16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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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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Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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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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