Bizarre Laws & History
In 1386, a pig in France was officially arrested, put on trial in a courtroom, and executed for this serious crime.
What is murder? (It attacked a child).
This marine creature doesn't have a brain, eyes, or bones, and its body is made of 95% water.
What is a jellyfish?
Because it cannot support fire or sound, this environment is completely silent.
What is space (or a vacuum)?
This blocky sandbox game is officially the best-selling video game of all time, beating out Tetris and GTA V.
What is Minecraft?
If you sail directly south from Detroit, Michigan, you will actually cross the border and enter this country.
What is Canada? (Due to a river bend, parts of Ontario are south of Detroit).
In the UK, it is technically illegal to handle this specific type of pinkish fish under "suspicious circumstances."
What is a salmon? (Salmon Act 1986).
This logic-defying mammal has the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, and males have venomous stingers on their back legs.
What is a platypus?
This is the only rock on Earth that can naturally float on water.
What is pumice?
In 2019, a simple picture of this breakfast item broke the internet by becoming the most-liked photo on Instagram, defeating Kylie Jenner.
What is an egg?
Because of the way the earth curves, this US state is actually the closest one to Africa.
What is Maine?
In 1820, a man had to eat a basket of these on the steps of a New Jersey courthouse to prove to a terrified public that they weren't poisonous.
What are tomatoes?
Horned lizards have a terrifying defense mechanism where they can shoot this fluid out of their own eyeballs.
What is blood?
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for this to travel from its source to the Earth's surface.
What is sunlight?
This streaming platform was originally founded in 2005 as a video-dating website called "Tune In, Hook Up." It didn't work.
What is YouTube?
This is the largest country in the world that doesn't have a single permanent natural river flowing through it.
What is Saudi Arabia?
In Arizona, it is legally forbidden to let this specific spiked desert plant sleep in your bathtub.
What is a donkey? (An old law passed after a local rancher's donkey floated away when a dam broke).
Because they lack standard stomachs, these giant ocean predators have to digest their food using a spiral-shaped valve in their intestines.
What are sharks?
Bananas are surprisingly radioactive because they contain high levels of this specific element on the periodic table.
What is potassium?
This popular video game character was originally named "Jumpman" when he first appeared in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong.
What is Mario?
Canada is famous for its cold weather, but surprisingly, over 50% of Canadians live south of this specific US state's northern border.
What is Washington? (Or Montana/North Dakota—the 49th parallel).
For over 30 years, this popular toy was completely banned in Sweden because the government classified it as "weapons training for children."
What is Laser Tag?
This specific bird is the only creature on Earth that can fly backward and upside down.
What is a hummingbird?
If you could magically fold a standard piece of paper in half this many times, it would become thick enough to reach the moon.
What is 42 times?
This is the specific name for the CAPTCHA tests you click online to prove you aren't a robot by identifying traffic lights and crosswalks.
What is "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"? (Accept "Turing Test").
This tiny European country is completely landlocked by just one single city: Rome.
What is Vatican City?