Places & Culture

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

More Monopoly money is printed each year than real US dollars. Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) prints about $30 billion in Monopoly money annually, while the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces around $500 million to $1 billion in new currency.

In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

A mathematical thought experiment once claimed that if China's population walked past you in single file, the line would never end due to reproduction rates—but China's population is now declining for the first time since 1961.

In Hawaiian culture, wearing a flower behind the right ear traditionally signals that a person is single and available, while wearing it behind the left ear indicates they are taken.

There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.

There are around 200 frozen corpses on Mount Everest.

In 1992, a cargo ship spilled 28,800 rubber bath toys into the Pacific Ocean. Some were found in Alaska 10 months later, while others traveled over 17,000 miles and washed up on Atlantic shores 15 years later, helping scientists study ocean currents.

Las Vegas casinos don't have clocks on their main gambling floors.

The Bible is among the most-shoplifted books in the world.

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

While precise annual figures are elusive, a considerable amount of money is spent on lap dances in Las Vegas, showcasing a unique facet of the city's entertainment economy.

Your lifetime statistical chance of being murdered in the United States is approximately 1 in 179.

Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!

Collect seven or nine different flowers on midsummer eve and place them under your pillow and it is said that you will dream of your future spouse. (Sweden)

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.