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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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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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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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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