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 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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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's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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