In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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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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Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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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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