In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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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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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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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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