Singapore is a nation of gum-grabbers. It is illegal to sell or own chewing gum there.
Unless one has a doctor’s prescription for the gum.
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Idaho murder impunity — There is a 50-square mile spot in Idaho where one can murder with impunity. Or so goes the theory.
It concerns an uninhabited section of Yellowstone Park, which is under federal jurisdiction.
The 6th Amendment requires a trial by “an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed”.
Since no one lives in that part of Idaho a jury meeting that requirement couldn’t be impaneled.
Or so it is claimed.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-26-16
English speakers pronounce caesar wrong. The way it was said in Latin is with the “k” sound like “kaisar”.
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UPS trucks never make left turns. Well, almost never.
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Gandhi once called Hitler “his sincere friend”. But only because he was trying to stop World War II. It was in a letter written July 23, 1939.
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Who were the deadliest and second deadliest man alive? That would be John Timothy “Count Dante” Keehan and his sidekick Douglas Dwyer. They were arrested on July 22, 1965 in Chicago when they tried to tape dynamite caps to a rival dojo. Both were under the influence of alcohol. Keehan would advertise his skills in comic books.
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The great presidents were not great drinkers. Washington liked dark porter laced with molasses but refrained from the hard stuff. Lincoln drank water. Reagan mostly stuck to wine.
The not-so-great-presidents, well, Franklin Pierce died of cirrhosis of the liver at age 65. He reportedly said “what can an ex-president of the United States do except get drunk?”
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President Grover Cleveland hanged people. Personally. It was part of his duties when he was sheriff of Erie County, N.Y.
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Herbert Hoover had a great wine collection but his wife dumped it when Prohibition hit. This was before Hoover became president.
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Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is almost directly on the equator but has a spring-like climate throughout the year. It’s the height. The city sits 9,300 feet above sea level.