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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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    The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).
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    Fines in Finland
    Fines in Finland
    In Finland, fines are income-based. In 2002, a Nokia executive received a US$103,000 speeding ticket.
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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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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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