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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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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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    Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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    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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    South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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