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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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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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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    IRS: Criminals legally required to declare illegal income on tax return
    According to the IRS, self-employed criminals are required to declare the source of their illegal income (like selling drugs) - and they can't prosecute for it!
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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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    In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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