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    The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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    Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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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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    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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    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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