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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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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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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