Law and Crime Facts

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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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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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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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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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    A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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