In 1995, a man named Shawn Nelson stole a tank from the US Army and took it for a joyride on a highway in California.
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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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