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• [Law fact 1]  Mackinac Island, Michigan is culturally preserved in time and has banned motorized vehicles for over 100 years. Most of the travel on the island is done by horse-drawn carriages and bikes.

  Law, Places source

• [Law fact 2]  More people die from selfies than from shark attacks.

  Death, Law

• [Law fact 3]  The Sammy Hagar song "I Can't Drive 55" is a song protesting a US federal law (the National Maximum Speed Law) that had mandated a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour (90 km/h). The law was repealed in 1995.

  Law, Music source

• [Law fact 4]  In 1856, the U.S. passed the Guano Islands Act, which allowed its citizens to temporarily possess any unclaimed islands to mine their guano deposits.

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• [Law fact 5]  There are over 200 bodies on Mount Everest. Their bodies are so well preserved that they are used as trail markers.

  Death, Law

• [Law fact 6]  In Japan, the law forbids drivers to use car horns and bicycle bells unless it’s necessary. That’s why city streets are very quiet.

  Countries, Law source

• [Law fact 7]  Human bodies donated to science are often sold by for-profit corporations to medical schools, etc. Even though selling body parts is illegal in the U.S., the loophole is that the fee is for the “service” of procuring the bodies.

  Humanbody, Law source

• [Law fact 8]  Hair and nails do not grow after death. They appear to grow as soft tissues of the fingers and scalp dry out and shrink from fingernails and hair roots

  Death, Law

• [Law fact 9]  The owner of a brand name can lose their legal protection for it if people started using it as the common or generic name for a type of product or service. This is what happened to Cellophane, Escalator, Flip Phone, Frisbee, Hovercraft, Kerosene, Sellotape, Trampoline, and Videotape. This is why Adobe really doesn’t want you using “photoshop” as a verb. This also nearly happened to Nintendo, which is why Nintendo promoted the use of the term “games console” so people would stop calling consoles produced by other manufacturers “Nintendos.”

  Corporation, Law source

• [Law fact 10]  In 1996, a bill called the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.

  Food, Law source

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