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March 19, 2026
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Top 5 Stupid Hanover Laws You've Potentially Already Broken

  1. It is illegal to tap your feet, nod your head or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern (frat), restaurant (Molly's) or cafe (One Wheelock?).
  2. Men wearing kilts must use female bathrooms.
  3. It is illegal to get drunk or have a picnic at a cemetery.
  4. Any common piper, fiddler, juggler or magician may be sentenced to jail (exact text of the law it's unclear).
  5. On Sundays, citizens may not go to the bathroom while looking up.

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