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If you live in Michigan, did you know it's illegal to place a skunk inside your bosses desk?
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In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across
Utah to avoid high freight rates.
The laws about carrying wirecutters in your back pocket and shooting buffalo from a moving train have been repealed
(I think...check it out.)
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In Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries prostitutes believed that the higher the heel on their shoe the more men
would pay for their services. Consequently a law was passed banning the wearing of high heels because they began
to trip in the dark and fall into the canals and die.
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Some consider Tycho Brache to be the greatest observer of astronomy of all time. He firmly believed that accurate
observations was the key to improving the study of stars, and with the aid of the King of Denmark, he established
the observatory, Uraniburg, on the island of Hven, which was considered the best observatory in Europe. Brache
studied the supernova of 1572, the comet of 1577 and the motions of the planets. Basing his thinking on traditional
Ptolemic views, Brache developed a system in which the planets revolved around the Sun, which in turn revolved
around a stationary Earth. Tycho Brache was also the mentor of Joannes Kepler, who would later go against Brache’s
theories and develop the three laws on planetary motion. [ISTS]
(15 September 1997)
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It's agaist the law to sleep under a hairdryer in Florida.
stephanie from florida (2 September 1997)
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It is illegal to own a dog in Reykjavik
(23 August 1997)
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According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could
be hanged for trying.
(23 August 1997)
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In the USA there is a law against sending buildings by mail. A man posted a 40,000 ton brick house across the state
of Utah in 1916.
(23 August 1997)
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Germany passed a beer purity law in 1516. - The Reinheitsgebot, the Bavarian Beer Purity Law, states beer will
be made with only malted grains, water, and hops. Many people believe it mentions yeast, but it doesn't. Yeast
was first mentioned in a Munich regulation in 1551.
Mr. Beer from Sunny Cali (22 August 1997)
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It is expressly illegal in Texas to have oral [relations] with fowl. [Source: Texas Penal Code]
Enigma from Texas (31 December 1998)
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It is against the law to play dominoes in Alabama on Sundays.
Jeannie Layson from Atlanta, GA (13 December 1998)
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In speed chess (in which each side has five minutes for the game (as shown by a chess clock)), illegal moves lose,
so the result of overlooking a check is that the king is captured. In tournament 'Quick' chess, in which the time
limit is ten minutes per side, the offending side does not lose, but two minutes are deducted for first offense
and usually the game is forfeited on the second offense. Also, if a player gets mated and THEN sees that the opponent's
flag has fallen, the mate takes precedence. (The same applies to resignation.) (This is true for ANY time limit.)
Barefoot Walker (and barefoot USCF chessplayer) from Iowa (4 November 1998)
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In NYS it is illegal to have consentual sodomy with anyone unless you are married to them. [Source: NYS Penal (hehe)
Law]
Dale from Buffalo (12 October 1998)
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In England (and possibly in America) the law on part-repayment of debt is very ancient. It dates back to a case
called 'Pinnell's Case', from the 17th century. What it says is that if you make an agreement with someone to pay
part of a loan as full payment, the person whom you are repaying can still sue you for the rest, even if he promised
he wouldn't. What's the way out of this? Bizarrely, to pay him the agreed amount, plus something else which isn't
money. Because courts don't look at whether a payment is worth the value that is claimed for it, you can pay off
a £1,000,000 debt (if the creditor agrees) with £1 and a McDonald's fry, and the court will hold that
the creditor valued the McDonald's fry at £999,999. What you mustn't do is just pay money: pay money plus
something else. (Actually, I suppose this could be quite a useful fact). [Source: Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston
- the Law of Contracts]
Anthony Zachary from London (2 December 1997)
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