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.
2
Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
7
South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
-1
It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
41
Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
46
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).
-177
Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
24
Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
68