Law and Crime Facts

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    The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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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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    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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    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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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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