In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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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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There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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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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