The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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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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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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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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The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
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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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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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