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00:00It's illegal to keep an ice cream cone in your back pocket on Sundays in Georgia.

00:04Now that sounds like a strange law, doesn't it?

00:07Well, let me explain.

00:08It all has to do with horses.

00:11See, back in the day when horse-drawn carriages were a common sight on the streets of Atlanta,

00:17people would sneak ice cream cones into their back pockets to try and lure them away.

00:22You see, horses are naturally curious and they can smell delicious things from far away.

00:28So people thought that by hiding the ice cream in their back pocket,

00:31they could sneak up on a horse and then put the cone in front of its face to distract it

00:36while they either stole the horse or did something else with it.

00:40Can't quite remember what that something else was, but I think you get the picture.

00:44Well, this didn't go unnoticed for long.

00:46And eventually the police started pulling people over for trying to hide their ice cream cones in their back pockets.

00:52And in 1917, the Atlanta City Council passed an ordinance making it illegal to keep an ice cream cone in your back pocket on Sundays.

01:01The law was never enforced and it remained on the books until 2021 when it was finally repealed.

01:07But just to be safe, I wouldn't recommend trying to stick an ice cream cone in your back pocket anytime soon.

01:13Now here's another interesting fact about ice cream.

01:17Did you know that it was invented in the United States?

01:20That's right.

01:22Most people think that ice cream was invented in Italy,

01:24but it was actually invented in New York State by an Italian immigrant named Antonio Latoada.

01:30He combined gelato, which is Italian for ice cream,

01:34with American ingenuity to create the first waffle cone in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair.

01:40And the rest, as they say, is history.

01:44Georgia may be famous for its peaches, but it's also home to a surprising number of weird laws.

01:50From a law that makes it illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are driving

01:55to a law that makes it illegal to carry a concealed weapon into a church.

02:00The peach state has its share of quirky regulations.

02:04So what do you think about these laws?

02:06Do you think they're silly or do you think they make sense?

02:09Let me know in the comments below.

02:11And if you want to learn more about Georgia's weird laws, stay tuned for more videos.

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