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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Until 1976, taxi cabs in Australia were required to carry a bale of hay in the trunk.
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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 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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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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