La Petite Syrah, a wine bar and bistro in Nice, France, charges extra for rude customers. People who just ask for coffee have to pay 7.50 while adding a “please” drops the price to 4.25. If you say, “hello, a coffee please.” Then you will only pay 1.40.
There’s a competition called The World’s Biggest Liar held annually in England. Competitors from around the world are given five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can think of. Politicians and lawyers are banned from entering the competition because they are thought to be too good at lying.
President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot was kicked out of Jackson’s funeral in 1845 for cursing.
Brazilian police on Marajo Island ride water buffalo when they patrol instead of horses.
In 1896, the world’s first speeding ticket was given to a British man that was going four times the speed limit. Walter Arnold, who was going eight miles per hour in a two-mile-per-hour zone was caught by a policeman on a bicycle and was fined one shilling, which was about eight US cents.
Residents of the village of Shitterton in England grew so tired of people stealing a sign with the village name on it, that they replaced it with a 1.5-ton block of stone with the village name inscribed on it.
