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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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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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