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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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.
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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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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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