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TIL: The colony of Virginia, run by the Virginia Company of London, published "Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall" in 1610-1611. One section required that cursing or speaking disrespectfully of the clergy or company officials be punishable by a bodkin (a type of needle) driven through the tongue.

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