It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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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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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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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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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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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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