In North Dakota, it is legal to shoot an Indian on horseback, provided you are in a covered wagon.
7/23/2010 #181 ReportIn North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.
7/23/2010 #182 ReportIn North Dakota, beer and pretzels can't be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.
7/23/2010 #183 Report♦ Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
♦ In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
♦ It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
♦ In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car whilst sleeping.
♦ In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer. (Behold, the Michigan perverts!)
♦ In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.
♦ In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length. (How the hell would you manage to conceal a weapon that large, anyway?)
♦ Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
♦ When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
7/24/2010 #184 ReportIn Michigan it is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.
7/25/2010 #185 ReportSoviet Premier Nikita Krushchev credited American spam with saving his army from starvation during WW2.
8/15/2010 #186 ReportMost brides wear white thinking it's a symbol of purity. However, white is the color of joy, and blue the color of purity.
Chinese brides change dresses multiple times during their ceremonies as a sign of wealth.
8/15/2010 #187 ReportOhio is the only American state that can be spelled using only the right side of the keyboard. Texas is the only state that can be spelled on the left.
8/16/2010 . Edited 8/18/2010 #188 ReportIf you don't clip your toe nails strait, they'll grow inwards.
8/17/2010 #189 ReportSomethinng I found on a website.
Fact: It is illegal to copyright Fanfiction stories.
9/5/2010 #191 ReportThe Merriam Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the most advanced in the world, currently.
*Has three copies at home, not including electronic one*
9/7/2010 #192 ReportThe dwarf planet Pluto has three natural satelites, including Charon. Two of them were discovered in 2005.
9/10/2010 #193 ReportMost fanfiction writers are girls.
Cats don't necessarily care for milk. They enjoy the taste, but like many humans, cats become lactose intolerant as they grow into adults. Giving a cat milk in lieu of food or water can cause serious digestive problems.
Silencers on guns don't actually make gunshots silent--the noise comes from the fact that the bullet is breaking the sound barrier. However, it does make it somewhat quieter.
Napoleon was not actually short. He constantly surrounded himself with very large men, because they would be able to protect him most effectively, and were intimidating. He only looks short in paintings because he is always surrounded by small people.
Coconuts in fiction are depicted as fuzzy brown things hanging from trees, sometimes with apertures in the surface. Coconuts are actually green with smooth skin until one cuts them out of the pod then dries the second layer which then turns brown and fuzzy.
9/16/2010 #194 Report40% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Tallz- no, the rule in Alaska is you can't drop moose from airplanes.
9/27/2010 #195 Report40% of statistics are made up on the spot? How the heck did they get THAT statistic? Was that made up on the spot? XD
10/4/2010 #196 Report40% of statistics are made up on the spot? How the heck did they get THAT statistic? Was that made up on the spot? XD
Somebody missed the joke. XP
10/4/2010 #197 ReportAccording to the United States constitution, habeas corpus rights can be suspended in a time of invasion or rebellion when "the public safety may require it."
I never knew that. Thank you, AP Government homework, for giving me a plot idea to store away for later. :D
10/12/2010 #199 ReportPlanet Gliese is the only planet that has a climate in the same range as Earth's.
10/20/2010 #201 ReportJava Man is the name given to fossils discovered in 1891 at Trinil - Ngawi Regency on the banks of the Solo River in East Java, Indonesia, one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus. Its discoverer, Eugène Dubois, gave it the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus, a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning 'upright ape-man'.
11/18/2010 #203 ReportThe human eye uses four genes to make structures that sense light: three for colour vision and one for night vision; all four are descended from a single ancestral gene.
11/18/2010 #204 ReportPneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the dictionary.
Antidisestablishmentarianism and Floccinaucinilihilipilification come in second and third.
11/21/2010 #205 ReportAntidisestablishmentarianism
This means "an act against the government," methinks.
Floccinaucinilihilipilification
"The use of big words for no reason."
11/21/2010 #206 ReportThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was originally going to be made to play in First-Person perspective, but the idea was later dropped when they developed a child Link. They chose third person so you could see the difference when his age changed.
12/11/2010 #208 ReportPeanut butter contains very little or no butter (can't remember which)... It just sticks together because when the peanuts are crushed, they release lots of oil. I don't know whether that's a well known fact in the US but it surprised me.
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