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(Our happy-hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.)

Transport authorities in Japan have appointed "etiquette police" to enforce polite behavior on commuter trains.

A recent poll in Japan found that 90 percent of people felt standards of public behavior had worsened, especially on packed trains.

In response, "Smile-Manner Squadrons" have been deployed in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. They will be asking travelers to give up seats for the elderly, turn down their headphones, stop applying make-up in public and stop talking loudly on cell phones.

We at Asylum would love to see authorities try to apply this system in New York City. But we have a feeling that the trains would suddenly become a lot more dangerous...at least for anyone wearing a "Smile-Manner Squadron" T-shirt.