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TIL that until 1980, the New Hebrides was an Anglo-French condominium, with two parallel bureaucracies, currencies, police, courts, and prisons - a unique form of government cynically known as “the Pandemonium.” Residents sometimes choose which justice system handled their case based on prison food.

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