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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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    Legal Car Flamethrowers
    Legal Car Flamethrowers
    South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to cars to repel car jackers.
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    Unique Prison in Brazil
    Unique Prison in Brazil
    There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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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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    Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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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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