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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Fitts's law is used to model the act of pointing, both in the real world, e.g. with a hand or finger, and on a computer, e.g. with a mouse. Flynn effect describes the phenomenon of an increase in IQ test scores for many populations at an average rate of three IQ points per decade since the early 20th century.
Driving rules and regulations certainly vary around the world, but Thailand's shirt ordinance is perhaps the most puzzling. It's illegal to drive without your top on in the country. Get caught ...
The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent human population. Northwest Angle This little spoke jutting out of northern Minnesota was created as the result of a surveying error, and its land is completely cut off from the rest of the U.S ...
Both civil (also known as Roman) and common law systems can be considered the most widespread in the world: civil law because it is the most widespread by landmass and by population overall, and common law because it is employed by the greatest number of people compared to any single civil law system. [2] [3] [4]
Between John Batman and a group of Wurundjeri elders for the sale of land around Port Phillip, Australia. 1836 Treaties of Velasco: Between Mexico and the Republic of Texas, establishing the independence of Texas. Treaty of Washington (1836) The Ottawa and Chippewa Indians cede parts of northern Michigan to the United States. 1837 Munich Coin ...
da Vinci's law (after Leonardo da Vinci, actually several laws; like in fluid mechanics, proportion, friction, of free fall (which was wrong)) Galileo's law of free fall Pythagoras' law: When the tension on a string remains the same but the length L is varied, the period of the vibration is proportional to L (after the guy with the rectangular ...
Explore the Wikipedia category dedicated to unexplained phenomena, featuring a collection of mysterious events and occurrences.