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🗞️The last one for today... I don't know why, but I really liked this article. You understand how much they value following the rules, even when those rules no longer make any sense)
👑About, probably, the quirkiest rent in the world. Every year the City of London hands the king 6 huge horseshoes, 61 a nail and 2 knives for the right to use two plots of land.
The ceremony has been recorded since at least 1211. Exactly where those lands are, no one knows for sure anymore, but a royal official checks: a blunt knife must bend a hazel branch, a sharp one must cut it through.
In a common-law country a contract has outlived both its owners and the very addresses. Everyone understands it's nonsense. But, as one spectator said, “a splendid nonsense.”
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