From telling you which side of the road to drive on to punishing people for stealing your iPhone,

the law is the rulebook that keeps ordered society from descending into chaos.

Laws have been laid down for hundreds of years, and some of them were seriously strange.

From banning crying at funerals to making Christmas illegal.

But while they may seem outdated, unbelievably some of them are still enforced today,

alongside even newer and wackier rules.

From fake mustache misdemeanors to poop emoji jail time,

it's time to take a look at the weirdest laws that have ever existed.

Now, in most parts of the world today, the rule is that you're considered innocent until proven

guilty. Over 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, they played the Uno reverse card on that assumption

and you were guilty until proven innocent. That's because they believed a truly innocent

person would never have been accused of a crime in the first place.

Worse still were the punishments. Instead of serving long sentences behind bars, those found

guilty could be exiled to Nubia and put to grueling work in the mines. Although most crimes

in ancient Egypt are still recognizable offenses today, such as theft and homicide.

Meanwhile, in ancient China, they had a whole series of peculiar laws to punish bizarre acts.

In their Yuan Dynasty that lasted from 1279 to 1368 AD, butchers had to be careful how they displayed their chickens,

as it was illegal to hang one upside down.

To do so was seen as disrespecting the emperor, whose zodiac sign was the rooster.

And while these days men like Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. want to appear taller,

in the ancient Ken Dynasty that ruled China from 221 to 206 BC, everyone wanted to be Danny DeVito's

height. According to the 18 laws of Ken, men under 4 feet 11 and women under 4 feet 8 couldn't be

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