In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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In France, by law a bakery has to make all the bread it sells from scratch in order to have the right to be called a bakery.
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In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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