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 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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