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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
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In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
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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 Australia, it is illegal to walk on the right-hand side of a footpath.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
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