12735

Human brains weigh about 44 to 50 ounces. The biggest brain in any class of apes is only about 16 ounces

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12736

Have you ever tried to sell something big to someone, who tells you, "I'll have to sleep on it." There is validity to this technique. A person can enhance their decision making power while sleeping. This is done through dreams. It seems that while dreaming we are practicing our thinking skills, and more specifically, reprocessing our thoughts and activities of the previous day. We are able to see issues more clearly the next day, and therefore make better decisions, because we have new power. We have let our brain process the issue overnight. This is an essential trait to survival.

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12737

Goofy Laws

When Peter the Great, who couldn't grow a respectable beard, was in power, any Russian who had a beard was required to pay a beard tax.

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12738

During the 1920's there was a law in Russia that all private automobiles (not ones used by the government) had to have a yellow stripe painted all the way around the whole body.

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12739

Don't get caught chewing gum in Singapore. For this horrible offense, you could be fined $6,250.00 or spend a year in jail. The reason might be that politicians were tired of cleaning gum off their shoes.

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12740

There are about 10,000 injuries related to fireworks every year in America.

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12741

There is an actual court case on record named: "The United States v. 350 Cartons of Canned Sardines." It has something to do with interstate commerce

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12742

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

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12743

In Illinois, prison inmates were offered free plastic surgery to change their faces. Of those who elected to become "new men" their rate of committing new crimes after release was less than average.

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12744

If you live in Kentucky, you must take a bath at least once per year. It's the law

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12745

In Massachusetts you can't legally use tomatoes in clam chowder

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12746

In New York City, it is illegal to greet anyone "by placing the end of his thumb against the tip of his nose, at the same time extending and wriggling the fingers of his hand.

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12747

There is a law against shooting rabbits from a New York City trolley car.

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12748

Having a bad day? Check these out....

On the night of July 5, 1991, while sleeping soundly with his wife, a police officer dreamed that someone was breaking into their house. Half waking up, he grabbed his gun from his night stand and promptly shot himself in the leg. His wife slept through it. He was reported in satisfactory condition at the local hospital.

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12749

As a promotional stunt at a baseball game in 1939 catcher Joe Sprinz tried to catch a baseball dropped from 1,200 feet in the air. He said he could see the ball all the way down, but somehow instead of catching it in his mitt, it hit him in the face, cracking his jaw in 12 places.

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