It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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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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According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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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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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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