When Pepsi started marketing its products in China, they translated their slogan "Pepsi Brings You Back to Life" literally word for word. Unfortunately the slogan interpreted back from the Chinese characters reads "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave."

• A 16 year old boy deodorized himself to death. He suffered a heart attack because his blood contained 10 times the lethal dose of propane and butane. It had accumulated because he had sprayed his body for months with extreme amounts of deodorant.
• A 73 year old New York man died of exposure on his own front porch during the freezing winter of 1989, when he became stuck in a trash can. People who passed by thought he was joking around so no one stopped to help.
• A woman was so worried about dying of stomach cancer that she drank 4 gallons of water a day. She died at the age of 29 of kidney failure.
• A California woman who had been arrested for shoplifting, declared she would hold her breath until she turned blue if the police didn't release her. They refused to release her so she held her breath and died.
• A 27 year old man died when he glued his nostrils shut. He had confused a bottle of glue with his nasal spray.
• In 1998 a Frenchman intent on committing suicide devised what he thought was a fool proof method. He planned to jump from a cliff with a noose around his neck, the other end securely tied to a large rock. In addition he drank poison and set fire to himself before he jumped. To top it off, he fired a pistol at his head. Contrary to his plan, the bullet missed his head but severed the rope so he didn't hang. His burning clothes were extinguished by the cold ocean at the bottom of the cliff. The water w as so cold that it caused him to vomit the poison. He was rescued from the water and taken to a hospital. There he did finally die of hypothermia.

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How many Genealogists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Six!

• One to travel to the factory to record the name and age of the bulb.
• One to test to see if the line is still alive.
• One to trace the line back to the pole.
• Two to argue over the name of the original pole where the line started
• And one to screw in the bulb and write a detailed biographical account of the experience.

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• 10.In Tennessee, it is illegal to hunt birds from an airplane.
• 9. In Utah, first cousins can marry, but only after they are 65 years old.
• 8. In Arkansas, no person can honk their horn in a restaurant after 9PM
• 7. In California, it is illegal to play bingo while drunk
• 6. In Arkansas, it is illegal to spend more than 5 minutes voting.
• 5. In Hawaii, children must be 12 years old before they can legally play on a busy highway.
• 4. In Illinois, it is a felony to eavesdrop on your own conversation.
• 3. In Delaware, it is illegal to sell perfume as a drink.
• 2. In Indiana, it is illegal to dye a bird.
  And the number ONE Bizarre State Law:
• 1. In Massachusetts it is illegal to frighten a pigeon.