Jeremy Bates

People didn’t always say “hello” when they answered the phone. When the first regular phone service was established in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell suggested answering the phone with “ahoy."

It is illegal to flirt in Haddon Township, New Jersey. Under the section “Peace and Good Order,” a person may be punished for approaching “any person of the opposite s*x unknown to such person and by word, sign or gesture attempts to speak to or to become acquainted with such person against his will.”