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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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    In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. Despite a worldwide search, it still has not been found.
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    In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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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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    Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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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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