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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There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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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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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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