Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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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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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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