★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★A group of frogs is called an army.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★An octopus has nine brains.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The moon has moonquakes.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★A group of frogs is called an army.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★An octopus has nine brains.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The moon has moonquakes.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

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How to play Law or lie

Law or lie shows you five strange sounding laws a day, one at a time. For each one you decide: is this an actual law somewhere in the world, or did we make it up? Tap real law or total lie, or on a keyboard press the left arrow for real and the right arrow for a lie. After each guess we reveal the truth with a short explanation. When all five are done you get a score out of five and a spoiler-free grid to share. A new set of laws appears every day.

Tips

The truth is often stranger than fiction, do not dismiss a law just because it sounds silly
Very specific laws (a town, a year, an exact fine) are frequently real
A law that sounds like a clean joke with a neat punchline is often the made up one
Trust your gut on the first read, overthinking usually flips a right answer to wrong

About Law or lie

Every country has laws on the books that sound completely made up, and that is the whole joke behind Law or lie. We mixed real, verifiable weird laws from around the world with plausible fakes and ask you to tell them apart. It plays in the same quick daily decision lane as Fake or fact, one of our most popular games. Five rounds, a score, a grid to share, no login and no ads.

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