How about this one: The tomato is a fruit botanically but the U.S. officailly claims its a vegetable. This was brought up in the late nineteenth century when some guy didn't want to pay tax on his tomatoes. In 1893, Jon Nix imported tomatoes from the West Indies and at that time there was a 10% duty on all vegatable imorts and fruit was duty-free. Nix claimed it was a fruit and sued. The case went all the up to the fledgling U.S. Supreme Court. The court decided that since the vegetable was thought and used as a vegetable than it should be treated as such. Beautiful logic really: The people are uniformed and are ok with it; why spoil it with the truth when we could make some money. The case: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/script...=149&invol=304

(I meant to post this about about 25 minutes ago, but I forgot I wrote it.) Happy 4/20.