Passing by oddities
When the mummified Ramses II was flown to Paris in 1974, he was issued an Egyptian passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased).”
If you’re born on an international flight, your place of birth is listed as ‘born at sea’ on your passport.
You aren’t allowed smile in a passport photo because it hinders face recognition software used in airport cameras.
Jogging is illegal in the city of Bujumbura (capital of Burundi). Twenty-one people have been sentenced for life in prison for doing so.
Queen Elizabeth doesn’t need a passport, as all British passports are issued in her name; she just has to say that she’s the queen.
It is legal to take pictures of people in public places in the US while the same practice is outlawed in Japan. Also, it’s illegal to be fat in Japan!
Back from the Moon, Apollo astronauts had to go through customs and declare moon rock as cargo.
If you want KFC in Gaza, you can pay a company $30 to smuggle it through tunnels across the Egypt/Gaza border within 3 hours.
It is illegal for children in Tokyo to make noise when playing — the legal decibel level city-wide is the same as a library’s.
Google maps show country borders differently depending on which country you are in.
When you walk into a room and you forget why you walked in there in the first place is the phenomenon known as “event boundary.”
Up until 2015, it was illegal to cheat on your spouse in South Korea and the crime was punishable with up to two years in prison.
Men in India receive a free gun license if they get a vasectomy.
Before the assassination of President Kennedy, it was not a Federal offense to kill the President or Vice President of the United States!
These are some of the gems i came across over the past year thanks to FactlyIO and this is just a drop in the ocean of ignorance that drives us as a species. We know so little about ourselves that it’s no surprise that we’ll continue to bask in absurdity. And thank darkness for that!