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    In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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    In 2008, 500 truckloads of sand were stolen from a beach in Jamaica
    In 2008, a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this day.
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    Pretty Boy Floyd
    Pretty Boy Floyd
    A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd reportedly destroyed mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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    Unique Prison in Brazil
    Unique Prison in Brazil
    There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.
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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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    Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
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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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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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