Random Countries/States Facts and Laws, Random Facts, Etc.
1. In Mexico artists can pay their taxes with art.
2. In Mexico, a guy who was an expert at not being kidnapped in Mexico was kidnapped in Mexico after giving a speech about how not to be kidnapped in Mexico.
3. In Mexico a Mexican drug lord went to a diner, ordered his henchmen to take all the diners' phones and lock the doors, then ate. When he was done he returned the phones and paid for everyone's meals, then left.
4. In London there is a room that makes rain fall everywhere except where you are standing.
5. In Japan there is an indoor beach complete with an ocean.
6.In Chicago, it is against the law to eat in a place that's on fire.
7. In Switzerland it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 PM.
8.In Japan, it is illegal to be fat.
9. In Canada, by law, 1 of 5 songs on the radio must be sung by a Canadian.
10. In Alaska, you cant look at a moose from an airplane.
11. In a town in Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.
12. In Miami, you cannot imitate an animal.
13. In Arkansas you cannot mispronounce the state's name.
14. In China, when meeting a person of over 70 in the street, you must bow to them and recite the ancient and holy prayer of the gods to them.
15. In Hawaii twins cannot work for the same company.
16. In Michigan, a dentist is classified as a mechanic.
17. In China, it is against the law to "reincarnate" without government permission.
18. In China, if you don't visit and/or call your parents on a regular basis, you can be fined/arrested for abuse.
19. In TN, you cannot eat roadkill, steal a horse, or drive while asleep.
20. In FL, a divorced/ widowed woman cannot skydive on Sunday afternoon.
21. 15 minutes of laughing has the same benefits of 2 hours of sleep.
22. Humans start lying at the age of 4.
23. The "iced cream" you usually see in ice cream ads is usually masked potatoes cuz they don't melt during production/ filming.
24. The only cells that last from birth to death are your eyes.
25. There is a naturally pink lake called Lake Hillier.
26. A lake in France is blood-red due to high salt-concentration.
27. The more you talk about a person to others, the more you end up falling in love with them.
28. Placing a goldfish in a black room will one day turn them white.
29. Not making your bed discourages and kills off bed bugs.
30. There exists a final Tom and Jerry episode where both characters supposedly kill themselves.
31. Video games help make the brain make faster decisions.
32. A crush only lasts for 4 months. Any longer means "you're in love".
33. Search the world askew on Google and the resulting answer page will tilt slightly.
34.You have a 96 percent chance of surviving a plane crash.
35. Your heart stops for a millisecond when you sneeze, which is why people say bless you, along with the fact that according to legend, when you sneeze, a demon could enter and possess you.
36. Former president Coolidge said he enjoyed buzzing for his Secret Service and then hiding under his desk as they searched franticly for him.
37. If humans began traveling underground it would only take us 42 minutes to get from one place to another anyplace in the world.
38. Sarcastic people tend to be creative.
39. You can pay a place in Tokyo to take your stuffed animal on a vacation- without you.
40. If you search "do a barrel roll" in Google the resulting answer page will spin if you also press "I'm feeling lucky".
41. Women have twice as many pain receptors as men but also a higher pain threshold.
42. Women spend half their life deciding what to wear.
43.96 percent of people have no idea that Bin Laden was once a CIA agent.
44. Curtness inspires aggression: which is why we wanna squeeze things we find cute.
45. It is not the electric charge that throws you back when touching an electric fence: it is your own muscles contracting. In other words, you are strong enough to throw yourself back.
46. Blind people dream in black-and-white.
47. SpongeBob's real name was to be Spongeboy, his famous laugh was made to remind the viewer of the ocean, it is the only Nicktoons show from the 90s still running, SpongeBob has worked at the Krab for 39 years, and the same voice of a green fish yells MY LEG every time a disaster strikes.
48. All the babies in Rugrats were voiced by women.
49. If you look up at a blue sky and see white dots, you are seeing your own blood cells.
50. The voices of Mickey and Minnie were married in real life.
51. The voices of SpongeBob and Karin are married,
52. An easy way to tell if someone likes you is to make them laugh. If they laugh easily they like you.
53. Some U.S coyotes have figured out what stop lights mean and use them to cross the road safely.
54. People make hand gestures and answer follow-up questions with more detail when telling true stories, liars' hands stay still and their answers are plain.
55. People are also lying if their eyes dart back and forth, they display rapid blinking, closing eyes for more than one second at a time, if they look up to the right. and/or they look directly to the right.
Hope you enjoyed these 50 facts! Have any? Comment below and I will add them!
ADDITIONS:
Here were some that Queeny so kindly shared!:
1. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
2. Most lipstick contains fish scales!
3. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is called a skein!
4. Porcupines can float in water!
5. Cat urine glows under black light!
6. A mole can dig a hole 300 feet long in one night!
7. Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
8. You're born with 300 bones, but when your an adult you only have 206!
9. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
10. Thomas Eddison was afraid of the dark! (maybe that's why he created the lightbulb?)
11. The state of Florida is larger than England!
12. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find food!
13. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
14. Slugs have 4 noses!
15. In Bangladesh, (That's where Titi lives, isn't it?) kids as young as 15 can be arrested for cheating on finals!
16. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America by Charles Jung!
17. In England, in the 1880's "pants" was considered a dirty word!
18. In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front!
19. In Kentucky, it's the law that someone must take a bath once a year!
20. In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday!
21. In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum!
22. In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned!
23. In Michigan, it is against the law for a lady to lift her skirt more than 6 inches off the ground when walking through a mud puddle!
24. In Missouri, a man needs a permit to shave!
And here are some KnightStar so kindly shared!
A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.
A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.
A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.
It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.
10% of the World's population is left-handed. (Did you also know 1% of the world is right and left-handed? I'm part of that %1!
A broken clock is right two times every day.
According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
Bob Marley's last words to his son before he died were "Money can't buy life."
A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.
A hippo's wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in.
Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it's flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than on any other day of the year.
95% of people text things they could never say in person.
A crocodile can't poke its tongue out.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. (well, I guess pigs can't fly.)
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
