A legal loophole in the UK allows alcohol to be sold without a license on a train in motion. An unlicensed distillery exploited this by setting up in a disused railway building, obtaining a steam train, and selling gin to customers while they road it back and forth from the distillery.
Author: Weirdo
Underneath the streets of Beijing…
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Two nuns teaching at a California…
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A car dealership ran an…
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A modern art critic was…
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Charlie Chaplin made…
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The last Blockbuster on earth…
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Left-handed people’s brains…
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