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by Vince Moravek
In the late 1890s, soda pop was a new invention and many
people considered it as sinful as liquor. Evanston, Illinois
passed a law saying it was illegal to drink soda on Sundays
because preachers felt sinners would spend the Sabbath in
soda parlors instead of church. To get around this law, the
Sundae was invented: take an ice cream soda and remove the
soda and you have a sundae. It was originally spelled Sunday
but was changed to avoid being sacrilegious.
"So, what are you in for kid?"
by Vince Moravek
In 1699, Czar Peter I of Russia ordered all
men to shave their beards. Those who did not had to pay a
beard tax. Some people surmise that the reason for this law
was that the Czar was unable to grow a beard himself.
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