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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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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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    Unique Prison in Brazil
    Unique Prison in Brazil
    There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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