A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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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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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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