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    Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft.com
    Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft.com
    Microsoft once sued a student named Mike Rowe for registering the domain 'MikeRoweSoft.com'.
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    Pretty Boy Floyd
    Pretty Boy Floyd
    A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd reportedly destroyed mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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    Self-Trolling
    Self-Trolling
    A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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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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    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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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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