The mammoth book of oddballs and eccentrics - Karl Shaw

Featuring a vast and extraordinary collection of crackpots, visionaries, despots, prophets, performers, royals, politicians, inventors, philosophers, writers, artists and just plain eccentrics and their phobias, compulsions, odd beliefs and plain weird habits, including weird laws. By the same author as the Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists

! In Alaska it's illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the purposes of taking a photo
!In Vermont women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth
!In California it's illegal to set a mousetrap without first obtaining a hunting permit
!In Minnesota a person may not cross the state line with a duck on their head
!Elvis Presley was convinced that he could turn on the Gracelands sprinkler system with his thoughts
!Florence Nightingale kept a miniature pet owl in her pocket
!Salvador Dali ate vast quantities of Camembert before going to bed so that his dreams would be more vivid