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  • Elmo, a puppet from the children’s television show “Sesame Street,” testified on April 23,2002 during a House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. He was testifying in favour of school music education. He is the first puppet in history to testify on Capitol Hill.
  • There is a law in the state of Idaho that does not permit one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that is heavier than 50 pounds.
  • More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles.
  • Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.
  • A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
  • By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years.
  • In 1998, a law passed in the U.S. state of Virginia allows drivers to keep their road kill, as long as they report it within 12 hours.
  • In Alabama, it is against the law to wear a fake mustache that could cause laughter in the church.
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