In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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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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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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