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Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
Stein's law: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. If a trend cannot go on forever, there is no need for action or a program to make it stop, much less to make it stop immediately; it will stop of its own accord. Stevens's power law, in psychophysics, relates the intensity of a stimulus to its perceived strength.
Oregon has several strange laws still technically enforceable. Laws involving fortune-telling and playing golf in parks are among the state's oddest. Odd Oregon laws that may surprise you, such as ...
In March 2015, a YouTube account with the title Unfavorable Semicircle was created; the channel began uploading large numbers of videos on April 5. [2] The channel continued to post large numbers of videos all titled with the Sagittarius symbol or a random six digit number, or both, but most lacking a description. The videos often display ...
Thousands of artists — ranging from the late Norman Rockwell to the Oscar-nominated director Wes Anderson — have been named in a widely circulated list of people whose work was used to train a ...
Check out the slideshow above to discover nine weird, funny and absurd but true food laws. More From Kitchen Daily: Six Weird Food Tours in America Why Gazpacho Isn't Taxed: And Other Weird Food Taxes
Edison was born completely blind due to an underdeveloped optic nerve. [2] He was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Canterbury School and the University of Bridgeport, where he studied music. [3] He has credited his parents for treating him the same as his sighted sisters during his upbringing. [10]
The app, which creators claim to be inspired by chaos theory and Guy Debord's Theory of the Dérive, [2] offers its users three types of coordinates to choose from: an attractor, a void, or an anomaly. [3] The app has a cult following on YouTube and TikTok and there is a subreddit made by the creators for users of the app. [3]