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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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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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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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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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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