In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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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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