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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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    Missing Plane
    Missing Plane
    In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. Despite a worldwide search, it still has not been found.
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    China Afforrestation
    China Afforrestation
    In 1981, the Chinese government passed a resolution that makes it a duty of every citizen over the age of 11 to plant at least one tree per year.
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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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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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    There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
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    Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
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