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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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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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    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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    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 2008, 500 truckloads of sand were stolen from a beach in Jamaica
    In 2008, a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this day.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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