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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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    North Korea Cannabis
    North Korea Cannabis
    The only country where cannabis is completely legal and du jure is North Korea.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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    Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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    If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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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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