In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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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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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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