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Ok here's the game, Someone will suggest a topic (for example the states.) and everyone will come up with something weird from it until we get all the things in the topic. Example
Player 1: Weird things about money! The five dollar bill has some of the states on the top of the Lincoln memorial!
Player 2: Most US$ contain traces of cocaine!
So here's the first one, Weird things from where you're from! I'm from Iowa something weird is that we have a law preventing kissing for more than five minutes.
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we have soooo many things wrong...
The Bluebonnet is the official song of the state flower.
"Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That it adopt the Bluebonnet song as the State Flower Song."
Lets see, whats else...
When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
the weirdest one...
A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
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Just so you know, 99% of the 'laws' listed on strange laws website are fake and only listed because they sounds just true enough to be believed.
yes, the bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas but there is also a song by the same name. that law was resolved in 1933. not so strange.
The two trains law is just an example of a deadlock situation in concurrent programming when two or more competing actions are each waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does.
The beer and anti crime laws are just pure fakes as they are only listed on the so called weird law sites and are not listed on the Texas senate website.
Now for a real one"
You must notify a newspaper before modifying the weather.
Purpose is so people will know if scientists are trying to seed rain clouds in an area to make it rain. Still weird and passed in 2001 but first mentioned way back in 1890 when soldiers tried firing cannons into clouds to produce rain.
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Then again, some of the laws are there, but not enforced and/or active
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Then again, most laws that are listed on these sites are made up purely for the sole purpose of drawing a laugh. One site might even list a law as a joke, then another site sees it, misses the part of it being a joke and then reposts as 'fact'.
Just like the so called facebook facts that everyone posts about, you have to look at these sites with some skepticism. Any search of a states legislative homepage will show without a doubt what is true and what is false. But that is asking to much for those authors.
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I'm from the Netherlands
and did you know
that not every Dutchman
smokes w33d
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Supposedly, in the state I live in, it's illegal to walk on the right side of the footpath.
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The color of house and garage doors is regulated by city bylaws (a purple door get you a fine).
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In Sacramento... there aren't many strange laws here... (that I know of, anyway)
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Where I live the city cannot take away any pets, but no household can have more than 3 dogs.
No clue how that's supposed to work.
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im from kansas and im preaty sure that there is a law that says you can't hunt whales