti Hand. In 2011, Austrian Nico Alm won the right to be photographed for a driver's license with a colander on his head, justifying such a headdress as belonging to Pastafarianism.

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