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 Cuba, hitchhiking is encouraged and government vehicles are legally required to pick up hitchhikers.
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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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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 Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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