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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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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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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Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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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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