When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

Remove all the space between its atoms and Earth would be the size of a baseball.

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