What if you're whistling for some other reason? Well, no one knows. This law came to be when someone bothered the entire town of Berkely while he whistled for his pet canary to come home. They must have been pretty disgruntled.
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- The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
- The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
- Crayola is literally "oily chalk."