In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
15
Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
10
Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
37
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
259
The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
36