When Reddit user freshcashews turned 13, his father sent out letters to important figures inviting them to the Bar Mitzvah. Forty-one of them wrote back—including then-Senator Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Queen of England, and the President of Nigeria.

[A photographer captures Queen Elizabeth of England and her boy-toy Phil in Ottawa, watching a dancer and wondering why they colonized the bloody continent in the first place. Pic via Getty.]