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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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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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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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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