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• [Law fact 1] Hanging is the preferred means of suicide in most parts of the world.

  Death, Law

• [Law fact 2] In 2005, a German court upheld the right of citizens to flirt at work in response to Wal-Mart Germany’s policy banning any sign of attraction between its workers. The court said that such regulations may be acceptable in the US, but they are incompatible with German labor law and employees’ personal rights.

  Corporation, Countries, Lawsource

• [Law fact 3] In 1993 there was a proposal by a private company to build a giant advertising billboard in outer space that would appear roughly the same size and brightness as the moon. The project didn't meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisements in outer space.

  Law, Marketingsource

• [Law fact 4] A cannibal named Issei Sagawa has profited from his crimes. After murdering and eating his classmate in 1981, he was released due to a loophole. The Japanese wanted to detain him and the doctors even said he should be in prison, but they couldn't legally detain him without the court documents from France (his victim was a French citizen), which France refused to turn over. He has since then translated his fame into books, talk show appearances, and even softcore porn films in which he bites his co-stars.

  Death, Law, Peoplesource

• [Law fact 5] The voting age in Brazil is 16 and voting is mandatory for all literate people from 18 to 70.

  Countries, Lawsource

• [Law fact 6] In 1996, a bill was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.

  Music, People, Food, Lawsource

• [Law fact 7] In his landmark work Civilizations and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud states that civilizations are ruled by two opposing kinds of impulses, Eros (the drive for desire and love), and Thanatos (the drive towards destruction and death.”

  Death, Law

• [Law fact 8] Human bodies donated to science are often sold by for-profit corporations to medical schools, etc. Even though selling body parts is illegal in the U.S., the loophole is that the fee is for the “service” of procuring the bodies.

  Humanbody, Lawsource

• [Law fact 9] The Swiss Banking Act made it a criminal offense to disclose the account information and activity of Jewish clients to Nazi Germany affiliates during World War 2.

  Law, Warsource

• [Law fact 10] In 1996, a bill called the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.

  Food, Lawsource

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