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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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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