No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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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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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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