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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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    The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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    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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    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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