Law

In pre-Islamic Turkey, if a wife let the family coffee pot run dry, her husband was free to divorce her.

The opposite was true in Saudi Arabia, where a woman was free to divorce her husband if he didn't keep her supplied with coffee.

If you curse within earshot of a woman in Egypt, the law says you forfeit two days pay.

In Rio de Janeiro, it's illegal to dance the samba in a tunnel.

If you're arrested for drunk driving in Malaysia, you and your wife goes to jail.

Red cars are outlawed in Shanghai, China.

-source: Uncle John' s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader