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 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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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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Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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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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About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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