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    16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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    Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
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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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    Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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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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