It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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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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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).
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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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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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