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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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    Self-Trolling
    Self-Trolling
    A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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    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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    Unique Prison in Brazil
    Unique Prison in Brazil
    There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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