In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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