16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
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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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According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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