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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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    In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    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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    The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
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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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    South Korea has banned under 16s from playing online games between midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
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