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Houston has a program that allows citizens to give tickets to those who abuse handicap parking spaces, after taking a four hour course.

Rat Park. When given the choice between normal water and morphine water, the rats always chose the drugged water and died. When in Rat Park where they had space, friends and games, they rarely took the drug water and never became addicted or overdosed despite many attempts to trick them

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1. The one liner, "Why Do We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways?" seems ironic because the terms predate automobiles. Way means path, park means scenic natural space, and drive means short private road.

2. Lottie Williams is the only person to have been hit by re-entering space debris. She was walking through a park in Tulsa Oklahoma in Jan 1997 at 3:30 am and felt a tapping on her shoulder. It was a piece of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket launched in 1996. She was unhurt.

3. In China some parking lots have spaces reserved for female parking. These spaces are wider and make parking easier and reduces accidents

4. In 2007, a new parking garage in Germany ended up with two parking bays that had a peculiar shape and required a complicated parking maneuver in order to park there. Officials declared them Men's Parking Spaces to discourage unskilled drivers from attempting the maneuver.

5. A Hong Kong couple earned a US$330,000 profit in nine months… by reselling a parking space.

6. There are 5 so called "Lagrangian Points" wherein the gravitational effects from the Sun and Earth balance out. These points would act as a solar parking space for objects within their limits.

7. There's a "virtual reality theme park" being built in Utah where players wear sensors on their head, hands, torso, and feet which allow them to play inside a VR game in a physical space in real time. Players can interact with physical objects and other people as well as digital objects.

8. The difference between Hotel and Motel is that Motel's are "Motorist Hotels" in that they are designed to have large parking spaces, usually allow guests to park directly in front of their rooms and allow easy access to major roads.

9. You have to have a parking space first, and get a "Proof of Parking Space Certificate" from the police station nearest to where the parking space is located, before you can buy a car in Japan.

10. A subterranean space in Romania carved out centuries ago is now home to the world's largest salt mining museum and amusement park. Located 120 meters below the surface, it contains a lake with boats, sports arena, amphitheater, mini golf course and bowling lanes.

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There exist women's parking spaces. They are usually near exits to increase the safety of women, to facilitate the act of parking, or to facilitate walking to shopping or employment destinations.

A parking space in Hong Kong sold for a record $664,300.00. Car park cost more than some two-bedroom homes in the city. - source

According to statistics from Stockholm (capital of Sweden) the cars with the highest number of parking violations (weighted for number of cars) are Jeep, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Lexus. Mercedes owners were the worst for parking in handicap spaces. - source

India's first butterfly enclosure was opened in Bannerghatta National Park in 2006. It contains the conservatory, an audio visual room, and a museum. It supports more than 20 butterfly species in 10,000 square feet of space.

If cars become driverless there will be an estimated 80% less emissions, 90% less accidents, as much as 40% less traffic congestion, and space saved in parking.

On a gated road past the summit of Haleakala Mountain is the Haleakala Observatory. This is where satellites and other debris that orbits the earth are tracked as part of the Maui Space Surveillance System.

Writer Harlan Ellison once worked for Disney for "more money than anyone had ever offered him for anything". Also, a private parking space, office and secretary. Bored, he joked with co-workers about doing a porn Disney flick and gave colorful details. Four hours later he had a pink slip.

7,000 acres in the Bronx is designated as parks and open space. New York Botanical Gardens, the Bronx Zoo, Van Cortland Park and Pelham Bay Park are all included in this area.

In 1989, 2 black toddlers vanished from the same play park in New York in the space of 2 months. Before both child disappeared, they were spotted playing with the same brother & sister.

South Korea has 'Women-Only' parking spaces which are bigger and marked by pink skirts

There have been at least 517 different bird species identified at Kruger National Park. Six species are of particular interest because of vulnerability to changes in habitat or their need for a lot of space. These are referred to as the ‘Big Six Birds".