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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 Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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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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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    Whipping Tom
    Whipping Tom
    In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
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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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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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