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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South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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