In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
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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 people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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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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