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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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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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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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    Whipping Tom
    Whipping Tom
    In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
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