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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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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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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A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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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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