In 1995, a man named Shawn Nelson stole a tank from the US Army and took it for a joyride on a highway in California.
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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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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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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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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