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BREAKINGRio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil

December 2025 — The Brazilian town of Rio Claro repeals an 1894 resolution banning the sale of watermelon, 130 years on.

At the time, fruit was believed to spread disease.
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ブラジルのリオ・クラロ市が、1894年に定めた「スイカの販売を禁ずる」決議を、130年ぶりに廃止した。

In December 2025 the municipal council of Rio Claro, in the interior of São Paulo state in southern Brazil, repealed a resolution, made in 1894, that banned the sale of watermelon.

The original resolution, dated 30 November 1894, forbade the sale of watermelon and other fruit thought to harm public health, with a fine of 5,000 réis. Epidemics were frequent at the time, and such fruit was believed to spread disease.

The repeal was proposed by councillor Julinho Lopes, of the Progressistas party; the old rule, it was said, no longer matched common sense and had lost its force. The handwritten original is still kept in the town's public archive.

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