Worthless Facts

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Brazil

Primary educational books not written in Portuguese.

Indonesia

Books and periodicals printed in any Indonesian language and published outside of Indonesia, except educational books approved by the Indonesian Department of Commerce. Cloth and batik designs and sarongs. Cocoa leaves, dried, undried, or powdered. Indonesian national currency (rupiahs). Used articles including clothing.

Sweden, Switzerland, and Portugal

Lottery tickets and advertisements concerning lotteries.

Cambodia

Coins; banknotes; currency notes (paper money); securities payable to bearer; traveler’s checks; manufactured and unmanufactured platinum, gold, silver; precious stones; jewels; expensive jewelry; and other valuable articles.

Ireland

Hay, straw, including articles made of straw. Prison-made goods.

United Kingdom

Citizens Band Radios, walkie-talkies, microbugs, and radio microphones that are capable of transmitting on any frequency between 26.1 and 29.7 megacycles per second and 88 to 108 Mhz per second. Goods made in foreign prisons, except those imported for a non-commercial purpose or of a kind not manufactured in the UK. Horror comics and matrices.

Canada

Butane gas lighters and refill cartridges. Commercial tags of metal. Oleomargarine and other butter substitutes, including altered or renovated butter. Parcels bearing caution labels indicating the contents are flammable. Plumage and skins of wild birds. Prison-made goods being sold or intended for sale by a person or firm. Reprints of Canadian or British works copyrighted [...]

Israel

Agricultural tools and accessories. Blank invoices with headings. Cigarettes exceeding 600. Games of chance. Lottery tickets and advertisements. Organic fertilizers. Soil and sand. Spices exceeding 1 kg. Tropical and sub-tropical fresh fruit. Used beehives.

Vietnam

Invisible ink, codes, cyphers, symbols or other types of secret correspondence, and shorthand notes. Products made from non-Vietnamese tobacco. Radio transmitters and receivers and radio set accessories of any kind. Unused postage stamps. Used clothing, blankets, mosquito nets, and shoes.

China

Manuscripts, printed matter, photographic negatives, gramophone records, films, magnetic tapes, video tapes, etc., which could do political, economical, cultural, or moral harm to the People’s Republic of China. Meat and meat products. Radio receivers, transmitters or receivers of all kinds, walkie-talkies and parts thereof; valves, antennae, etc. Used clothing and bedding. Wrist-watches, cameras, television sets, [...]

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