Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

    There are 50 Law and Crime Facts!

    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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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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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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    In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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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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