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Useless Facts
03-29-02

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Dumb Laws
  • A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
  • Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year
  • If you live in Michigan, do you know it is illegal to put a skunk in your boss' desk?
  • In Hartford, Connecticut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands
  • In Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds
  • In Indiana, it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic
  • In some parts of Alabama, United States, it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket
  • In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potatohead
  • It is illegal for boys in 9th grade to grow a mustache in Binghamton, New York
  • It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska
  • It's against the law to ride down the streets of Brewton, Alabama, in a motorboat
  • Most burglaries in the U.S. occur in the winter
  • Under the law of Mississippi, there's no such thing as a female Peeping Tom
    • Source: http://www.uselessfacts.net/facts/Legal/United_States/index.html

     

    Brain Teasers             Answers
    1. If 2 hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the afternoon as it was before one o'clock in the morning. What time would it be now?

    2. Two boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing, not kick boxing). The fight is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6 rounds, after one boxer knocks out the other boxer. Yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible?

    3. Two mothers and two daughters were fishing. They managed to catch one big fish, one small fish, and one fat fish. Since only three fish were caught, how is it possible that they each took home a fish?

    4. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

    5. There was a guy who had a Fox, a Chicken, and a bag of Grain. He had to cross a river to get back home, but he could only take one item with him at a time. He could only take the fox, or the grain, or the chicken. Well, if you leave a chicken and a fox on one side of the river while taking the bag of grain across, the fox will eat the chicken, same thing with the chicken and the grain. Can't leave those two alone or the chicken will eat the grain. How do you get them all across the river safely?

    6. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

     

    Stupid People
    1. Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

    2. A man in Johannesberg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other's head

    3. The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits

    4. When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.

    5. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

    6. Homossassa, FL. A man went into a hardware store to apply for a job. After completing his application he then went to the section of the store that sold guns. He asked to see a couple guns. The attendent left for a moment and the guy stole the guns. Not only was he video-taped, the police used the address on his application to go to his house and arrest him.
    source: uselessfacts.net

     

    Jokes and Humor
    1. There was an airplane with 4 people on it -- the pilot, a minister, the smartest man in the world, and a boyscout. The plane starts to go down, but there were only 3 parachutes. The pilot says, "I'm the most important man on this plane because I can report the crash." So he takes a parachute and jumps off. The smartest man in the world says, "I'm the second most important man on this plane because my head is so full of important knowledge." So he takes a parachute a jumps off." The minister says, "Go ahead, lad, and take the last parachute. I'm old and ready to die." The boyscout says, "That won't be necessary sir, because you see the smartest man in the world just jumped off with my backpack."

    2. Today, there was a great loss in the entertainment world. The man who wrote the song "Hokey Pokey" died. What was really horrible was that they had trouble keeping his body in the casket. They'd put his left leg in and ... well, you know the rest.

    3. A man sat quietly reading his morning paper one Sunday morning. Suddenly, his wife enters with frying pan and smashes him over the head with it. Man: "What was that for?" Wife: "Why do you have a piece of paper in your pocket with "Daisy" written on it?" Man: "Oh honey, don't you remember two weeks ago when I went to the horse races? Daisy was the name of the horse I bet on." The wife was satisfied, and apologized for bonking him. Three days later he is again sitting reading the paper when once again he is bonked on the head. Man: "What's that for this time?" Wife: "Your horse called."
    source: uselessfacts.net

     

    Answers             Back to Questions
    1. Nine o'clock. Since there are 12 hours between the 2 times, and half of that time is six, then the halfway mark would have to be 7 o'clock. If it were 7 o'clock, two hours ago, the time would now be nine o'clock

    2. They are female boxers

    3. The fishing party consisted of three people. A grandmother, a mother, and a daughter. The mother is both a mother and a daughter.

    4. An ear of corn.

    5. Take the chicken first and come back. Get the grain, take it across and take the chicken back with you. Leave the chicken and take the fox and come back. Get the chicken...

    6. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt. (And those of you who said 36 cubic feet are wrong for another reason, too. You would have needed the length measurement too. So you don't even know how much air is in the hole.)

      source: uselessfacts.net