Boring Statistics and outdated laws of home town

I love facts and figures. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who wants to swap numbers or outdated laws about where they live or where they were born.

Email at least 2 delicious (well for me anyway) snippets of information to 2 partners.

As an example the town where I was born in 1959 had a population of 140000. Up until 2000 it still had a law saying a man, notice it had to be a man, had to walk in front of a motor vehicle waving a red flag if it was being driven over 10 mph. This was so it did not frighten carriage horses. They must have walked a lot faster then. It was also the last town in this country to dump prohibition, probably to make sure that man with the red flag wasn't drunk.