Month: October 2024

I have given up being shocked

Among his latest passing observations (No 261), Dr. Vernon Coleman gives us a sample of “daft laws.”  In 1712, England imposed a tax on printed wallpaper. In Rumford, Maine, it was illegal for a tenant to bite a landlord. In Youngstown, Ohio, it was illegal to tie a giraffe to a lamppost.

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