It's amazing the things you sometimes find on line while looking for other things ...

This, found on a site, appears to be taken verbatim from The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky & Amy Wallace. I'll parcel out their second and third examples in the next few days. Perhaps some of us have further real-world examples?

Czarina Maria Fyodorovna once saved the life of a man by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by her husband, Alexander III, which exiled a criminal to imprisonment and death in Siberia.

On the bottom of the warrant the czar had written: `Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.'

The czarina changed the punctuation so that her husband's instructions read: `Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.'

The man was set free.

Wow! That is great...much like "Eats, Shoots & Leaves."

While I find this plausible and funny, I suspect it of being apocryphal. (See also A language hoax.)

Here is the page from The Book of Lists with the comma story. That doesn't make it true, though!