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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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    Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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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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    Unique Prison in Brazil
    Unique Prison in Brazil
    There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.
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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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