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create a website today weird laws in
history there were some strange laws
made in the past but are they as strange
as they seem
let's look at some of them now from 1886
to 1948 it was an arrest able offense to
buy or sell margarine in Canada this
made sense as it was brought in to
protect the Canadian butter industry
some Canadian states could not let go of
their hatred for margarine as it was
illegal to sell buttered color margarine
in Ontario until 1995 in the United
Kingdom a law dating back to 1313 does
not allow people to wear Armour or carry
any kind of weapon inside the houses of
parliament unless they are part of the
security detail guarding it it is
thought that king edward ii brought in
this law to curb the growing tactic of
rowdiness and intimidation of armed
force that some of the nobles were
regularly starting to use during the
parliamentary debates the law is so
loosely worded that it is still enforced
today as it is deemed to cover guns and
bulletproof vests as they are modern
weaponry and armor in 1541 and act for
the maintenance of artillery and d
barring of unlawful games was passed due
to the growing fear that the once
legendary archery skills of the English
was in serious decline the law
stipulated the following things all men
over 17 years of age from all towns and
cities must practice archery every week
for two hours at the appropriate
designated areas all children between 7
and 17 years must possess a bow and two
arrows men over 17 must possess a bow
and four arrows so they might help
defend the country in times of peril the
bow should be of good quality have be
made from elm ash or cedar foreigners
are allowed to own a bow but not
participate in the practice or be
allowed to take their bows and arrows
outside of the country understandably
with the advent of muskets becoming more
widespread and the development of ever
more sophisticated weaponry the
legislation was heavily
down over the next century then finally
in 1863 it was removed from the statute
books altogether the Russian Emperor
Peter the Great who reigned from 1670 to
to 1725 brought in many new laws
including one to tax anyone who wanted
to grow or maintain a beard this was
brought in because Peter the Great was
impressed by the European fashion of
being clean-shaven
at first it was met with strong
opposition by the church who saw this
law as blasphemous but eventually they
relented and the annual beard tax was to
remain in force until 1772 when
Catherine the second repealed the law in
Arizona in 1855 it was made illegal to
hunt or shoot camels at first glance
this may sound pretty strange as camels
are not native to that part of the world
nor did Arizona even have any zoos at
that time but there was a good reason
for passing such a law at the time the
US Army was experimenting with using
camels instead of mules on the more hot
and desert type regions of the United
States and they chose Arizona to test
out their new camel units it all made a
lot of sense as camels could carry two
or three times more payload than the
average mule and could travel in desert
conditions for up to 85 miles without
water if a mule was to attempt to do
this it would be dead from dehydration
after only having done a quarter of that
distance the experiment ultimately
failed as the camels proved to be
temperamental and controlling them in
large military formations proved
impossible
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