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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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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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    Fines in Finland
    Fines in Finland
    In Finland, fines are income-based. In 2002, a Nokia executive received a US$103,000 speeding ticket.
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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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    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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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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    In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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