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 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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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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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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