Index : U : Unusual Laws

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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Unusual Laws

• What are John Cleese's Three Laws of Comedy? ( goto )



• Approximately how many laws are there in the United States? ( goto )



• What rare form of legal protection against violence exists in the laws of Scotland but not in the laws of England and Wales? ( goto )



• What nation has the strictest drunk driving laws? ( goto )



• Which animals are exempt from the U.S. game laws? ( goto )



• What is wrong with most laws passed in Manitoba since 1890? ( goto )



• Why, according to the laws of gravity, does the moon technically not orbit the Earth? ( goto )



• What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to pen the laws of gravity? ( goto )



• What is unusual about the Chicago River? ( goto )



• What was unusual about the 1866 and 1867 Melbourne Cups? ( goto )



• What is unusual about the metal Nitinol? ( goto )



• New York set the first motor-powered vehicle speed laws in 1904, what was the speed? ( goto )



• Under which British monarch or monarchs were the 'Penal Laws' first established, and what was their purpose? ( goto )



• What is so unusual about the Bank of Vernal? ( goto )



• Is there any unusual facts about the star Sirius? ( goto )



• What was unusual about P.T. Barnum's obituary? ( goto )



• What was unusual about the 1934 Welsh Cup final? ( goto )



• What was unusual about the first corneal transplant? ( goto )



• What unusual artist has a pencil for a nose? ( goto )



• What was unusual about Dr James Barry? ( goto )



• Are there any states in the US that have stricter liquor laws then Pennsylvania (we are barely out of Prohibition here)? ( goto )



• Which of Isaac Newton's lesser quoted laws is most associated with the world of forensic science and how is it applied? ( goto )



• How old was Rosa Parks when she got arrested for breaking the segregation laws on a city bus on December 1, 1955? ( goto )



• What was unusual about the original Celsius temperature scale? ( goto )



• There was something unusual about Buddy Holly's funeral. What was it? ( goto )



• What is unusual about the ashtray of a modern Rolls Royce? ( goto )



• What is unusual about all of Virginia Woolf's books? ( goto )



• School was invented to help children stay out of adult labor. If a child quits school, can he or she be forced to do labor due to Child Labor laws? Who came up with the Child Labor laws and when were they passed? ( goto )



• If you threw a coin at a person across the border from the US to Mexico, would you be subject to US laws or Mexican law? ( goto )



• Who said "The libel laws have made it virtually impossible to write a really good racing book about anything but the horses?" ( goto )