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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About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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