Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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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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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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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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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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