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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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    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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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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    Pretty Boy Floyd
    Pretty Boy Floyd
    A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd reportedly destroyed mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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    Missing Plane
    Missing Plane
    In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. Despite a worldwide search, it still has not been found.
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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 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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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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