The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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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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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 the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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