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 Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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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 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 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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