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• [Government fact 1]  While Lucas was filming Star Wars in Tunisia, the Libyan government became worried about a military vehicle parked near the border. The Tunisian government, receiving threats of military mobilization, politely asked Lucas to move his Sandcrawler away from the border.

  Government, Movies source

• [Government fact 2]  The American Government tried to instill the values of home ownership in the American people with federal programs in 1917 to prevent the rise of communism as they believed people who owned their own homes had a stake in the capitalist system.

  Countries, Government source

• [Government fact 3]  In 1979, Albert Flick was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death while her daughter watched. He was released more than two decades later, but he was put behind bars again in 2007 for stabbing a woman with a fork and again in 2010 for assaulting a woman. Despite his record, the judge in the 2010 case cited his old age when sentencing Flick to about four years in prison, nearly half what prosecutors had recommended. After he was out of prison, in 2018, at the age of 77 Albert Flick was again convicted of the murder of another woman. He had fatally stabbed her outside a laundromat while her 11-year-old twin sons watched from a few feet away.

  Crime, Death, Government, People source

• [Government fact 4]  In 2005, a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parliament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine.

  Drugs, Government source

• [Government fact 5]  There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land.

  Government, Politics, Sports

• [Government fact 6]  In 1914, the Puerto Rican Congress voted unanimously for independence from the United States. The US Government ignored the vote.

  Government, Politics source

• [Government fact 7]  The government of Nazi Germany memorialized the victims of European witch trials of the 16th to 18th centuries, as they thought witchcraft represented the remnant of an indigenous "Aryan" religion untainted by the Judaic influence of Christianity.

  Government, Nazi source

• [Government fact 8]  Chemical weapons were found for real in Iraq during the First and the Second Gulf War which resulted in Saddam Husain’s execution. US government was just too embarrassed to admit it at that time because it helped in the production of those chemical weapons. The USA always knew Saddam had chemical weapons, though they were not the Weapons of Mass Destruction over which the USA went to war with Iraq in 2003. The USA was concerned about new chemical, biological, and worse nuclear weapons, none of which was found and that’s why the story didn't explode.

  Countries, Government, Weapons source

• [Government fact 9]  The government of Nazi Germany memorialized the victims of European witch trials of the 16th to 18th centuries, as they thought witchcraft represented the remnant of an indigenous "Aryan" religion untainted by the Judaic influence of Christianity.

  Government, Nazi, Religion source

• [Government fact 10]  The HIV/AIDS conspiracy theory in which the disease was manufactured by the US government, was actually a KGB misinformation campaign, Operation INFEKTION

  Countries, Disease, Government source

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