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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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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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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