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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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    South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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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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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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