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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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    In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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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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    Whipping Tom
    Whipping Tom
    In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
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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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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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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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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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