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QUIET VIOLET

It was once against the law in France to utter the name of Napoleon's favorite flower (the violet) in public.

FISHY LAWS

Don't get a fish drunk in Oklahoma; you could go to jail. No catching whales either; that's against the law too. (Oklahoma is landlocked.)

BEE LAWFUL

No bees are allowed to fly in Kirkland, Illinois.

WATERING HOLE

The ancient Code of Hammurabi in Babylon specified that a merchant could be put to death for diluting beer.

THE LAWFUL CURE

Seventeenth-century lawyers are credited with the discovery of St. John's wort as a treatment for depression.

ELEPHANT PROHIBITION

Elephants can't drink beer in Natchez, Mississippi.

YOU CAN BURN THE FLAG!
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