Useless, but fascinating information

[EviL OliVe]

-Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.

-An armadillo can walk under water.

-Armadillos can be house broken.

 

[alexandraaah]

I heard that some years back, American Airlines wanted to cut costs, so part of their plan was to remove one olive from each salad they served.

Apparently, they saved over $100,000.

 

[EviL OliVe]

-A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.

-If monkeys eat too many un-ripe bananas their tongue and eyes will turn green.

-Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

-The bonobo monkeys use sex (and/or sexual favors) to placate members of their social group instead of grooming. They are one of the few species of animals that have sex out of season and for fun.

-The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest animal which can be heard clearly for distances of up to 3 miles.

-The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

-The only place in Europe where monkeys live free is Gibraltar.

 

[EviL OliVe]

-A camel's backbone is just as straight as a horse's.

-Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible.

-Camel's milk does not curdle.

-Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

-It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

-The world camel population is close to 19 million.

 

[EviL OliVe]

-A snail can have 25,000 teeth.

-A snail takes 33 hours to crawl one mile.

-A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

-Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

-Some desert snails have been known to sleep for three to four years.

-The snail mates only once in its entire life.

 

[EviL OliVe]

-A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.

-The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

 

[EviL OliVe]

-All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

-An elephant can be pregnant for up to 22 months.

-An elephant can smell water three miles away.

-An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

-Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

-Elephants get by on only 2 hours of sleep a day.

-Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

-Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

-Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.

-Elephants spend approximately 75% of their time feeding. They eat about 200kg of food per day and produce about 100kg of dung.

-In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee.

-Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

-The African elephant cannot be domesticated, but the Indian elephant can.

-The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

 

[EviL OliVe]

-You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes. A male grunts, a female hisses.

-To force a tortoises' legs from its shell to treat it, you need to place your finger up its bottom.

-The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies.

-The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds.

-The giant tortoise has the longest lifespan in captivity of any animal.

-A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.

 

[EviL OliVe]

Amusing Legal Facts

According to British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

Christmas was once illegal in England.

In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of a private home.

53,312 inmate lawsuits were filed nationwide in 1995.

A rape is reported every six minutes in the United States.

A surfer once sued another surfer for ""stealing his wave."" The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on ""pain and suffering"" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride ""his"" wave.

A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the house.

By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years.

Centuries ago in India, a person could get their nose chopped off for breaking the law.

David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Elmo, a puppet from the children's television show ""Sesame Street,"" testified on April 23,2002 during a House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. He was testifying in favour of school music education. He is the first puppet in history to testify on Capitol Hill.

George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.

Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

In a tradition dating to the begining of the Westminster system of government, the bench in the middle of a Westminster parliarment is two and a half sword lengths long. This was so the government and oppositon couldn't have a go at each other if it all got a bit heated

In Alaska it is illegal to shoot at a moose from the window of an aeroplane or other flying vehicle.

In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.

In Baltimore USA it is illegal to wash or scrub a sink regardless of how dirty it is.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

In England during Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.

In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.

In Helsinki, Finland, instead of giving parking tickets, the police usually deflate tires.

In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.

In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.

In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.

In Sweden, while prostitution is legal, it is illegal for anyone to use the services of a prostitute.

In Texas, it is illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.

In the UK, there is no act of parliament making it illegal to commit murder. Murder is only illegal due to legal precedent.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

India is the world's largest democracy.

It is against the law to stare at the mayor of Paris.

It is against the law to urinate in an elevator, in Singapore.

It is illegal in Sweden to train a seal to balance a ball on its nose.

It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

It is illegal, in Malaysia, for restaurants to substitute toilet paper as table napkins. Repeat offenders go to jail.

It used to be law in France that children's names had to be taken from an official government list.

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.

Lawsuits filed by California inmates cost the taxpayers more than $25 million in 199

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles.

Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.

Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.

The Indian election in 1984 was the largest election of any country. Over 379,000,000 voters were eligible to vote at over 480,000 polling stations.

The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in, is protected by law.

 

[EviL OliVe]

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

According to the United States Refuse Act of 1899, every industrial discharge into bodies of water since 1899 has been a crime.

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 Minnesota, it is illegal for woman to be dressed up as Santa Claus on city streets.

In Morrisville, Pennsylvania, women need a legal permit before they can wear lipstick in public.

In some parts of Alabama, United States, it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket.

In the Rhode Island legislature during the 1970s, it was proposed that their be a tax of $2 on every act of sexual intercourse.

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.

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 catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

 

[nike]

wow. such an informative girl. I think I like you already.

 

[teddybear4play]

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

I had never heard of that before. Huh.

TB4p

 

[EviL OliVe]

wow. such an informative girl. I think I like you already.

Who said I was a girl?

 

[Mischka]

In Helsinki, Finland, instead of giving parking tickets, the police usually deflate tires.

Well, it would cut down on police paperwork...

 

[Lasher]

Re: Amusing Legal Facts

David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time

This one is complete bullshit, but that's what happens when you cut and paste instead of doing your own research.

Here's the link from snopes.com as to why this is bullshit.

David Rice Atchison served as President of the United States for one day in 1849

 

[Lord David]

Re: Amusing Legal Facts

Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel

It is over here in Britain, apparently you take your concentration off the road because you're talking... huh? But I do readily admit that all things considering, you only have 1 hand to drive with if you're on the phone, which is pretty damn foolish.

Here's one for ya. Over here, all speed camera's have to be clearly visable to the public and have signs up telling people where the camera's are.

Yup, the idea is to catch the speeders, and they speeders sued the police as the police were being sneaky because they didn't have time to slow down like they used to when they saw the cop car...

*shakes his head at British stupidity*

 

[Mischka]

Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

And in the other 26 states, the legislators were afraid to pass such a bill.

 

[sheath]

I LOVE useless trivia! Keep posting, please?????

S.

 

[HeavyStick]

In Helsinki, Finland, instead of giving parking tickets, the police usually deflate tires.

Well, it would cut down on police paperwork...

Wouldn't that be considered criminal mischief or vandalism?

 

[Pamela]

Useless fashion fact....

Napoleon started the fashion trend of having men's suit jackets with three buttons on the sleeve. This was to prevent his men from wiping their noses on them!!

 

[nike]

Who said I was a girl?

sorry, my fault for asssuming

 

[I'mVan]

Re: Amusing Legal Facts

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

LMAO

 

[Conover66]

The word "usher" contains four pronouns.

 

[Conover66]

The word "bookkeeper" contains three consecutive sets of double letters.

 

[Conover66]

The word "stewardesses" is the longest that can be typed using only the left hand.