bizarre historical coincidences and weirdest laws still on the books for funny trivia

Here are some good funny-trivia picks from the sources:

Bizarre historical coincidences

• Lincoln and Kennedy are the classic pair: both were elected in a year ending in 60, both were shot on a Friday, both were succeeded by a Johnson, and both had assassins with three names totaling 15 letters.^[6][8]
• The Titan and the Titanic is one of the wildest near-matches ever written down: Morgan Robertson’s 1898 novella Futility imagined an “unsinkable” ship called the Titan that hit an iceberg in April, and the Titanic did something eerily similar 14 years later.^[6][8]
• Twain and Halley’s Comet is another famous one: Mark Twain was born in 1835, the year the comet passed, and died the day after its closest approach in 1910.^[6][8]
• The Archduke’s wrong turn helped change history: Gavrilo Princip had missed his chance to kill Franz Ferdinand, then the driver made a wrong turn and stopped right in front of him.^[6]
• The same name, same fate weirdness shows up too: one source says a British soldier was killed near a tree planted by his father, who had served in the same regiment.^[8]

Weird laws still on the books

• Idaho: cannibalism is usually illegal, but the source says it is allowed under life-threatening survival conditions as the only apparent means of survival.^[2]
• Michigan: cheating is illegal, blasphemy is still illegal, and you cannot be drunk on a train.^[2]
• Wisconsin: cheese must be “highly pleasing,” and lutefisk is specifically exempted from being considered a toxic substance under an employees’ right-to-know law.^[2][3]
• Wyoming: it is illegal to injure a fish with a firearm, so yes, “shooting fish in a barrel” is apparently not a strategy there.^[2]
• Florida: bars and restaurants can be fined if they allow dwarf tossing, and selling alcohol during a hurricane is also illegal.^[2]
• Massachusetts: remixing, dancing to, or only partially singing the national anthem can get you fined, and swearing at sporting events if you are over 16 is still against the law.^[2]
• Washington: killing Bigfoot was once a felony in Skamania County, and another source says there is still a law against attaching a vending machine to a utility pole without consent.^[5][9]
• Maine: in South Berwick, it is illegal to park in front of Dunkin’ Donuts because those spots are reserved for police officers.^[2]

One important caveat: the Wikipedia source notes that many “weird laws” online are exaggerated, obsolete, or outright fake, so some of these work best as trivia with a wink rather than hard legal fact.^[3]

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