50 Interesting Rules From Around the World

In 2020, Citibank unwittingly sent $900 million to lenders of the makeup visitor Revlon. It's an unwritten rule in the financial world that such huge payments sent by mistake are sent back. That's what everyone thought would happen, but that money was never sent back. When this specimen went to court, it surprised everyone when the magistrate ruled that the lenders could alimony it.

2. Lately, the FBI has been struggling to rent good hackers considering of a FBI hiring rule, equal to which the write-in must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years. This policy isn't hurting the hackers, but it is hurting the organ in finding capable hackers.

3. The official Yu Gi Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause in the rulebook. This allows judges to penalize players with dirty suit or terrible odor by giving them a loss. Super Smash Bros tournament has moreover started implementing similar rules.

4. The showrunners of The Road Runner Show had some ground rules in place for the show which they very closely followed. They had rules such as "No outside gravity can harm the Coyote", "The Road Runner must stay on the road", and "No dialog ever, except beep-beep."

5. In the 1850s, baseball had variegated rules in Massachusetts than it did in New York. Under the Massachusetts rules, you could throw the wittiness at a runner, and if you hit them, they were out.

The Kiplingcotes Derby which takes place in England each year is the world's oldest horse race. When it was established in 1519, rules were set in place that it must be run every year or never be run again. Inclement weather has threatened the race several times, causing a single rider to lead a horse virtually the track to prevent the race from stuff canceled permanently.

7. U.S. television stations east of the Mississippi River all have undeniability signs starting with a "W" and ones to the west have undeniability signs whence with a "K". Dallas and Texas has both considering of a weird rule when they moved the demarcation.

8. Some researchers credit Ghengis Khan with the implementation of the 'five-second rule' calling it the 'Khan rule.' The idea overdue it was that the supplies prepared for Khan was so special that it would be good for anyone to eat no matter what.

9. Burj Khalifa is so tall that the sun can still be seen for several minutes without it has set at ground level. This has led Dubai clerics to rule that those living whilom the 80th floor should wait 2 spare minutes to unravel their Ramadan fast.

10. In the childbirth scene of "Gone with the Wind," only the actors' shadows is shown not for originative reasons, but to get virtually the Hays Code rule prohibiting sexual worriedness and childbirth onscreen. Melanie, Scarlett, and Prissy are shown only as shadows on a wall due to the rule.

Disney was forced to welsh its policy of letting disabled people skip lines in its theme parks, without rampant vituperate of the rule by people hiring disabled "tour guides" to skip waiting for rides. These guides sometimes charged up to hundreds of dollars per hour.

12. Most airlines have a rule stating that pilots and copilots cannot eat the same meal to stave supplies poisoning.

13. Children in Iceland are not unliable to have names with the letter "C" in them. All names must conform to the rules of the Icelandic language, which does not have the letter "C".

14. The French Specie Law of 1993 outlines specific rules for the sale of specie in France. The rules specify that baguettes cannot be frozen surpassing the sale and must be made fresh with no additives. It plane specifies a maximum pH level and yes-man counts for sourdough starters.

15. When Golf was introduced in India by the British during their colonial rule, they were wroth by monkeys running onto the undertow and misplacing their balls. When all attempts to stop the monkeys failed, they decided the game needed to adapt. To do so, they introduced a new rule: "Play the wittiness where the monkey drops it."

Greenland cannot join FIFA considering not unbearable grass can be grown there to have an official field.

17. North Korea has its own basketball rules. Slam dunks there are worth three points, field goals in the final three minutes of the game are worth eight points, three-pointers are worth four if the wittiness doesn't touch the rim, and a point is deducted for missed self-ruling throws.

18. The rules of Monopoly unmistakably state that if a player lands on a property and doesn't buy it, it immediately goes up for vendition to the highest bidder.

19. In 1475, when Queen Isabella unified Spain and sent Christopher Columbus to discover America, a new piece in Chess was introduced. This piece named the queen could move only one square at a time, like the King. It wasn’t until 1495, when Isabella became the most powerful woman in Europe, that new rules in chess were established, in which the queen was given the power to moves in all directions on the board.

20. If the warmed-over Persians decided on something while drunk, they had the rule to reconsider it when sober and if they made a visualization sober, they would reconsider it while drunk.

Stephen Colbert's father and two older brothers died in a plane crash considering the cockpit hairdo became distracted from talking while landing the plane. A few years later, the FAA created the 'Sterile Cockpit Rule,' prohibiting staff from engaging in non-essential conversation once unelevated 10,000 ft.

22. In 2004, a consumer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That's 100 whinge patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they unprotesting orders of any size at uneaten cost. Since then In-N-Out reverted its rules and capped the burger at 4x4.

23. The official rules of Ping Pong indulge the wittiness to touch your paddle hand, which includes all fingers and the hand zone unelevated the wrist. Players though cannot touch the wittiness with a non-paddle hand for any reason.

24. "The 12 pubs of Christmas" is a popular tradition is Ireland. Participants go to 12 variegated pubs in one night, having one drink (most wontedly a pint of beer) in each Pub. Participants moreover follow unusual rules such as, "No sitting in pub 3", "No using the washroom in pub 7," etc.

25. Air traffic controllers uncontrived commercial flights to fly at "even" or "odd" levels. The unstipulated rule in most parts of the world is watercraft going east will fly at odd levels, i.e. 35,000 feet, while watercraft heading west will fly plane levels, i.e. 34,000 feet.