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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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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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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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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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    Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
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    Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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    Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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