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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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    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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    The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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    In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
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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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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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