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    There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
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    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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    In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
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    In 1995, a man named Shawn Nelson stole a tank from the US Army and took it for a joyride on a highway in California.
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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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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