In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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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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There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
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