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It is illegal to eat mince pies on December 25.
This decree from Oliver Cromwell in 1644 was meant to combat gluttony. You’re all criminals!
It is illegal to own a stink bomb.
30-371. Prohibition of stink bombs. (a) No person shall sell or offer for sale, either as an individual or as an officer, member, agent, servant, or employee of any firm, partnership, association, or corporation, nor shall any person possess, within the City limits, a novelty item, commonly sknown as a stink bomb, that when activated…
Royal Navy ships entering the Port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London.
Although not enforced in modern times, this law is still on the books. In fact, there is an annual ceremony of the Constable’s Dues, where the Royal Navy moors one of its boats alongside the Tower Pier and the captain delivers his “tax”.
If you find uranium and don’t report it in writing within three months, you’ve broken the law.
You’ll have to reveal the site of your discovery in your report too. It’s all in the Atomic Energy Act, 1945.