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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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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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    Legal Car Flamethrowers
    Legal Car Flamethrowers
    South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to cars to repel car jackers.
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    China Afforrestation
    China Afforrestation
    In 1981, the Chinese government passed a resolution that makes it a duty of every citizen over the age of 11 to plant at least one tree per year.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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