Law

In 1981, the Reagan administration in the USA tried to classify ketchup as a vegetable to meet school lunch nutritional standards after cutting budgets. The backlash slogan "Is ketchup a vegetable?" became so powerful that the policy was reversed.

In 2024, an Indiana court in the USA ruled that tacos and burritos are "Mexican-style sandwiches." A taco shop owner had fought a lawsuit for about 18 months to open a second location on land restricted to "sandwich bar-style restaurants."

In 1800, Paris enacted an ordinance banning women from wearing trousers. The law was technically enforced until 2013, with amendments in 1892 and 1909 allowing trousers only while holding bicycle handlebars or horse reins.

Across diverse numerical data—bank balances, populations, prices—the first digit is most often 1 and least often 9. This is known as Benford's law, and accounting records that deviate from this pattern may indicate fraud.