In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
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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 California, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, it's against the law to hold a "Ladies' Night" because it's deemed gender discrimination.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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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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John F. Kennedy ordered over 1,000 Cuban cigars for personal use just hours before he made them illegal.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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