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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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    16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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    Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
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    Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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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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    The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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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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