Odd News Highlights: UK Election's Bizarre Candidates & Japan's Floppy Disk Victory

This odd news summary covers unique candidates in the UK election and Japan's achievement in eliminating the use of floppy disks. The UK sees unconventional candidates like Count Binface and Elmo, while Japan's Digital Agency celebrated modernizing by retiring over 1,000 regulations related to floppy disks.

Following is a summary of current odd news briefs.

Count Binface, Elmo and AI Steve: the UK election's unusual candidates

When either Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer take to the stage to hail victory in the British election on Friday, they will be joined at their moment of triumph by either a man with a trash can on his head or someone dressed as "Elmo" from the Muppets. Among the more than 4,500 candidates standing for election to parliament's 650 seats are those from fringe parties, single issue campaigners, and, in a peculiarly British tradition, those who are simply making fun of the whole thing.

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle recycling.

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