In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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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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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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