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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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    In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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