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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In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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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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There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
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In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
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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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