Law and Crime Facts

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    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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    Whipping Tom
    Whipping Tom
    In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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