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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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    In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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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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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).
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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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