Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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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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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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