In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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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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