90 verified laws filed under Public Behavior, each checked against the statute and sourced.
No. A search of the North Dakota Legislative Council's Century Code index turns up no provision linking being asleep and wearing shoes, and none of the lists that repeat the claim cite a section number. The state's real sleeping-room hygiene rules bind the people who run lodging establishments, not the guests in the beds.
Tunisian businesses are legally required to display prices and must include Arabic on commercial signage and product labels — with fines of up to 2,000 dinars for non-compliance. However, the claim that French must also be displayed alongside Arabic is a mischaracterization: the law mandates Arabic, not a French-Arabic bilingual requirement.
No. Washington never passed a House or Senate Bill 626, and no state law requires drivers to have a destination. The claim spread in May 2026 through AI-made fake notices bearing Gov. Bob Ferguson's name, and Washington numbers House bills from 1000, so a bill 626 cannot exist.
True. Massachusetts General Laws chapter 264, section 9 makes it an offence to play, sing or render the Star Spangled Banner in a public place other than as a whole and separate composition, or as dance music, an exit march or part of a medley, with a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. The 1917 statute is still on the books.
No German law classifies a pillow as a weapon, passive or otherwise. 'Passive weapon' (Schutzwaffe) is a real legal term, but it means protective gear such as helmets and shields banned at demonstrations; the only pillow ruling on record is a 2014 Federal Court of Justice case in which a pillow pressed over a victim's face for a minute was treated as a dangerous instrument because of how it was used.
Minnesota became the first U.S. state to ban websites and apps that use AI to generate sexually explicit images of real, identifiable people without their consent. The law took effect August 1, 2026, and carries civil penalties of up to $500,000 per violation.
Utah's disorderly conduct law once included 'abusive or obscene language' as a punishable offense, but that provision was struck down by courts and removed from state law in 1999. Today, casual public swearing is not a crime under Utah state law, though some municipal ordinances can restrict profanity when it rises to the level of a breach of the peace.
Florida law prohibits any person from intentionally feeding or enticing wild American alligators or crocodiles with food. Violations are a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
It is widely claimed that Hawaii has a law making it illegal to place coins in one's ears. Despite viral circulation across hundreds of 'weird laws' websites, no such statute exists anywhere in the Hawaii Revised Statutes or any other official Hawaiian legal code.
Naked hiking is NOT illegal across Switzerland under federal law. But the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden banned it at its 2009 Landsgemeinde, and its fixed-penalty schedule still sets a CHF 200 fine for "being naked in public" — though cantonal police say nobody has been reported in years.
Croatia does prohibit and fine sleeping in public places under its Law on Misdemeanors Against Public Order and Peace. However, the specific extra fine for snoring while asleep in public originates from a widely-reported 2016 draft amendment — and no primary legislative source confirms it was enacted as law.
The widely-shared claim that Alabama law prohibits wearing a fake mustache in church if it causes laughter has no basis in any real statute, ordinance, or regulation. Despite decades of circulation across 'weird laws' lists, no legal researcher has ever located a primary source.