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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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 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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In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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