Law and Crime Facts

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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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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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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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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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    Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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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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